Rupturing Architecture - Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq, 2003-2023

"This is the first book to critically and visually explore the incidental and improvised approaches that create spaces of protection from conflict and displacement. Written by an Iraqi architect, who has lived through wars and conflict and now resides in Britain, the book focuses on three different spheres of spatial practice - the domestic, the city and the fringes - combining textual analysis and interviews with Iraqi citizens with illustrative maps, drawings and photographs to offer a rounded analysis of spatial creativity as a result of the traumatic events that have impacted the region"-- Provided by publisher.

About the author

Sana Murrani is Associate Professor in Spatial Practice at the University of Plymouth, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Sana Murrani
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.04.2026
• EAN: 9781350325388
• ISBN: 978-1-350-32538-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Architecture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, ARCHITECTURE / Regional, Vernacular, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, ARCHITECTURE / Vernacular, Residential buildings, domestic buildings, Politics and government, Human Geography, Theory of architecture, City and town planning: architectural aspects