Architects Without Frontiers: War, Reconstruction and Design Responsibility

Esther Charlesworth, Architectural Press Elsevier, Oxford and Burlington, 2006

The promise of this book is profound: to highlight the mono-dimensional physical-focus of architect’s minds and offering a new vision of architects and design professional as 'mobile and collaborative agents' outside traditional sites and constructed environments. In doing so, the author examines practioners’ role in the design and re-assemblage of urban environments ravished by wars and social conflicts resulting...