Building for Hope: Towards an Architecture of Belonging

This new book by Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni, seeks to understand how cities and buildings-scarred by conflict, blight, and pandemic-can be healed through design and urban mindfulness.

When Marwa al-Sabouni published Battle for Home in 2016, she was a little-known architect, living in battle-ravaged Homs, Syria, unable to practice her profession. She turned her fierce intelligence to chronicling how her city and country were undone through decades of architectural mismanagement and mis...