Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria

Domicide = the systematic and deliberate killing of home.

So much architectural response to war has focused on 'cultural heritage', the destruction of infrastructure, and of ancient architecture – here, Ammar Azzouz moves the focus somewhere more personal: the home. In Domicide, he uses the notion of the 'home' – his native city of Homs in Syria – to address the destruction of cities and the displacement of people both externally and internally during times of war, and to explore how cities ...