WAR AND ARCHITECTURE: The Sarajevo window
Lebbeus woods wrote in his manifesto “Architecture is war, war is Architecture” as a response to the urgent situation in Sarajevo, Bosnia which was under a terrorist attack. Lebbeus at that time stated that it was clear that architecture was part of the problem. He wrote “snipers had turned streets into lethal shooting galleries and artillery gunners had turned ordinary buildings where people worked and lived into incendiary death traps” and as architecture was part of the problem also had to be part of the solution.
Lebbeus then started to consider how to repair damaged houses and offices in ways that embodied the elan of their inhabitants as well as kept out rain, snow and cold. Lebbeus aimed in his
Lebbeus woods wrote in his manifesto “Architecture is war, war is Architecture” as a response to the urgent situation in Sarajevo, Bosnia which was under a terrorist attack. Lebbeus at that time stated that it was clear that architecture was part of the problem. He wrote “snipers had turned streets into lethal shooting galleries and artillery gunners had turned ordinary buildings where people worked and lived into incendiary death traps” and as architecture was part of the problem also had to be part of the solution.
Lebbeus then started to consider how to repair damaged houses and offices in ways that embodied the elan of their inhabitants as well as kept out rain, snow and cold. Lebbeus aimed in his