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This is a compelling compilation of essays by international architectural theorists on the relationship of violence to space. With the events of September 11th, the London bombings, the Madrid train explosions, and the daily blasts in Baghdad, the question of violence and terrorism is imposing architectural ramifications with renewed urgency. A new sense of architectural awareness has been forged as violence is forcing its place as an architectural datum.Wide-ranging contributions approach design issues related to violence through multiple angles and intersections.
We only need to flip casually through the repertoire of the built environment to realize that certain built structures (from concentration camps to separation walls, from jails to propaganda exhibitions, from slaughterhouses to suburban complexes, from illegal settlements to palaces) either sanction violence or give it a spatial ground to happen and thrive.

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• Introduction(p. 12)
• The Architecture of Violence: Mario Sironi and the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution(p. 19)
• Inscriptions of VioIence: London's Landscape of Commemoration(p. 53)
• Architecture as Exquisite Violence(p. 85)
• Towards an "Architecture of Cruelty": Mining the Spatial Speech of Antonin Artaud(p. 97)
• From Target to Witness: Architecture, Satellite Surveillance, Human Rights(p. 127)
• Construction Rites, Mimetic Rivalry, Violence(p. 149)
• The Topography of Fear: Architecture's Fourth Walls and Inside Frames(p. 175)
• Must Architecture Be Defended... The Critique of VioIence and Autotmmunity(p. 199)
• Heartless in HavenWorld™; or, The Bullet-Riddled Armor of the Suburbs(p. 219)
• Earth & Death: The Architecture of Gate Pa(p. 255)
• Index(p. 277)

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Bechir Kenzari is Associate Professor of Architecture at the UAE University. He holds a doctorate in Architecture from Georgia Tech and has lectured in the areas of philosophy, design, and digital fabrication. His interest in the theme of violence and architecture includes essays on Antoni Tapies, nomadic dwelling, and suburban violence in the French banlieues.