Open AccessCity architecture after war: a study of the impact of the war event on the architecture of the city of Mosul
Author(s) -
Abdullah Saadoon Salman,
Anwar Fadhil,
Haidar Adnan Nassif,
Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/779/1/012046
Subject(s) - demise , architecture , event (particle physics) , spanish civil war , history , identity (music) , genealogy , law , political science , art , aesthetics , archaeology , physics , quantum mechanics
The research discusses the impact of the events represented in the act of war that occurs on the urban system of cities, which leads to a forced shift in its morphology due to the collapse of important landmarks after the end of the event. The urban programs work with cities destroyed by wars with them in terms of commitment and liberation in a way that restores the identity to the place and is restore the life that was lost due to the war. Or urban programs work to forge new relationships whose basis is the new positions that emerged after the war, and which constitute a new history for the city. The new urban positions carry a double architectural value, because they express two important events: the first in considering it a distinctive landmark that was essential in the emergence of the city, the second, considering this landmark was affected by the war, which led to its demise or losing a large part of its elements. The research problem arose in the presence of the need to activate and revive the landmarks and sites on which the city was formed and the places affected by the act of war, in a way that the recipient can read the event of the war in the city’s architecture, and the research aims at reading the war event in the city’s architecture and the strategies that integrate the archaic sites with the sites produced by the event of the war.