Apartament architekta w centrum Bejrutu - Andreas Von Einsiedel
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Architect Bernard Khoury returned to his home town Beirut in the 90's full of optimism and hope for the reconstruction of the city after fifteen years of crushing civil war. 'Beirut to me was the most interesting laboratory in the world, the most dynamic city on earth' he explains but his dream to be part of the promised culturally sensitive and appropriate reconstruction never quite happened. 'In fact,' he says, 'I believe that the disillusion and the outcome of the conflict has been more problematic than the conflict itself.' Khoury (47) studied architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design and gained a Masters in Architectural Studies from Harvard University. He is the co-founder of the Arab Centre for Architecture and established his own practice in 1993. He talks solemnly of the planned rebuilding of Beirut by the nation and how it was intended to create a noble and sophisticated capital in the Middle East but through a combination of power, politics and violence it has not happened. The private sector took over, competitions ceased and no public debate was held. Work was hard to come by and Khoury made his name by building impermanent clubs and restaurants; The B018, Yabani and Centrale. Innumerable defeats and aborted projects were caused by his resistance to the prevailing poor standards where only financial viability ruled and lacklustre inappropriate design was the norm. Beirut was and is being crammed with gloomy introverted apartment buildings with poorly ventilated interiors and dusty little balconies. The building boom continues and Khoury moves on, now with an international following partly driven by a desire to completely re-evaluate housing standards and his ability to create alliances with like-minded entrepreneurs one of whose projects Khoury decided would be the perfect platform to create his own home.
2015-04-27
EAST NEWS
Andreas Von Einsiedel
Andreas von Einsiedel
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