I’m back. Graduated but need to study for my NCARB exams and LEED accreditation.
I spent the last 2 months trying to figure out what kind of designer I want to be. Found out that the site for one of my analysis projects at work in Gaza was decimated. It was a residential block. I think the oldest building was from the 30’s potentially 40’s. Most were 1960+ but I remember taking notes of where third spaces are present. Where people built community within the block and spent their time with their neighbors. It’s just gone? It feels weird to mourn something that was never mine.
It’s stupid of me to be sad a bunch of buildings are gone when millions of people are dying from this genocide. It makes me so angry and disgusted to watch my industry peers detach themselves and joke about “new contracts once this is all over” A whole culture and heritage point is being wiped clean along with the people who were meant to pass on their stories, and all the architecture industry has to say is “we can start fresh and build new”
I don’t even know where to begin for the people willingly staying on the encampment planning projects.