Author(s): Mersiha Veledar
There is a bridge in the city I knew in my childhood, a bridge so breathtaking, one would not believe that within its many layers of smooth tenelia stone, there lie millions of eggshells tectonically binding what was once known as the widest arch in the world of that era. Having lived through the dissolution of the seven states that comprised the melting pot of former Yugoslavia and the 1992鈥1995 brutal genocide of Bosniaks in Mostar, a city of ancient bridge-keepers known as 鈥淢ostari,鈥 I鈥檝e directly witnessed the effects of man-made disasters as a strategic form of cultural erasure. This paper aims to critically explore my search towards 鈥榰niversality鈥 in the language of architecture vis-脿-vis a sequence of elemental typologies as the new design objective that could challenge and begin to heal variant sites that have endured political, economic and cultural injustices across the world.
Volume Editors
脕ngela Garc铆a de Paredes, I帽aqui Carnicero & Julio Salcedo-Fernandez
ISBN
978-1-944214-18-0