Syria the Making of the Future – from Urbicide to the Architecture of the City

Abstract

W.A.Ve. 2017 – Syria the Making of the Future focused the attention of the global architectural culture on the urbicide of Syrian cities and fully reaffirmed the membership of the country in the cultural heritage of humanity and the cosmopolitan responsibility for its reconstruction. W.A.Ve. 2017 was organised in Venice by Università Iuav di Venezia reaffirming its attention to the most critical events taking place in the world and its involvement in reconstruction, conservation, urban transformations of architecture. The W.A.Ve. 2017 – Syria the Making of the Future book series collects the results of the workshops, searching for local and global efforts in the process of reconstruction through the work of 1341 young students guided by 26 groups of professors.