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Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory | FAST

  • The Foundation
  • About us
  • Publications and Press
  • Exhibitions
  • Lectures and Public Events
  • Network and contributors
  • Grants and Awards
  • Contact
  • Projects
    • Agdam – Barda: Along the borders of Azerbaijan and Armenia
      • BARDA BOUNDARIES
      • EXTREME MAKE-OVER IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS: The reconstruction of post-Soviet Karabakh
    • Amsterdam North Infographic
    • Amsterdam West
    • Archive of displacement
    • Atlas of the Conflict, Israel – Palestine
    • Border Ecologies Exhibition at The Harvard Graduate School of Design
    • BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions
      • BLUE ACCOUNTS
      • Design for Legacy
      • BLUE publication
      • BLUE in the press
    • Design for Legacy initiative
      • Design for Legacy: 2017 Future Force Conference
      • Greening Peacekeeping: The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations (Policy paper)
    • Drones and Honeycombs
      • Drones
      • Compounds
      • Missions
    • George Orwell drives on road #6
    • Ghost Town
    • Golden Heart Pavilion: First community building for Ein Hawd
    • Green Zone Red Zone, the Hague
    • Hotel Abkhazia
    • Lectures Harvard GSD
    • New Map of Tbilisi
    • Object, Tbilisi
    • One Land and Platform Paradise
    • One Land Two Systems Magazine
    • Oxidized city: Trip to Rustavi, Georgia
    • The first top-down Palestinian city
    • Reconstruction of Memory
      • Lifta after zionist planning
      • Conference: Reconstruction of Memory
      • Report: Reconstruction of Memory
      • Interview with Yakoub Odeh: Memories and hope to return
      • Interview with Khaldun Bshara: Preservation under occupation
      • Interview with Andrew Herscher: Violence, Destruction and International Law
      • Politics of cultural heritage: Mapping the distribution of UNESCO sites across the world
    • Retreat
    • Territoria
    • UNMANNED: Architecture and Security Series (Books)
      • Drone
    • Village (Book)
      • No one asked me to come
      • Ghost Town
    • Where is Israel?
    • Zoo, or the letter Z, just after Zionism
    • ^Occupied

The Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory is an architectural think-tank that works on the intersection between architecture, planning, and human rights. FAST seeks to improve the quality of the built environment and people’s livelihoods in conflict areas. FAST projects include the award-winning book 'Atlas of the Conflict: Israel-Palestine' and 'BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions,' the 2016 Dutch entry to the Venice Architecture Biennale. FAST is led by Malkit Shoshan.

  • The Foundation
  • About us
  • Publications and Press
  • Exhibitions
  • Lectures and Public Events
  • Network and contributors
  • Grants and Awards
  • Contact
  • Projects
    • Agdam – Barda: Along the borders of Azerbaijan and Armenia
      • BARDA BOUNDARIES
      • EXTREME MAKE-OVER IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS: The reconstruction of post-Soviet Karabakh
    • Amsterdam North Infographic
    • Amsterdam West
    • Archive of displacement
    • Atlas of the Conflict, Israel – Palestine
    • Border Ecologies Exhibition at The Harvard Graduate School of Design
    • BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions
      • BLUE ACCOUNTS
      • Design for Legacy
      • BLUE publication
      • BLUE in the press
    • Design for Legacy initiative
      • Design for Legacy: 2017 Future Force Conference
      • Greening Peacekeeping: The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations (Policy paper)
    • Drones and Honeycombs
      • Drones
      • Compounds
      • Missions
    • George Orwell drives on road #6
    • Ghost Town
    • Golden Heart Pavilion: First community building for Ein Hawd
    • Green Zone Red Zone, the Hague
    • Hotel Abkhazia
    • Lectures Harvard GSD
    • New Map of Tbilisi
    • Object, Tbilisi
    • One Land and Platform Paradise
    • One Land Two Systems Magazine
    • Oxidized city: Trip to Rustavi, Georgia
    • The first top-down Palestinian city
    • Reconstruction of Memory
      • Lifta after zionist planning
      • Conference: Reconstruction of Memory
      • Report: Reconstruction of Memory
      • Interview with Yakoub Odeh: Memories and hope to return
      • Interview with Khaldun Bshara: Preservation under occupation
      • Interview with Andrew Herscher: Violence, Destruction and International Law
      • Politics of cultural heritage: Mapping the distribution of UNESCO sites across the world
    • Retreat
    • Territoria
    • UNMANNED: Architecture and Security Series (Books)
      • Drone
    • Village (Book)
      • No one asked me to come
      • Ghost Town
    • Where is Israel?
    • Zoo, or the letter Z, just after Zionism
    • ^Occupied

The Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory is an architectural think-tank that works on the intersection between architecture, planning, and human rights. FAST seeks to improve the quality of the built environment and people’s livelihoods in conflict areas. FAST projects include the award-winning book 'Atlas of the Conflict: Israel-Palestine' and 'BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions,' the 2016 Dutch entry to the Venice Architecture Biennale. FAST is led by Malkit Shoshan.

EXTREME MAKE-OVER IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS: The reconstruction of post-Soviet Karabakh

‘The old is dying, the new is struggling to be born, and in the interregnum, there arise many morbid symptoms.’

A. Gramsci

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Published in Volume n.11 ‘Cities Unbuilt’ (2006)