Reconstructing Territorial Identities: The case of the refugee settlements in Nicosia, Cyprus

One of the main results of Cyprus’s contemporary conflict is the Cypriot refugee identity creation. The thesis focuses on the Cypriot refugee settlements created from 1976 to 1991, unraveling the formation of the Greek Cypriot refugee community through space. The thesis project questions how community-led spatial planning allows the Cypriot...

"Augmented Sarajevo": Digitally Reconstructing War Heritage and the Sense of Place

The Siege of Sarajevo (1992-95) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, transformed the city into a landscape of ruins. One site of destruction was the Oslobođenje building, where Sarajevo’s daily newspaper was produced. Even though it was one of the first buildings shelled, it continued to be used during the siege as the newspaper was published daily from...

The phenomenon of expression in resort modernism of Soviet Lithuania: Western dream then, undesirable shadow now? Collective remembrance | national identity | “young” heritage

During thirty years of independent Lithuania, numerous iconic modern and postmodern buildings from the Soviet period had been demolished. Only in recent years architects and preservationists have started to protest and communicate the message of opposition to such activities but in most cases, it is too late to save an artifice.<br/>In the rich...

Het Stenen Hoofd

The first crematorium in the Netherlands was build in 1913, long before the official legalization of cremation (1955). Today, the Netherlands hold 72 crematoria. Almost all crematoria build in the Netherlands are situated outside the borders of the city it belongs to, losing the connection with its city. In an era of urbanisation, cities grow...