From The Mountain to the Sea

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From The Mountain to the Sea

Architectural Excursions in the Lebanese Landscape

Ziad Jamaleddine, Makram el Kadi

The monograph follows the work of L.E.FT Architects, mirroring a presentation of a selection of the office’s Lebanese projects. In the 1960’s, Lebanon’s National Tourism Council promoted the slogan “From the mountain to the sea” as an advertisement of the country’s attractiveness and striking geographic characteristics. Soon, however, this frictionless landscape faltered, fracturing under the pressures of a long sectarian civil war, the subsequent period of reconstruction. Through thirteen of L.E.FT Architect’s Lebanese projects, located across an east-west isoline running from the mountain to the sea, the monograph interrogates the heroic mythologies of Lebanon’s landscape, reading them against experiential narratives from specific moments with an exploration of the geographic-historical narratives that have shaped Lebanon’s urban/rural divide and the socio-cultural and religious characteristics of its varied environments.

Publication date Size Format ISBN Printed · EN Price Feb 2023 6.7 x 9.4 in. / 17 x 24 cm Hardcover · 304 pages 978-1-63840-993-9 $44.95 / €40 / £ 40

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