‘Rebuilding lives’

Most important and actual article by Achille Mbembe at E-FLUX Architecture: referring to the consequences and needs to act upon devastation and ruin where it – as always – concerns human lives and dwelling.

“In these hallucinatory times, architecture is about rebuilding lives. It is about the restoration of livelihoods and the provision of shelter for those who, having lost everything and, having been left homeless, “can be at home only in their bodies.”(..)”Architecture becomes a rubble clearance project so that the destitute will have safer shelter as they begin to rebuild their lives.”

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/insurgent-geologies/667520/on-diminishment-i-architecture-and-the-shelter-rubble-dust-continuum