Who We Are

Architects for Gaza (AFG) is a collective of volunteer architects, urbanists, designers, planners, engineers, researchers, and built-environment professionals from Palestine and across the globe.

We have come togetherx in solidarity to contribute our professional and technical knowledge, skills, and experience towards supporting a just spatial future for Gaza and its community.

Our Approach

By working across disciplines and geographies, we create platforms for research by design. Meaningful reconstruction must foster community ownership, support self-build and enable residents to actively shape the future of their neighbourhoods and cities.

Our Aims

Through research, design, professional practice, and engagement, we offer a platform to rethink future scenarios for Gaza that cultivate hope and place people, communities, and local knowledge at the centre of recovery and reconstruction.

Statement

As architects, educators, planners, environmentalists and designers, we condemn the indefensible violence enacted on the Gaza Strip and its people. We call for an immediate permanent ceasefire and the rebuilding of Gaza in close collaboration with those displaced families. Innumerable lives that have already been lost cannot be restored, nor can suffering be wished away. Yet the people still living will need the means to survive. We thus call for the reinstatement of the essential services for water, electricity, fuel, telecommunications and food within the Gaza Strip.

The people of Gaza have a right to their city, their homes, their land. They have a right to rebuild their lives, within a free Palestine. In the longer term, entire urban areas will obviously need to be rebuilt. Houses and neighbourhoods will hence have to be reconstructed, and Gazan cities provided with all the services and facilities required for a high quality of life that is environmentally sustainable. More than these, the people of Gaza and Palestine more broadly will need a means to imagine a future, in a world transformed.

The international community of academics and professionals should stand strong to play a pivotal role in the reconstruction of Gaza. Together, in collaboration with its resilient residents, we can contribute to the restoration of lives, their homes, their neighbourhood and communities.

Call to Action: Architects for Gaza (December 2023)

Read the extended statement (Dec 04 2023) and call to action authored by Palestine Regeneration Team

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