Architecture and the Right to Heal

"Animated by a compelling ethos, Architecture and the Right to Heal challenges the limits of architectural discourse and extends cutting-edge debates in the global field of memory studies on restoration, transitional justice, and potential healing. It stands in a long tradition of critical enlightened thought and breaks new ground at the intersection of architecture, memory studies, human rights, and urban studies." - Andreas Huyssen, author of Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South

"By connecting architecture to regimes of power and domination as well as forms of resistance and repair, Esra Akcan's work provides a much-needed catalyst to stimulate greater dialogue about the consequences and ethics of architecture amongst practitioners, theorists, scholars, artists, and activists." - Mabel O. Wilson, author of Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums

"What is perhaps most surprising about Architecture and the Right to Heal, given its grim subject, is that at its core it retains optimism. Akcan is steadfast in her belief in a future not defined by the division and destruction of this history but by interconnection. This is not an imminent future, but by describing the spaces and ways of occupying them that could enable its realization, she renders it a possible one." - Izzy Kornblatt, Architectural Record