Manifesto · AAD Arguments ’26
Beirut, a Chronic City
An architecture of resistance for a people whose claim to its ground is contested by displacement.
Written from New York, of Beirut, the manifesto reads the unfinished civil war, the 1994 conversion of the central district’s property into company shares, and the 2020 port explosion as one chronic condition rather than a series of exceptions. It refuses the tabula rasa, the moratorium and the exit from the human, and proposes architecture as the practice of holding: keeping evidence, maintenance and public claim continuously inhabitable, set out as four conditions and seven principles, each with its costs and an open question.
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