Al-khirba: Building Renewal While Preserving Community Value

The following text, “Al-khirba: Building renewal while preserving community value,” is an excerpt from L.E.FT Architects’ book At the Edge of Where God Built (Akhir ma ‘Ammar Allah) : Language, Concepts, Islamic Architecture (Figure 1). L.E.FT, a bilingual practice run by Makram el Kadi and Ziad Jamaleddine and positioned between Beirut and New York, explores the ambiguities of Arabic spatial…