Bernasconi opposes wars erasing cities and advocates architecture as a means of maintaining peace.

Ekaterina Karpukhina

Architect Boris Bernasconi has released a manifesto “Both War and Peace” dedicated to architecture and the destructive forces it opposes. It is based on a study containing a typology of ten different kinds of wars and ten bureau projects responding to these conflict challenges.

Bernasconi’s projects are dedicated to creating a new image of a world without war, a world of sustainable development, where the architect builds peaceful ties within the social environment with his statements. Architecture, in his opinion, should solve the problems of humanity: social, environmental and political.

The pacifist manifesto opposes wars and supports the redistribution of at least 1% of the military budget in favor of architecture and construction. To create new cities as the basis for long-term peacekeeping operations.

The manifesto became the starting point of the multi-year project “Both war and Peace”, which will include the first personal exhibition of the architect in Russia and the construction of the city by him.

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