Landscapes of Leisure and Politics

Hosted at Mesarch Lab, with inputs from prominent architectural historians at Boston University (USA) and The Technion (Israel), LeisureScapes’s primary goal is to offer a rigorous historical and critical analysis of the architecture of tourism in Cyprus, in order to reflect on the intertwinement of tourist landscapes with multiple types of politics—precisely, social, ethnic, and environmental conflicts. Among its key objectives is to shape contributions to the architectural history of modernism; cast critical perspectives on the practice of architectural design and planning in contested areas; and provide new knowledge on the urban, environmental and heritage dimensions of tourism infrastructures/building. A principal dissemination activity of this project is the organisation of an international workshop which will take place in Nicosia in 2021.