dogwalkingwithdougpart2
Sunday, September 6, 2026
The Bauhaus architect Arieh Sharon plan for the Zionist occupation of Palestinian land was based on the Theory of Central Places by German geographer Walter Christaller used in the Nazi colonization and occupation.
I remember my uncle who migrated to Kibbutz Gadot saying I couldn't possibly understand it without living there. I understand now, from afar, reading Ungrounded: The Architecture of Genocide.
Bauhaus in the Negev. An architect born in Ukraine, Shmuel Mestechkin, studied at the Bauhaus school and went back to Palestine to design the kibbutzim, wall and tower settlements that became the archetypes for Zionist settler-colonialism. He signed the master plan for the pentagonal Zionist settlement, superimposed over ungrounded Palestinian land, in 1949.
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After erasing the existence if the Indigenous inhabitants, on which they modeled their habits, settlers start imagining themselves as the real natives.
Eyal Weizman
Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide
Saturday, September 5, 2026
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