Architecture Remembers what Power wants us to Forget

Two years into Gaza’s genocide, amid headlines of a ceasefire that defers sovereignty, this essay argues that space is never neutral. Architecture can be weapon or witness, and designers face a choice: freeze injustice into place or help build futures worth returning to. With humility as allies, we set a professional agenda: no build without rights, Palestinian-led planning and governance, life-support urbanism first, reparative ecologies, and memory as building material. This is collaborative design for collective liberation.