Push to modernize takes toll on Kabul’s historical homes
By Stefanie Glinski, Thomson Reuters Foundation Published: Dec 10, 2020 Tucked in the Hindu Kush Mountains, Kabul has long been a city of traditional homes – many of them centuries old – made of mud and straw, and others built in the early 1900s, known…
Part 1 – Architecture & Afghanistan
The Difference Between Architecture and Engineering Half-a-century war and conflicts in Afghanistan have wiped out the definitions of architecture and engineering. In Persian (Dari), the term for an architect is (مهندس). When someone wants to build a house, they reach out to the architect. An…