Minerva Partners

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what we do

Minerva Partners is active where the traditional built environment can contribute to community strengthening. Our work rests on a simple idea: familiar, efficient, and locally manageable environments promote stability.


how we work

Small, multidisciplinary, and globally connected, Minerva Partners makes long-term, intensive commitments to a few program areas at a time to ensure sound results. The decentralized, network-centered character of the organization increases overall efficiency and productivity for the client.

Currently our work revolves around three programmatic themes:

1. Post-conflict rehabilitation

2. Economic justification for cultural asset protection

3. Traditional building strategies applied to new construction

Each thematic area has generated research, fieldwork, institutional collaborations and publication; each agenda is designed to broaden the understanding of the way built environment conservation can contribute to social development worldwide

we work with...

  • Stari Grad Agency of Mostar
  • International Peace Research Institute, Oslo: Cyprus Center
  • Pratt Center for Community Development
  • Nicosia Master Plan Team, Cyprus

we're reading...

  • C.P. Snow: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
  • Gary W. Evans & Janetta Mitchell McCoy : When Buildings Don't Work: The Role of Architecture in Human Health
  • Lewis Hyde: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
  • R. Buckminster Fuller: Nine Chains to the Moon
  • F. William Engdahl: A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order
  • Dean MacCannell: The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
  • Herman E. Daly: For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
  • Fernand Braudel: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I: The Structure of Everyday Life
  • International Peace and Cooperation Center: Successful Jerusalem: Vision, Scenarios, and Strategies
  • Philip Misselwitz: City of Collision: Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism
  • Henri Bergson: Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
  • Meron Benvenisti: Jerusalem, the torn city
  • Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene
  • Bernard Rudofsky: Architecture Without Architects
  • Edward O. Wilson: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge