The launch of Bernard Khoury's book "Local Heroes", a book with a narrative component seldom encountered in architectural publishing, was not just a simple book-signing event. The Beirut Art Center hosted a panel in which the celebrated Lebanese architect held a public conversation with architecture critic and historian Luca Molinari and architecture professor George Arbid about the book's distinct approach. 

More a story through architecture than a story about architecture, "Local Heroes" was quite interesting to design: it presents a rare exercise in storytelling, in which the unfolding is as much about the politics of place and belonging, as it is about spectacular buildings.