In a world fractured by war, power, and silence, buildings become memory-keepers, children the final storytellers—and it is we, the readers, who keep their stories alive.

Architecture is Book One in the Things That Matter, a chapbook series by Our Earthians Community Group, which opens a story archive of what was lost and found—and what still dares to bloom. Through poetic fragments, childlike prose, and art, it reimagines destroyed places as structures of grief, resilience, and hope. Interwoven with real-world facts and imagined voices, the writings and sketches explore war, conflict, and displacement as seen through the quiet aftermath of memory.

Together, these pieces form a quiet resistance—an invitation to remember, and to rebuild.