Eyal weizman is an architect, professor of spatial and visual cultures, and founder and director of the research agency forensic architecture based at goldsmiths, university of london. Apr 11, 2020 architect eyal weizmans study of the built environment that sustains the hollow land examines several key moments in the transformation of the built. Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by israels colonial occupation from the tunnels of gaza to the. Written by admin on march 23, 2019 in relationship. Eyal weizman heads forensic architecture, whose investigations have led to arrests and resignations. The agency consists of architects, artists, filmmakers, journalists, software developers, scientists, lawyers, and an extended network of collaborators from a. Violence at the threshold of detectability, zone books, new york, 2017.
Since the 1993 oslo accord, the territorial arrangement of the west bank limited palestinians to enclosed territorial islands with israel controlling the subterrain the aquifers under them as well as. We will learn more about the way pillar of defence was conducted when, over the coming weeks, it becomes possible to start reading. The art of reflected intractability lund university publications. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Established and developed at goldsmiths, forensic architecture analyses international humanitarian law and human rights violations. In 2019 he was elected fellow of the british academy. Violence at the threshold of detectability negative positivism the new millennium began with a bizarre legal battle. Feb 25, 2018 forensic architecture founder and director eyal weizman. Walking through walls soldiers as architects in the israelipalestinian conflict eyal weizman. Forensic architecture is a multidisciplinary research group based at the university of london that uses architectural techniques and technologies to investigate cases of state violence and violations of human rights around the world. Israels 22day attack on gaza in december 2008january 2009 exposed a paradox.
Nov 26, 2012 eyal weizman in the lrb on israels strategies of spatial control over gaza and israels cynical, shocking legal acrobatics to consider a palestinian civilian in gaza as a voluntary human shield. Since 2010 he is the director of the research agency forensic architecture. Eyal weizman mbe fba born 1970 is a british israeli architect. Eyal weizman is professor of spatial and visual cultures at goldsmiths college, university of london and a global scholar at princeton university. Eyal weizman and books of destruction hidden cities. Humanitarian violence from arendt to gaza hardback common by by author eyal weizman groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning western humanitarian and military intervention.
In the least of all possible evils, eyal weizman examines the dark side of this pragmatism, arguing that too often the end becomes a mechanism for perpetuating the means. May 17, 2020 architect eyal weizmans study of the built environment that sustains the hollow land examines several key moments in the transformation of the built. The david irving trial, which unfolded at the english high court of justice between january and april 2000, involved one of the most aggressive crossexaminations of architectural evidencedrawings, models, aerial and ground. Eyal weizman on global politics and forensic architecture.
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Eyal weizman is professor of spatial and visual cultures and founding director of the centre for research architecture at goldsmiths, university of london. Eyal weizman has 31 books on goodreads with 3602 ratings. The organisations founder and director is eyal weizman, a britishisraeli architect. He is professor of spatial and visual cultures at goldsmiths, university of london and a founding director there of the centre for research architecture at the department of visual cultures, in 2005.
Eyal weizman born 1970 in haifa is a british israeli intellectual and architect. Forensic architecture towards an investigative aesthetics macba. Examining the damage following the 2010 bombardment, he pieces together the systematic process of destruction, revealing the political atrocity within the debris. May 11, 2020 eyal weizman introduces us to a new vocabulary to think about governance, politics, war and the durable impact of political projects on landscapes and human lives. The politics of verticality is the process that fragmented the territory of the west bank not only in surface but also in volume. The least of all possible evils by eyal weizman overdrive.
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Eyal weizman is professor of spatial and visual cultures, and director of forensic architecture. You think it will be theoretical and agonizingly abstracted from an unjust reality, but it is the opposite. The group is led by architect eyal weizman the agency develops new evidentiary techniques and undertakes advanced architectural and media research with and on behalf. Weizman traces the development of these ideas, from the influence of archaeology on urban planning, ariel sharons reconceptualization of military defense during the 1973 war, through the planning and architecture of the settlements, to contemporary israeli discourse and practice of urban warfare and airborne targeted assassinations. Traversing multiple scales and durations, the case studies in. Israels architecture of occupation eyal weizman on. In forensic architecture, eyal weizman, the groups founder, provides, for the first time, an indepthintroduction to the history, practice, assumptions, potentials, and double binds of this practice. The politics of verticality lh 200, the separation between israeli and palestinian areas tn the occupied. In this journey from the deep subterranean spaces of the west bank and gaza to their militarized airspace, eyal weizman unravels israels mechanisms of control and its transformation of the occupied territories into a theoretically constructed artifice, in which all natural and built features function as the weapons and ammunition with which. Artists who have engaged with boycott movements give their insight and words of caution. Eyal weizman eyal weizman is the founding director of forensic architecture and professor of spatial and visual cultures at goldsmiths, university of london, where he founded the centre for research architecture in 2005.
Jun 29, 2019 architect eyal weizmans study of the built environment that sustains the hollow land examines several key moments in the transformation of the built. The book includes an extensive array of images, maps, and detailed documentation that records the intricate work the group has performed. Those particular sets of conflicts had a particular. By by author eyal weizman the least of all possible evils. When we started around 2010, it was the beginning of the arab spring and the really heartbreaking civil war that came in its wake. Between 2014 and 2017 he was a global scholar at princeton.
Weizman traces a genealogy of the lesser evil, from classical ethics and christian theology, through the political theory of hannah arendt to contemporary debates on. In 2010 he founded the research agency forensic architecture and directs it ever since. A founder of forensic architecture, he is also a founding member of the architectural collective daar in beit sahourpalestine. Pdf forensic architecture download full pdf book download. Eyal weizman interview with aviv kokhavi, september 24, 2004, at an israeli military base near tel aviv. Its primary mission is research, to develop evidentiary. In exploring israels methods to transform the landscape and the. Humanitarian violence from arendt to gaza hardback. Read more about us bars entry to researcher who exposes israeli rights abuses. As eyal weizman shows in this brilliant exploration of forensic architecture, this can be seen in particular in the regime imposed upon gaza by the state of israel. Professor eyal weizman goldsmiths, university of london.
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