Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability

Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability - Paperback

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Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability - Paperback

Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability - Paperback

by Eyal Weizman
$45.00
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Book Overview

In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UN.

Beyond shedding new light on human rights violations and state crimes across the globe, Forensic Architecture has also created a new form of investigative practice that bears its name. The group uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction, as well as to cross-reference a variety of evidence sources, such as new media, remote sensing, material analysis, witness testimony, and crowd-sourcing.

In Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, the group's founder, provides, for the first time, an in-depth introduction to the history, practice, assumptions, potentials, and double binds of this practice. The book includes an extensive array of images, maps, and detailed documentation that records the intricate work the group has performed.

Included in this volume are case studies that traverse multiple scales and durations, ranging from the analysis of the shrapnel fragments in a room struck by drones in Pakistan, the reconstruction of a contested shooting in the West Bank, the architectural recreation of a secret Syrian detention center from the memory of its survivors, a blow-by-blow account of a day-long battle in Gaza, and an investigation of environmental violence and climate change in the Guatemalan highlands and elsewhere.

Weizman's Forensic Architecture, stunning and shocking in its critical narrative, powerful images, and daring investigations, presents a new form of public truth, technologically, architecturally, and aesthetically produced. Their practice calls for a transformative politics in which architecture as a field of knowledge and a mode of interpretation exposes and confronts ever-new forms of state violence and secrecy.
ISBN9781935408871
Author Eyal Weizman
PublisherZone Books
GenreNews & politics, Education, and Design
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages368
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Eyal Weizman is the founder and director of Forensic Architecture and professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where in 2005 he founded the Centre for Research Architecture. In 2007, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, he established the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. He is the author of numerous books and has held positions in universities worldwide including Princeton, ETH Zurich, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Ines Weizman, born in Leipzig, Germany, is the head of PhD Programme at the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art in London. Since 2022 she is also professor of architectural theory and design at the Academy of Fine Arts, Institute for Art and Architecture in Vienna. She is the founding director of the Centre for Documentary Architecture, an interdisciplinary research collective of architectural historians, filmmakers, and digital technologists. Among her most recent publications are Dust&Data: Traces of the Bauhaus across 100 Years, Documentary Architecture/ Dissidence through Architecture, and Joséphine Baker across the Colonial Modern.

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