Professor Eyal Weizman

In his research, Eyal forensically examines human rights violations using architectural, visual and aural techniques.

Staff details

Position

Professor of Spatial & Visual Cultures

Department

Visual Cultures

Email

e.weizman (@gold.ac.uk)

Website

http://forensic-architecture.org

Eyal Weizman is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2010 he founded the research agency Forensic Architecture and directs it ever since. The work of the agency is documented in the exhibition and book FORENSIS (Sternberg, 2014), as well as in Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability (Zone/MIT, 2017) and in numerous exhibitions world wide. In 2007 he set up, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. This work is documented in the book Architecture after Revolution (Sternberg, 2014). In 2013 he designed a permanent folly in Gwangju, South Korea which was documented in the book The Roundabout Revolution (Sternberg, 2015). His other books include The Conflict Shoreline (Steidl and Cabinet, 2015), Mengele’s Skull (Sternberg, 2012), The Least of all Possible Evils (Verso, 2011), Hollow Land (Verso, 2007), A Civilian Occupation (Verso, 2003). Weizman is on the editorial board of Third Text, Humanity, Cabinet and Political Concepts and is on the board of directors of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) and on the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. He previously sat on the advisory boards of the ICA in London and B’Tselem in Jerusalem, amongst others. He graduated in architecture in 1998 from the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium/Birkbeck College in 2006.

Publications and research outputs

Book

Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth Fuller, Matthew and Weizman, Eyal. 2021. Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth. London: Verso. ISBN 9781788739085
Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability Weizman, Eyal. 2017. Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability. Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books. ISBN 9781935408864
The Roundabout Revolutions Weizman, Eyal. 2015. The Roundabout Revolutions. Berlin: Sternberg. ISBN 978-3-95679-098-0

Edited Book

Forensic Architecture Reports #1: The Police Shooting of Mark Duggan Najafi, Sina and Weizman, Eyal, eds. 2021. Forensic Architecture Reports #1: The Police Shooting of Mark Duggan. Brooklyn, NY / London: Cabinet Books / Institute of Contemporary Art London. ISBN 9781932698855
Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth Weizman, Eyal, ed. 2014. Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth. Berlin: Sternberg. ISBN 978-3-95679-011-9
A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture Segal, Rafi; Tartakover, David and Weizman, Eyal, eds. 2003. A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture. London; New York: Verso. ISBN 9781859845493

Edited Journal

Mengele’s Skull: Special Issue of Cabinet Journal Keenan, Thomas and Weizman, Eyal, eds. 2011. Mengele’s Skull: Special Issue of Cabinet Journal, Cabinet, (43).

Book Section

Archaeology, Architecture and the Politics of Verticality Weizman, Eyal. 2023. Archaeology, Architecture and the Politics of Verticality. In: Ian Parker, ed. For Palestine: Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, pp. 123-142. ISBN 9781805110262
Dheisheh (Cisjordanie). Retours. Penser le futur dans l’extraterritorialité (un projet architectural) Hilal, Sandi; Petti, Alessandro and Weizman, Eyal. 2014. Dheisheh (Cisjordanie). Retours. Penser le futur dans l’extraterritorialité (un projet architectural). In: Michel Agier, ed. Un monde de camps. Paris: La Découverte. ISBN 9782707183224
Holey Land Weizman, Eyal. 2014. Holey Land. In: Stephen Shore, ed. Stephen Shore: From Galilee to the Negev. London; New York: Phaidon. ISBN 9780714867069

The Matter of Memory Weizman, Eyal. 2013. The Matter of Memory. In: Adrián Villa Roja and Sophie O'Brien, eds. Today We Reboot the Planet: Adrián Villar Rojas catalogue. London: Serpentine Galleries. ISBN 9781908617156
The Image is the Bone Weizman, Eyal. 2013. The Image is the Bone. In: Thomas Keenan and Tirdad Zolghadr, eds. The Human Snapshot. Berlin: Sternberg Press. ISBN 978-3-943365-63-4
The Morning After: Profaning colonial Architecture Weizman, Eyal; Hilal, Sandi and Petti, Alessandro. 2012. The Morning After: Profaning colonial Architecture. In: Meg McLagan and Yates McKee, eds. Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism. New York: Zone Books. ISBN 978-1-935408-24-6
Forensic Architecture Weizman, Eyal. 2012. Forensic Architecture. In: Meg McLagan and Yates Mckee, eds. Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Non-Governmental Activism. New York: Zone Books. ISBN 978-1-935408-24-6
Forensic Architecture Weizman, Eyal. 2012. Forensic Architecture. In: David Chipperfield; Kieran Long and Shumi Bose, eds. Common Ground: A Critical Reader. Venice: Marsilio. ISBN 978-88-3171-435-8
Mobilizing Dissent: The Possible Architecture of the Governed’ Weizman, Ines and Weizman, Eyal. 2012. Mobilizing Dissent: The Possible Architecture of the Governed’. In: C. Greig Crysler; Stephen Cairns and Hilde Heynen, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory. London; Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781446282632
The 1:1 Map Weizman, Eyal. 2010. The 1:1 Map. In: Mark Godfrey and Karl Biesenbach, eds. Francis Alys: A Story of Deception. Tate. ISBN 9781854378408
Forensic Architecture Schuppli, Susan; Weizman, Eyal and Tavares, Paulo. 2010. Forensic Architecture. In: Adrian Lahoud and Charles Rice, eds. Post-Traumatic Urbanism: Architectural Design. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 58-63. ISBN 978-0470744987
Humanitarian Support Weizman, Eyal and Brauman, Rony. 2009. Humanitarian Support. In: Céline Condorelli, ed. Support Structures. Berlin: Sternberg. ISBN 978-1-933128-45-0

Article

‘It’s an Act of Murder’: How Europe Outsources Suffering as Migrants Drown Heller, Charles; Pezzani, Lorenzo; Mann, Itamar; Moreno-Lax, Violeta and Weizman, Eyal. 2018. ‘It’s an Act of Murder’: How Europe Outsources Suffering as Migrants Drown. New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331
On Forensic Architecture: A Conversation with Eyal Weizman Bois, Yve-Alain; Feher, Michel; Foster, Hal and Weizman, Eyal. 2016. On Forensic Architecture: A Conversation with Eyal Weizman. October(156), pp. 116-140. ISSN 0162-2870
The walls have eyes: Buildings reveal the conflict they witness (Interview) Weizman, Eyal. 2016. The walls have eyes: Buildings reveal the conflict they witness (Interview). New Scientist, ISSN 0262-4079

Conference or Workshop Item

Socializing Evidence Weizman, Eyal; Varvia, Christina; Krämer, Elisabeth; Andritsou, Dimitra; Franke, Anselm and Kaleck, Wolfgang. 2021. 'Socializing Evidence'. In: Socializing Evidence. Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany 9 October 2021.
On Archives Hameed, Ayesha and Weizman, Eyal. 2009. 'On Archives'. In: Museum of non Participation. no.w.here, London, United Kingdom 2009.

Digital

Forensic Architecture: The Place of Law in War Weizman, Eyal. 2011. Forensic Architecture: The Place of Law in War.

Exhibition Catalogue

Forensic Architecture - Witnesses Kallehauge, Mette Marie; Jørgensen, Lærke Rydal; Kjeldsen, Kjeld; Weizman, Eyal and Varvia, Christina. 2022. Forensic Architecture - Witnesses.
Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics Weizman, Eyal. 2017. Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics.

Film/Video

The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar Varvia, Christina; Levidis, Stefanos; Andritsou, Dimitra; San, Kishan; Abuzaid, Nour; Conte, Lola; Nankivell, Sarah; Trafford, Robert and Weizman, Eyal. 2020. The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar.

Project

The Long Duration of a Split Second Weizman, Eyal. 26 September 2018 - 6 January 2019 The Long Duration of a Split Second.

Show/Exhibition

Investigative Commons Weizman, Eyal; Varvia, Christina; Krämer, Elisabeth; Andritsou, Dimitra; Franke, Anselm and Kaleck, Wolfgang. 2021. Investigative Commons. In: "Investigative Commons Exhibition", Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany, 28 May - 8 August 2021.
Forensic Architecture: True to scale Weizman, Eyal; Nankivell, Sarah; Varvia, Christina; Saraj, Sarah and Moafi, Samaneh. 2020. Forensic Architecture: True to scale. In: "Forensic Architecture: True to scale", Miami Dade College Museum of Art and Design (MOAD), United States, 20 February - 27 September 2020.
The Long Duration of a Split Second at Turner Prize 2018 Weizman, Eyal. 2018. The Long Duration of a Split Second at Turner Prize 2018. In: "Turner Prize 2018", Tate Britain, United Kingdom, 26 September 2018 - 6 January 2019.

Maps of Defiance: Documenting the Genocide of the Yazidi People in Northern Iraq at London Design Biennale 2018 Weizman, Eyal. 2018. Maps of Defiance: Documenting the Genocide of the Yazidi People in Northern Iraq at London Design Biennale 2018. In: "London Design Biennale 2018", Somerset House, London, United Kingdom, 4-23 September 2018.
Counter Investigations Weizman, Eyal. 2018. Counter Investigations. In: "Counter Investigations: Forensic Architecture", Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, United Kingdom, 7 March - 13 May 2018.
Forensic Architecture: Hacia una estética investigativa Weizman, Eyal. 2017. Forensic Architecture: Hacia una estética investigativa. In: "Forensic Architecture: Hacia una estética investigativa", Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico, 9 September - 30 December 2017.
77sqm_9:26min Weizman, Eyal; Varvia, Christina; Rowat, Simone and Levidis, Stefanos. 2017. 77sqm_9:26min. In: "Documenta 14", Neue Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany, 10 June - 19 September 2017.
Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics Weizman, Eyal. 2017. Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics. In: "Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics", Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain, 28 April - 15 October 2017.
Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics Weizman, Eyal. 2017. Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics. In: "Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics", MACBA, Barcelona, Spain, 28 April - 15 October 2017.
A World of Fragile Parts Weizman, Eyal. 2016. A World of Fragile Parts. In: "La Biennale di Venezia 2016", Applied Arts Pavilion, Venice, Italy, 28 May - 27 November 2016.
Forensic Architecture at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 Weizman, Eyal. 2016. Forensic Architecture at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. In: "Giardini della Biennale, La Biennale di Venezia", Venice, Italy, 28 May - 27 November 2016.
Crime Scenes | A Hundred Years of Photographic Evidence Dufour, Diane; Lebart, Luce; Delage, Christian and Weizman, Eyal. 2016. Crime Scenes | A Hundred Years of Photographic Evidence. In: "Crime Scenes | A Hundred Years of Photographic Evidence", Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 13 May - 21 August 2016.
The Urban-Data Complex Weizman, Eyal. 2015. The Urban-Data Complex. In: "Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture 2015", Shenzhen Public Art Center, Shenzhen, China, 4 December 2015 - 4 March 2016.
Burden of Proof: The Construction of Visual Evidence Weizman, Eyal and Varvia, Christina. 2015. Burden of Proof: The Construction of Visual Evidence. In: "Burden of Proof: The Construction of Visual Evidence", The Photographers' Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2 October 2015 - 10 January 2016.
Forensis Weizman, Eyal. 2015. Forensis. In: "Forensis", Fundación Proa (PROA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 25 September 2015 - 31 January 2016.
Images à charge, La construction de la preuve par l'image Weizman, Eyal. 2015. Images à charge, La construction de la preuve par l'image. In: "Images à charge, La construction de la preuve par l'image", LE BAL, Paris, France, 4 June - 30 August 2015.
Forensic Architecture in All of This Belongs to You, Victoria and Albert Museum Weizman, Eyal. 2015. Forensic Architecture in All of This Belongs to You, Victoria and Albert Museum. In: "All of This Belongs to You", Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, 1 April – 19 July 2015.
Forensis Weizman, Eyal. 2014. Forensis. In: "Forensis", Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany, 15 March - 5 May 2014.
Forensic Architecture in Insert2014 Weizman, Eyal. 2014. Forensic Architecture in Insert2014. In: "Insert2014", Mati Ghar, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India, 31 January - 28 February 2014.
Documentary Sculpture Weizman, Eyal. 2010. Documentary Sculpture. In: "The Architecture Biennale of Venice 2010", Venice, Italy.
The Destruction of Destruction Weizman, Eyal. 2010. The Destruction of Destruction. In: "antiphotojournalism", institute of the image, Spain.
Decolonizing Architecture Hilal, Sandi; Petti, Alessandro and Weizman, Eyal. 2008. Decolonizing Architecture. In: "Decolonizing Architecture", Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom, 2008-2013.
Territories Weizman, Eyal. 2003. Territories. In: "Territories", Kunst Werke and Walter Koenig Press, 6/1/2003 - 9/7/2003.

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