FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE/ NOTES FROM FIELDS AND FORUMS

This notebook is a philosophical and cultural-critical examination of Israels policy of occupation. The architect Eyal Weizman uses the term forensic, derived from the Latin forensis, forum, to reconstruct the history of attacks on and violations of buildings . Drawing from the fields of judicial medicine and psychiatry, Forensic Architecture serves in revisiting damaged Palestinian hous es and ruins. Weizman, who is a member of the collective Decolonizing Architecture, founded in 2007, describes Forensic Architecture as the archaeo...[Llegir més]