Forensic Architecture

Forensic Architecture
Author :
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 361
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781935408178
ISBN-13 : 1935408178
Rating : 4/5 (178 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Forensic Architecture by : Eyal Weizman

Download or read book Forensic Architecture written by Eyal Weizman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Forensic Architecture Related Books

Forensic Architecture
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Eyal Weizman
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-01 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

GET EBOOK

In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human
Major Events of the Nuclear Age
Language: en
Pages: 604
Authors: Erik V. Nordheim
Categories: Astronautics and civilization
Type: BOOK - Published: 1967 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Violence and Civility
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Étienne Balibar
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-19 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

GET EBOOK

In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as ma
The Safety Utopia
Language: en
Pages: 156
Authors: Hans Boutellier
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-08 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

GET EBOOK

My ?rst encounter with the world of crime and punishment was more than two decades ago, and it has since undergone vast changes. No one could have foreseen that
Nos. 1501-1821. (Together with index for all decisions 1-1821)
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Great Britain. Ministry of Labour
Categories: Unemployment insurance
Type: BOOK - Published: 1921 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK