Eyal Weizman

Professor of Spatial & Visual Cultures and Founding Director, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom

Eyal Weizman

Professor of Spatial & Visual Cultures and Founding Director, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom

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    Eyal Weizman

    Professor of Spatial & Visual Cultures. Image courtesy: Goldsmiths, University of London.

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    Holcim Forum 2007 - Shanghai, China.

    Eyal Weizman, architect, writer and curator based in London. Previously a professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, he is now the director of Goldsmiths College’s Centre of Architectural Research.

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    Holcim Awards 2008 jury for Africa Middle East

    The Holcim Awards jury for region Africa Middle East chaired by Joe Addo met in Johannesburg, South Africa in June 2008 to select projects using the “target issues” for sustainable construction. The juries of the Holcim Awards competition include independent experts of international stature engaged in the sustainable development of society, building processes, construction materials, and building projects. (l-r): Joe Osae-Addo, Amer Moustafa, Holger Wallbaum, Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, Nina Maritz, Dominique Drouet, Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdellah, Daniel K Irurah, Eyal Weizman.

Eya Weizman is an architect, writer, and curator. He is Professor of Spatial & Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Last updated: April 09, 2024 London, United Kingdom

He moderated the workshop Temporary urbanism: Between the permanent and transitory at the 2nd Holcim Forum 2007 and was a member of the Holcim Awards 2008 jury for region Africa & Middle East.

He founded and directs the research agency Forensic Architecture since 2010. 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 worldwide.

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.