On October 15, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC presents Eyal Weizman in his public Wall Exchange lecture, “Forensic Architecture”, at the Vogue Theatre.

Can architecture provide new tool of political analysis and intervention? This question is central to the work of Weizman. By examining buildings, ruins, maps, satellite imagery, and citizen images and video, his research teams investigate the sites of contemporary conflicts and monitor the crimes of states. Weizman unpacks state violence from the frontier regions of Pakistan, through the forests of south America to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Weizman is an Israeli architect, scholar, and a world-leading analyst of the relationship between architecture and conflict. His explorations of architectural construction and destruction are yielding surprising insights into the dynamics of political and military struggle, from unauthorized settlements to drone strikes.

Weizman’s work accentuates the intersection of architecture with art, forensic science, human rights, law, philosophy, and politics.

Weizman is professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures, and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was appointed 2014-15 Global Scholar at Princeton University.