Eyal Weizman is an 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.
Eyal Weizman also
taught at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Technion School
of Architecture and Planning in Haifa, Lebanon and the Bartlett School
of Architecture in London.
Throughout his studies at the AA in
London he worked with Zvi Hecker in Berlin and did projects in
partnership with him. He set up his private practice with Rafi Segal in
1999.
Together with the human-rights organization B'tselem, Eyal
initiated a report on violations of human-rights and international
humanitarian law through the use of architecture and planning titled
Land Grab. The map produced alongside this report was the first of its
kind to represent the nature of planning and the formal dimension of
the Israeli Occupation.
The exhibition and the publication A Civilian Occupation, The Politics of Israeli Architecture he
co-edited/curated was based on this human-rights research. These
projects were banned by the Israeli Association of Architects, but
later shown in New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Malmö and
Tel Aviv.
His research is the basis for a documentary film and a book entitled The Politics of Verticality, to be published in 2007.
Eyal
Weizman moderated the workshop Temporary urbanism - Between the
permanent and transitory at the 2nd International Holcim Forum 2007 in
Shanghai and was a member of the Holcim Awards jury for region Africa
Middle East in 2008.
[last updated 27-Aug-10]