Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture-Public Talk (April 21st)
School of Art & Art History Proudly Presents
April 21, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Central Time
Location
ARC 241 (The Academic and Residential Complex)
Address
940 W Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607
Cost
Free and Open to the Public
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Eyal Weizman is the Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture and Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where in 2005 he founded the Centre for Research Architecture. In 2007, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, he established the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine.
He is the author of numerous books, including Hollow Land, The Least of all Possible Evils, Investigative Aesthetics, The Roundabout Revolutions, The Conflict Shoreline, FORENSIS, and Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability.
In 2019, he was elected life fellow of the British Academy. In 2020, he received an MBE for ‘services to architecture’. He was the recipient of the London Design Award (2021) and the Mark Cousins Theory Award (2024). Forensic Architecture is the recipient of The Right Livelihood Award, a Peabody Award for interactive media, the European Cultural Foundation Award for Culture, and the RIBA Charles Jencks Award.
Eyal graduated with a degree in architecture from the Architectural Association in 1998, and received his PhD in 2006 from the London Consortium at Birkbeck, University of London.
Date posted
Mar 27, 2025
Date updated
Apr 16, 2025