Eyal Weizman is an Architect based in London. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium, Birkbeck College. He is the director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. As an architect in Israel Eyal Weizman has been working with a variety of NGOs and Human right groups in Israel/Palestine. He co-curated the exhibition A Civilian Occupation, The Politics of Israeli Architecture, and co-edited the publication of the same title. These projects were based on his human-rights research, and were banned by the Israeli Association of Architects. They were later shown in the exhibition Terriories in New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Malmoe, Tel Aviv and Ramallah.

Weizman has taught, lectured and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. His books include Hollow Land [forthcoming with Verso Books], A Civilian Occupation [Verso Books, 2003], the series Territories 1,2 and 3], Yellow Rhythms and many articles in journals, magazines and edited books.

Politics of Verticality

The Art of War, an edited version of Walking Through Walls, found in Radical Philosophy March/April 2006

The Wall and the Eye: An Interview with Eyal Weizman

Weizman is the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007, and is engaged in Research Architecture

See also: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin: a series of photographs from a mock Arab city, Chicago, built by the Israeli military for urban combat training. Eyal Weizman wrote the accompanying essay for their book See: http://www.choppedliver.info/flash.html and http://www.utne.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=utne&story.id=12542

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