A new form of investigative practice that uses architecture as an
optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental
destruction. In recent years, the group Forensic Architecture began
using novel research methods to undertake a series of
investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides
crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide
range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UN.
Forensic Architecture has not only shed new light on human rights
violations and state crimes across the globe, but has also created
a new form of investigative practice that bears its name. The group
uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed
conflicts and environmental destruction, as well as to
cross-reference a variety of evidence sources, such as new media,
remote sensing, material analysis, witness testimony, and
crowd-sourcing. In Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, the group's
founder, provides, for the first time, an in-depthintroduction to
the history, practice, assumptions, potentials, and double binds of
this practice. The book includes an extensive array of images,
maps, and detailed documentation that records the intricate work
the group has performed. Traversing multiple scales and durations,
the case studies in this volume include the analysis of the
shrapnel fragments in a room struck by drones in Pakistan, the
reconstruction of a contested shooting in the West Bank, the
architectural recreation of a secret Syrian detention center from
the memory of its survivors, a blow-by-blow account of a day-long
battle in Gaza, and an investigation of environmental violence and
climate change in the Guatemalan highlands and elsewhere. Weizman's
Forensic Architecture,stunning and shocking in its critical
narrative, powerful images,and daring investigations, presents a
new form of public truth, technologically, architecturally, and
aesthetically produced. The practice calls for a transformative
politics in which architecture as a field of knowledge and a mode
of interpretation exposes and confronts ever-new forms of state
violence and secrecy.
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