Eyal Weizman

Eyal Weizman studied at Architectural Association School of Architecture, Birkbeck, University of London and Hebrew Reali School. The recorded working language is Hebrew and English. The field of work recorded is architecture and visual culture. Employment is recorded with University of London and Goldsmiths, University of London. Distinctions recorded are Member of the Order of the British Empire.

• Name — Eyal Weizman • Native Name — אייל ויצמן • Birth Name — Eyal Weizman • Born — 26 July 1970 • Birthplace — Haifa, Israel • Citizenship — * Iraq • United Kingdom • Practice — * Forensic Architecture • Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency • Education — Architectural Association School of Architecture (B.Arch, 1998) London Consortium (PhD, 2006) • Website — Forensic Architecture Bio

Eyal Weizman was born in Haifa, Israel. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London, and completed his PhD at the London Consortium.

In 2007 he was a founding member of the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture (DAAR) in Beit Sahour in the West Bank Palestinian territories. Weizman has been a professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and has also taught at The Bartlett (UCL) in London and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. He has lectured, curated, and organized conferences in many institutions worldwide. Weizman's most known theoretical work describes the acts of the Israeli army, based on readings of post-structuralist French philosophers. He has also conducted research on behalf of B'tselem on the "planning aspects of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank". He has also published many articles on Israeli geography and architecture. In 2013 he designed a permanent folly in Gwangju, South Korea, which was documented in the book The Roundabout Revolution (Sternberg, 2015). • Illustration — Weizman speaking at the re:publica in Berlin in 2018 In 2010 he established the agency Forensic Architecture, which provide advanced architectural and media evidence to civil society groups, with the help of several European Research Council grants, as well as other human rights grants. In 2017, he was a guest speaker at the 17th edition of the Sonic Acts Festival: The Noise of Being (Amsterdam). Since 2019 he is a guest professor at ETH Zurich. Between 2014 and 2017 he was a Global Scholar at Princeton University. In February 2020, Weizman was informed by email that his right to travel to the United States under a visa waiver program had been revoked. He was later informed by an official of the US Embassy in London that an algorithm had identified a security threat that was related to him.

Weizman is on the editorial board of Third Text, Humanity, Cabinet and Political Concepts and is a board member of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) and of the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, and sat on the board of the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem in Jerusalem. He is currently on the advisory boards of the Human Rights Project at Bard College in New York, as a jury member for architecture in the Akademie Schloss Solitude and of other academic and cultural institutions. In 2014 Weizman was featured in "The Architecture of Violence", a film produced for the series Rebel Architecture broadcast by Al Jazeera English. Weizman has spoken against Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Speaking about the Israeli military targeting of civilians, Weizman said he "can't see it anything other than a part of the genocidal campaign". Work done by Weizman, as part of Forensic Architecture, has countered Israel's defense in South Africa's genocide case against Israel. Summarizing the report's findings, Weizman has said: Israel's defence at the ICJ relied greatly on it instituting these humanitarian zones, warnings and evacuation orders. And with this, they were trying to argue that actually they are trying to save lives, rather than, as accused, engaging in genocidal acts. In fact, when we looked at the correlation between evacuation orders and where people were actually sent, we saw very often people were sent to areas that had no adequate infrastructure. Furthermore, people were being attacked by the military in these zones. Weizman has criticized Germany's legal and political framework which criminalizes certain forms of solidarity with Palestine by equating it with antisemitism. Weizman argues that this state-sponsored repression undermines democratic values and restricts the ability to challenge oppressive political systems. He also criticized the German state by arguing that the state imposes a narrow, politicized definition of Jewish identity to serve its own political interests. He said: Both Emily and I, as Jewish intellectuals in Germany, find ourselves occasionally being deplatformed, being publicly disciplined – being lectured by the children and grandchildren of the perpetrators who murdered our families and who now dare to tell us that we are antisemitic.

Hollow Land • 2017 in Arabic, Cairo and Ramallah: Madarat for Research and Publishing • 2017 in Turkish, Istanbul: Kitap • 2017 in Hebrew, Tel Aviv: Babel Books • 2012 in Spanish (chr. 7): A través de los muros, Madrid: Errate naturae editors • 2011 in Greek (chr. 7), Athens: ΤΟΠOBOPOΣ • 2009 in German (chr. 7): Durch Wände gehen, Leipzig: Konserve-Verlag • 2009 in German: Sperrzonen: Israels architektur der besatzung, Hamburg: Edition Nautilus • 2009 in Italian: Architettura dell'occupazione: spazio politico e controllo territoriale in Palestina e Israele, Milan: Bruno Mondadori • 2007 in French (chr. 7): A travers les murs, Paris: La Fabrique The Conflict's Shoreline • 2016 in Hebrew, Kav Hamidbar, Sav Hasihsuh, Tel Aviv: Babel Books The Least of all Possible Evils • 2013 in Italian, Il minore dei mali possibili, Rome: Nottetempo • 2013 in Croatian, Najmanje od svih mogućih zala, Zagreb: Multimedijalni institute • 2009 in Italian, Il Male Minore, Rome: Nottetempo (a short version, Italian) Mengele's Skull • 2020 in German, Megeles Schädel, Leipzig: Merve • 2015 in Spanish el cráneo de Mengele, Madrid and Buenos Aires: Sans Soleil Ediciones • 2014 in Turkish, Mengele'nin Kafatası Adli Estetiğin Ortaya Çıkışı, Istanbul, Açılım Kitap • 2013 in Hebrew, Hagulgolet Shel Mengele: Lidata shel Haestetika Haforensit, Tel Aviv: Resling Books • 2013 in Croatian, Mengeleova lubanja: Zaceci forenzicke estetike, Zagreb: Monoskop

• "All they will find is sand: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza", London Review of Books, vol. 48, no. 7 (23 April 2026), pp. 23–26.

Forensic Architecture exhibited internationally including at the documenta 14 in Kassel. In 2017 Forensic Architecture had two major museum exhibitions at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) and at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC). In 2018 Forensic Architecture held a solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Forensic Architecture's work is included in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.