Architects sometimes achieve recognition without having completed their first building. Most, however, do want to build something, speculatively entering competitions, wooing clients and proposing projects until their big break comes. Eyal Weizman doesn’t have ambitions to design an opera house, gallery or corporate HQ. Instead, as the founder and director of Forensic Architecture, he focuses on reverse architecture, deeply studying sites, events and conditions through architectural processes; not in order to imagine a built future, but to interrogate nuances of the past – ‘our work is like an act of archaeology’.
More agency than office, Forensic Architecture applies architectural processes alongside methods of reading and rendering time, place and witness to understand sites of trauma, crime and disaster. It’s a sensitive deployment of creative skills and, while it may seem alien to more traditional architectural work, Weizman embeds his overtly political practice within the architectural sector, albeit at the centre of a Venn diagram intersecting countless other disciplines.
Forensic Architecture is based at Goldsmiths College in London, within the Centre for Research Architecture founded by Weizman in 2005. In recent years, the studio has received increasing recognition for its output. Weizman was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2019, received an MBE in 2020, and the Design Innovation Medal in 2021. Forensic Architecture was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2018, and this year received a Peabody Award for ‘co-creating an entire new academic field and emergent media practice’.
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Guiding Light - Designer Joe Armitage follows his grandfather's footsteps in India, reissuing his elegant midcentury lamp and creating a new chandelier for Nilufar Gallery
For some of us, family inheritances I tend to be burdensome, taking up space, emotionally and physically, in both our minds and attics. For the London-based designer and architect Joe Armitage, however, a family heirloom has taken him somewhere lighter and brighter, across generations and continents, and into the path of Le Corbusier. This is the story of a lamp designed by Edward Armitage in India 72 years ago, which has today been expanded into a collection of lights by his grandson Joe.
POLE POSITION
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URBAN OASIS
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WARM FRONT
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BALCONY SCENE
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ENSEMBLE CAST
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Survival mode
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FLASK FORCE
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BLOOM SERVICE
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SECOND NATURE
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