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About Eyal Weizman
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 he set up, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. Goldsmiths research agency Forensic Architecture has won a prestigious human rights award in recognition of its pioneering work. The Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel, aims to “honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today”.
He is the author of many books, including Hollow Land, The Least of all Possible Evils, Investigative Aesthetics, The Roundabout Revolutions, The Conflict Shoreline and Forensic Architecture. Eyal held positions in many universities worldwide including Princeton, ETH Zurich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He is a member of the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court and of the Centre for Investigative Journalism.
In 2019 he was elected life fellow of the British Academy. In 2020 he received an MBE for ‘services to architecture’ and in 2021 the London Design Award. Forensic Architecture is the recipient of a Peabody Award for interactive media and the European Cultural Foundation Award for Culture.
Eyal studied architecture at the Architectural Association, graduating in 1998. He received his PhD in 2006 from the London Consortium at Birkbeck, University of London.
In honor and memory of renowned architect Charles Correa (B. Arch. ’53), The Charles Correa Charitable Trust, through an endowed gift, established the Charles Correa International Lecture Fund in order to support the yearly Charles Correa Lecture at Taubman College, featuring an international architect.
Born in India and educated in the U.S., Charles Correa’s work reflects an international perspective. Able to reference a range of architectural traditions, he is known for designs that translate the language of modernism into a dialect of the Indian subcontinent.
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