Forensic Architecture

Eyal with Tom Keenan presented Eyal's new book The Least of All Possible at The James Gallery,CUNY. The book opens a new path in architectural understanding and built environment that comes into a total agency of destructions.Beside cases from different geographies and critical discussion of humanitarian aid, the book establish a definition of forensic architecture, forensic architecture. Under the conditions of the recent state led urban transformation process in the built environment in Turkey; methods and analysis of forensic architecture is vital. "In both their theological and military contexts, as Giorgia Agamben observed, the collateral effects are structural rather than accidental. It is through the collateral -flood or blood- that a government - divine or human- can demonstrate, indeed exercise, its power".p.3

"Existing at the intersection of architecture, history and the laws of war, forensic architecture must refer to an analytical method of reconstructing scenes of violence as they are inscribed in spatial artefacts and in built environments". "The principle of forensics assumes two interrelated sets of spatial relations. The first is the relation between an event and the object in which traces of that event is registered. The second is a relation between the object and the forum that assembles around it and to which its 'speech' is addressed. Forensics is therefore as concerned with the materialization of the event as with the construction of a forum and the performance of objects and interpreters within it."p.110 "Forensic architecture aspires to transform the built environment from an illustration of alleged violations to a source of knowledge, however incomplete - to enable elucidation from the form and disposition of ruins something of the events that led to a building's destruction". p.110-111
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At Full Stop, Michael Schapira and Carla Hung interview Eyal Weizman on the occasion of the release of his latest book, The Least of All Possible Evils, new from Verso. Weizman fields a number of questions related to forensic architecture:

Forensic Architecture is grounded in both field-work and forum-work; fields are the sites of investigation and analysis and forums the political spaces in which analysis is presented and contested. Each of theses sites presents a host of architectural and political problems....

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