A Civilian Occupation: "The Politics of Israeli Architecture"

February 10, 2003 to March 2, 2003

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Disputed Lands: The Politics of Territory and Contested Sovereignty

A GIS Project of the EPIIC "Sovereignty and Intervention" Colloquium

Exhibit
Tisch Library, February 10-March 2, 2003

A Civilian Occupation: "The Politics of Israeli Architecture"

In this series of articles and photo-essays, Weizman paints the extraordinary, three-dimensional battle over the West Bank: from settlements to sewage, archaeology to Apaches. Weizman introduces the experience of territory in the West Bank, which explodes simple political boundaries and "crashes three-dimensional space into six dimensions ãthree Jewish and three Arab".

Lecture
Thursday, February 13, 7:30PM, Barnum 008

Strategic Points, Flexible Lines, Tense Surfaces, Political Volumes: Israel, Gaza and The West Bank

Speakers:
Eyal Weizman and Rafi Segal

Eyal Weizman is an architect based in Tel Aviv and London. He hastaught architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, atthe University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the Technion in Haifa. he has worked for Yackov Rechter Architects in Tel Aviv, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority Planning Department, Dariat El Barid (town planning for Ramallah). He has conducted research and a map-making project for the Israelihuman-rights organization B'tselem. He is the editor of "A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture," and author, "The Politics of Verticality: From Settlements To Sewage, Archaeology To Apaches".

Rafi Segal is an architect based in Israel. He is the co-designer of the Palmach Museum of History in Tel Aviv and the coeditor of "A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture."