Artnet

Did Forensic Architecture Prove That Police Unlawfully Killed a Man? The Collective’s New Work Breaks Down a Tragedy, Frame by Frame

On July 14, 2018, Harith Augustus, a 37-year-old barber, was walking down the street in Chicago’s South Side when the five police officers stopped him for carrying a gun. Within seconds, officer ...
Artnet

‘It Will Have a Chilling Effect’: Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman on a Secretive Government Algorithm That Stopped Him Entering the US

The director of Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, has been denied entry to the US after being classified as a “security threat” by a Homeland Security algorithm. The unconventional artist and ...
Wired

Can digital forensics help us work out what happened at Grenfell?

On June 15, 2017, London woke up to a terrible shock. The night before, in the affluent borough of Kensington and Chelsea, a fridge-freezer had exploded on the fourth floor of the 24-storey public ...
archpaper

A Forensic Architecture exhibition in Germany uses real life narratives and architecture to document violence and systemic racism

On May 24, a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 children and two teachers before being shot by off-duty Border Patrol officers. For nearly an hour, police massed in ...
archpaper

Forensic Architecture sets a high bar at the Whitney Biennial

Triple-Chaser, Forensic Architecture, 2019. High-definition video, color, sound; 10:43 min. (Courtesy Forensic Architecture and Praxis Films.) “While my company and the museum have distinct missions, ...
Architectural Record

Interview with Forensic Architecture Founder Eyal Weizman

Born in Israel and educated at the Architectural Association (AA), Eyal Weizman could be considered more a detective than an architect. In 2011, Weizman established Forensic Architecture, an agency ...
Hyperallergic

Forensic Architecture's Project at Whitney Biennial Reveals Museum Vice Chair’s Company May Be Complicit in War Crimes

A still from “Triple-Chaser” showing various Safariland tear gas canisters (image courtesy Forensic Architecture/Praxis Films) Forensic Architecture’s submission for the 2019 Whitney Biennial includes ...
WRAL

Architecture’s Forensic Gaze

LONDON — Last year, Israeli police officers raided a Bedouin village in the Negev desert called Umm al-Hiran. Israeli authorities said that during the raid a villager had purposely run over an Israeli ...
Hyperallergic

Forensic Architecture

Over 200 students and faculty members condemned the decision, which they say is based on the group’s research into Israel’s occupation of Palestine. An investigation by Forensic Architecture and ...
The New York Times

Forensics Helps Widen Architecture’s Mission

LONDON — Last year, Israeli police officers raided a Bedouin village in the Negev desert called Umm al-Hiran. The Israeli authorities said that during the raid a villager had purposely run over an ...
ArchDaily

Architecture on Stage: Forensic Architecture

Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture, will lecture at the Barbican in cooperation with The Architecture Foundation discuss the group's practice combining architecture and digital forensics.