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In recent years, a little-known research group called Forensic Architecture has begun using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UN. Forensic Architecture has created a new form of investigative practice, using architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction. In Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, the group's founder, provides an in-depth introduction to the history, practice, assumptions, potentials, and double binds of this practice. Weizman has collected an extensive array of images, maps, and detailed documentation that records the intricate work the group has performed across the globe. Weizman offers Forensic Architecture case studies that include the analysis of the shrapnel fragments in a room struck by drones in Pakistan, the resolution of a contested shooting in the West Bank, the architectural reconstruction of a secret Syrian detention center from the memory of its survivors, a blow-by-blow account of a day-long battle in Gaza, and an investigation of environmental violence in the Guatemalan highlands

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Forensic Architecture
• Author: Eyal Weizman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9781935408864
• ISBN: 1935408860
• ID: 14274452
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Weight: 1178 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 237 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. March 2017

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