openDemocracy Author -Eyal Weizman

Eyal Weizman is an architect based in Tel Aviv and London. His exhibition and catalogue with Rafi Segal, A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture were banned by the Israeli Association of Architects, but later shown in New York and Berlin. He is developing The Politics of Verticality, first published on openDemocracy into a PhD thesis, a book and a film.

Recent articles

Ariel Sharon and the Geometry of Occupation... (part 3)

Israel's ‘barrier', ‘wall', or ‘separation fence' across the West Bank is the latest architectural expression of a twenty-year old political strategy. In a mind-opening three-part series that extends his renowned "The Politics of Verticality" into a new dimension, Eyal Weizman offers a penetrating analysis of how ideas about power, security and planning intersect with politics to shape the spaces in which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict develops.

For Paul Hirst in memory

(This article was first published on 15 September 2003)

Hollow Land

Israel's occupation of the West Bank is exercised through a panoptic system of three-dimensional control that makes the entire environment of the occupied Palestinian territories the embodiment of the architecture of colonialism. Eyal Weizman, openDemocracy author of "The politics of verticality" and "Ariel Sharon and the geometry of occupation", dissects and reconstructs the thinking and strategy behind this totalising project.

Ariel Sharon and the Geometry of Occupation... (part 2)

Israel’s ‘barrier’, ‘wall’, or ‘separation fence’ across the West Bank is the latest architectural expression of a twenty-year old political strategy. In a mind-opening three-part series that extends his renowned “The Politics of Verticality” into a new dimension, Eyal Weizman offers a penetrating analysis of how ideas about power, security and planning intersect with politics to shape the spaces in which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict develops.

For Paul Hirst in memory

Ariel Sharon and the Geometry of Occupation... (part 1)

For Paul Hirst in memory

11. Control in the air

Now and in the final settlement proposals, Israel holds control of the airspace over the West Bank. It uses its domination of the airspace and electromagnetic spectrum to drop a net of surveillance and pinpoint executions over the territory.