About Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman is an architect and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, London. Among his books is Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation (Verso, 2007)
Articles by Eyal Weizman
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No to TTIP
Constitutional conventions: best practice
Lawfare in Gaza: legislative attack
The emerging landscape of "lawfare" allows military operations to remake international humanitarian law. Israel's assault on Gaza both exposes the dangers and suggests the need for a response that subjects this law to critique, says Eyal Weizman.
Ariel Sharon and the Geometry of Occupation... (part 3)
Hollow Land
Ariel Sharon and the Geometry of Occupation... (part 2)
...strategic points, flexible lines, tense surfaces, political volumes
Ariel Sharon and the Geometry of Occupation... (part 1)
...strategic points, flexible lines, tense surfaces, political volumes
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.
Airspace is a discrete dimension absent from political maps.
10. Roads --; over and under
A bewildering network of bypass roads weave over and under one another, attempting to separate the Israeli and Palestinian communities.
9. Jerusalem
From the struggles over Haram al-Sharif (the Temple Mount) to the historic stone with which all Greater Jerusalem is now clad, Jerusalem is an intense case study of the politics of verticality.On 24 September 1996, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the opening of a subterranean archaeological tunnel running along the foundation of the Western Wall, underneath the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount compound. Thus the Government demonstrated its control of all parts of Jerusalem, above and below ground.
Subterranean Jerusalem is at least as complex as its terrain.
8. Excavating sacredness
7. From water to shit
The aquifers deep below the West Bank are a battleground, just as much as the rivers of sewage split through its valleys by both Israeli and Palestinian settlements.
The subterranean spaces of the West Bank are inhabited by underground aquifers, archaeological sites, and infrastructure systems, as well as sacredness hidden from view.
5. Optical urbanism
4. West Bank settlements
3. Hills and valleys of the West Bank
2. Maps of Israeli Settlements
1. Introduction to The Politics of Verticality
None of us have a coherent mental map of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Architect Eyal Weizman explains why. Were missing verticality. In this series of articles and photo-essays, he paints the extraordinary, three-dimensional battle over the West Bank: from settlements to sewage, archaeology to Apaches.
