Eyal Weizman
(1970)
Israel
  

 

 

 Based in Tel Aviv and London, Eyal Weizman is a graduate of the London Architectural Association. He has worked with various projects at the Zvi Hecker agency in Berlin, before setting his own office in 2000 with Rafi Segal. Among projects realized, is the Ashdod Art Museum (open in June 2003, with Manuel Herz), a stage set for the Kameri/Itim theatre company, and short-listing among the finalists for the design of the Tel Aviv Art Museum. In tandem, Eyal Weizman has taught architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and at the Haifa Technion; he also participated in the 2002 and 2003 Venice Biennale. In 2002, as co-author of the Land Grab report on human rights, he conducted a research and mapping programme with the Israeli organization B’tselem in regard to the violation of human rights by architecture in the occupied territories. In 2003, although banned by the Israeli Association of Architects, Eyal Weizman and Rafi Segal presented the exhibition, with accompanying catalogue, titled A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture at the Storefront Gallery for Art and Architecture in New York, at the Kunst Werke centre in Berlin, at Witte de With in Rotterdam and in Kunsthall Malmö in Sweden. Eyal Weizman is the author of Yellow Rhythms and Random Walk, and is currently developing his thesis The Politics of Verticality/Architecture and Occupation in the West Bank and Gaza in the form of a publication and a documentary film.