Main entry:

Lambert, Léopold, 1985-

Title & Author:

Weaponized architecture : the impossibility of innocence / Léopold Lambert.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Dpr-barcelona, 2012.

Description:

178 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm

Notes:
Accompanying "Weapon-Arch" app may be downloaded at www.dpr-barcelona.com and used to interact with the book.
Includes bibliographical references (page 172).
Architecture is a Weapon 15 -- Chapter 1 Military Architecture 16 -- Chapter 2 State of Exception 19 -- Chapter 3 Urbicide 23 -- Chapter 4 Architecture of Safety 26 -- Chapter 5 Capitalism's Architecture 31 -- Chapter 6 Resistive Architectures 35 -- Chapter 7 Smoothing and Striding Space 41 -- Israeli Colonial Apparatuses 65 -- Introduction 66 -- Chapter 1 Israeli Separation Barrier 70 -- Chapter 2 I.D.F.'s Road Checkpoints 74 -- Chapter 3 Israeli Civil Settlements 78 -- Chapter 4 Segregated Infrastructures 82 -- Chapter 5 Areas of Control 86 -- Chapter 6 Militarized Destructions 90 -- Chapter 7 Extreme Urban Example: Hebron 94 -- An Architectural Disobediance 107 -- Introduction 111 -- Designed Project 118.

Summary:

Weaponized Architecture is an examination of the inherent instrumentalization of architecture as a political weapon; research informs the development of a project which, rather than defusing these characteristics, attempts to integrate them within the scene of a political struggle. The proposed project dramatizes, through its architecture, a Palestinian disobedience to the colonial legislation imposed on its legal territory. In fact, the State of Israel masters the elaboration of territorial and architectural colonial apparatuses that act directly on Palestinian daily lives. In this regard, it is crucial to observe that 63% of the West Bank is under total control of the Israeli Defense Forces in regards to security, movement, planning and construction. Weaponized Architecture is thus manifested as a Palestinian shelter, with an associated agricultural platform, which expresses its illegality through its architectural vocabulary.

Resources:
Accompanying app
Accompanying app

ISBN:

8461537025 (paperback)
9788461537020 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Political aspects West Bank.
Architecture and state West Bank.
Architecture and society West Bank.
Architecture Aspect politique Cisjordanie.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Cisjordanie.
Architecture et société Cisjordanie.
Architecture and society.
Architecture and state.
Architecture Political aspects.
West Bank.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283870
Call No.: BIB 222327
Status: Available