The book Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence that gathers 200 pages of my research and my architectural project will be published in March by DPR-Barcelona.
Ethel Baraona-Pohl and Cesar Reyes were in fact kind enough to take the risk of this publication and we are currently working on it together.
Here is the index of the book:
INTRODUCTION: VIOLENCE ON THE BODY
ARCHITECTURE IS A WEAPON
- Chapter 1: Military Architecture
- Chapter 2: State of Exception
- Chapter 3: Urbicide
- Chapter 4: Architecture of Safety
- Chapter 5: Capitalism’s Architecture
- Chapter 6: Resistive Architectures
- Chapter 7: Smoothing and Striating Space
- Interview: Bryan Finoki
ISRAELI COLONIAL APPARATUSES
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Israeli Separation Barrier
- Chapter 2: I.D.F.’s Road Checkpoints
- Chapter 3: Israeli Civil Settlements
- Chapter 4: Segregated Infrastructures
- Chapter 5: Areas of Control
- Chapter 6: Militarized Destructions
- Chapter 7: Extreme Urban Example: Hebron
- Interview: Raja Shehadeh
AN ARCHITECTURAL DISOBEDIANCE
- Introduction
- Designed Project
CONCLUSION: SYMPATHY WITH THE OBSTACLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
APPENDIX /// LOST IN THE LINE
- Introduction
- Graphic Novel
Claude Parent & Paul Virilio: The Oblique Function (chapter Sympathy with the Obstacle)
Sarajevo after the war in 1995
Paris during the 1848 Revolution
East Jerusalem
Israeli settlement in the West Bank
Hebron (West Bank)
An Architectural Disobediance: Palestinian Qasr and Caravansery in Area C
An Architectural Disobediance: Palestinian Qasr and Caravansery in Area C
An Architectural Disobediance: Palestinian Qasr and Caravansery in Area C
Lost in the Line, an architectural graphic novel
Is this still coming out in October Léopold?
it’s getting a bit late, probably mid-November. I will keep people updated. Thanks for asking !
Great. Happy its still coming out. Look forward to reading it!
any word?
I would like to order a copy of the book, but I can’t seem to find anywhere to purchase it or download a pdf. Any help?
Hello Cameron
Thank you very much for your interest in the book. Copies will be available very soon in various bookstores of the world. Stay tuned.
Thanks again
Leopold
Brilliant, thank you. I would really like to read it and review it!
I am unable to find this book, except on dpr-Barcelona’s site from which I cannot purchase. Am I missing something?
Hello Chris
Unfortunately you are not missing something, the distributor is just late. Be sure that you will find all the information you need to purchase the book once it’ll be out.
Thank you very much for your interest
Leopold