Weaponized architecture
Subtitle: the impossibility of innocence
By: Léopold Lambert
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: dpr-barcelona
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9788461537020
Subjects: Architecture; Architecture and state; Architecture and society
Description: 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.
Notes: Accompanying "Weapon-Arch" app may be downloaded at www.dpr-barcelona.com and used to interact with the book.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 172).