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Aug 4, 2007Behind the Wall
"The literature of architecture is largely self-serving, depoliticised and superficial. In Hollow Land Weizman has achieved a rare amalgam of politics, aesthetics, sociology, history and theory. He has produced a book which should be compulsory reading for anyone who thinks architecture has reduced its cultural role to the building of iconic galleries and silly skyscrapers. Rather, as Weizman shows, it remains the most politicised and potentially dangerous of all the arts."
Edwin Heathcote, who writes on architecture for the Financial Times, reviews Eyal Weizman's Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation (Verso, 2007).
Eyal Weizman is also co-editor (with Rafi Segal) of A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture (Verso, 2003). Anne Karpf, writing in the Jewish Chronicle, described this book as an"incriminating piece of work that shows how deeply implicated Israeli architects have been in the state’s expansionism."
Edwin Heathcote, who writes on architecture for the Financial Times, reviews Eyal Weizman's Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation (Verso, 2007).
Eyal Weizman is also co-editor (with Rafi Segal) of A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture (Verso, 2003). Anne Karpf, writing in the Jewish Chronicle, described this book as an"incriminating piece of work that shows how deeply implicated Israeli architects have been in the state’s expansionism."
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