Ines Weizman
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Ines Weizman, Diploma in Architecture (Bauhaus University Weimar), MPhil (Cantab.), PhD (Architectural Association), is an architect and theorist based in London. She is director of the MA Cities Design and Urban Cultures at the Department of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University. She also teaches architectural history and theory at the Architectural Association London and at Syracuse University Architecture Program London.
Previously she was Diploma Tutor at the Architectural Association for Dip 12 (Unit Master Martine de Maeseneer). In 2005 she was guest professor at the Berlage Institute of Architecture in Rotterdam and taught politics at Goldsmiths College London University. She has been visiting critic in numerous architecture studios in the UK and internationally.In her doctoral research she studied the effects of the collapse of the Iron Curtain on the urbanism of former socialist countries. She published articles on the political and ideological spectacles enacted by Soviet-era architecture. Currently she is working on a book about the urbanism of the ideological spectacle in what was East Germany – before, during and after the Cold War. It is also an attempt in understanding figures and practices of dissidence in architecture.
Architectural Projects/ Exhibitions
__________________________________ORDOS 100, Private Villa in Ordos, Inner Mongolia (China), in collaboration with Andreas Thiele Architekten Berlin, 2009
http://bakerhouse.org/
http://szenografie.hfg-karlsruhe.de/uploads/media/0313.pdf
http://www.abitare.it/events/ai-wei-wei-opens-in-munich/Cell-texts, Project for exhibition "YOUprison: reflections on the limitation of freedom and space", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, in collaboration with Eyal Weizman, 2008
www.celltexts.org
http://www.frieze.com/comment/article/celltexts/
http://www.cca.rca.ac.uk/hermanshouse/forum/forum3.php
http://knast-sind-immer-die-anderen.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html...Reconsidering Utopia(s), Exhibition, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, project developed with Manuel Herz and alumni of the Berlage Institute of Architecture, Rotterdam, 2005
http://plan05.plan-project.com/german/projekte.html?id=4Island City – Leipzig Grünau, Documentary Film, Interviews with former architects and urban planners of a socialist housing estate in Leipzig, 2004
http://www.nextroom.at/building_article.php?building_id=18800&article_id...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2FrIguXm4k
http://www.cityvisionseurope.eu/en/articles/show/interview_with_ines_wei...1/36 Runaway spatial plan IV: 2 art cubes and 1 elevator in between Ashdod and Kwai Chung, public art project in Hong Kong with Amy Chung and Eyal Weizman Rafi Segal Architects, 2002
Publications
__________________________________Re-searching (for) the public. Other means of design in former East German cities, in Ilka & Andreas Ruby (eds)"Urban Transformation", Ruby Press, 2008
(excerpt)
http://www.holcimfoundation.org/Portals/1/docs/F07/WK-Norm/F07-WK-Norm-w...Cell-texts, Essay in Catalogue for Exhibition "YOUprison: reflections on the limitation of freedom and space", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, in collaboration with Eyal Weizman
www.celltexts.orgThe destruction of participation, Article in Open House International (Journal), Special Issue on Rapid Change and Scarce Resources, Maurice Mitchell (ed.), pp. 70-77
http://www.openhouse-int.com/abdisplay.php?xvolno=33_2_11‘Arms race, architectural’, Entry for the DICTIONARY OF WAR, Frankfurt, Merve Verlag Berlin,
http://v2v.cc/v2v/Arms_Race%2C_Architectural_Ines_Weizman“Islands”: The Geography of Extraterritoriality, with Anselm Franke and Eyal Weizman, in ISLANDS+GHETTOS, catalogue for exhibition by Heidelberger Kunstverein, Verlag fuer moderne Kunst Nuernberg, 2008 pp. 14-19
Critique without Memory, or Memory without Critique. The story of post-socialist transformation, Essay, in "Againstwithin" (Ilina Koralova ed. on behalf of Gallery of Contemporary Art, Leipzig), pp.21-35
http://www.gfzk-online.de/en/index.php?menue=28&pos=12&sub=22&artikel=135Stereoscopic Times, Article, in Kyong Park, ‘Urban Ecology’, Map Office, Hong Kong, p.97
Talking Walls, Article (with Eyal Weizman), in Kyong Park, ‘Urban Ecology’, Map Office, Hong Kong, p.59The Architectural Arms Race across the Berlin Wall, Article, SITE (Stockholm), pp.4-6
http://www.sitemagazine.net/issues/15/15.pdfIsland City - Leipzig Grünau, Article, ARCH+ Journal of Architecture, May, Nr 173, pp.17-23, excerpt on: http://www.nextroom.at/building_article.php?building_id=18800&article_id...
Temporal Dyslexia, Article, Catalogue of the German Pavillon, Venice Architecture Biennale
http://www.deutschlandschaft.de/Islands. The Geography of Extraterritoriality, Article with Eyal Weizman, Anselm Franke, ARCHIS 6, pp.18-54
Domesticating East German communism through celluloid and bricks, Article (Ines Geisler), http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Film/article_1562.jsp
Soothe. Developmental Integration in Global London, (with Ciro Najle), in Xaveer de Greyter Architects, After Sprawl. Research for the contemporary city, NAi Publishers, deSingel 2002, pp.156-158
Research/ Editing, Swiss Made, Steven Spier, Thames & Hudson, published in 2003
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