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“An incriminating piece of work that shows how deeply implicated Israeli architects have been in the state’s expansionism.” — Anne Karpf, Jewish Chronicle
Censored last year by the Association of Israeli Architects, A Civilian Occupation is the first attempt by Israeli architects, scholars, journalists, and photographers to highlight the role of Israeli architecture in the Middle East conflict.
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the declared aim of the Zionist project has been to build a national home for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel. From the settlement offensive of the Tower and Stockade villages in the 1930s, through the total planning of the state of Israel soon after its independence, to the colonization of the occupied territories from 1967 to the present, this book reveals how central Israeli architecture has been in securing that aim.
“A half-century later, this slice of history helps explain the intensity of a dispute currently dividing Israeli architects.” — Alan Riding, New York Times
Contributors: Daniel Bauer, B’Tselem, Meron Benvenisti, Zvi Efrat, Kenneth Frampton, Nadav Harel, Miki Kratsman, Milutin Labudovic, Gideon Levy, Ilan Potash, Sharon Rotbard, Rafi Segal, Efrat Shvily, Michael Sorkin, Eran Tamir-Tawil, Paul Virilio, Eyal Weizman, Pavel Wolberg, Oren Yiftachel
Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman are Israeli architects based in Tel Aviv. Their office is involved with practical and theoretical projects. Exhibitions related to A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture were held at the Storefront Gallery for Art and Architecture in New York and in Kunst-Werke Berlin.
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Sept. 2003
187 paqes
25 color and 116 b/w photos/illus.
Cloth
ISBN-13: 978 1 85984 549 3
£13 / US$20 / CAN$30
Also available:
Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman