Summary
Lambert’s thesis that architecture is inherently political — “architecture is never politically innocent” — and can be conceived or instrumentalized as a political weapon, by the colonizer and, in disobedient form, by the colonized (The Funambulist Pamphlets, Volume 06: Palestine, PDF p.92, 98-99).
Details
- Architecture is violent in essence (transforming lines into walls); the conditioning and use of that violence is a political act (PDF p.99).
- No line an architect traces can possibly be innocent — the subtitle of his book is The Impossibility of Innocence (PDF p.106).
- Weizman, quoted as epigraph: when an architect’s design premeditatedly aims to cause material damage as part of organized aggression, a war crime may have been committed (PDF p.62).
Related pages
The Funambulist Pamphlets, Volume 06: Palestine, Disobedient Architecture, Léopold Lambert