Forensic Architecture
Venue
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, Canada
Date
28 Oct 2015 – 10 Apr 2016
Exhibition Type
Group

For as long as architecture has been reduced to a service to society, or an industry whose ultimate goal is only to build, there have been others who imagine it instead as a field of intellectual research: energetic, critical, and radical.

From a set of varied approaches drawn from many people, places, and times, the other architect emerges: searching for different operating models, aiming for collaborative strategies, introducing strange concepts, and experimenting with new kinds of tools.

Three Forensic Architecture projects are presented as videos in this exhibition: Drone Strike in Miranshah, The Killing of Nadeem Nawara and Mohammed Abu Daher and The Bombing of Rafah, Gaza.

A large wallpaper print framed a hand sketch of the drone strike in Miranshah, Pakistan. The work was accompanied by commissioning letters, and the original ERC award grant letter, that described Forensic Architecture’s nature as a research agency.

Related Investigations
Drone Strike in Miranshah
Miranshah, Pakistan · 30 Mar 2012
The Killing of Nadeem Nawara and Mohammed Abu Daher
Beitunia, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories · 15 May 2014
The Bombing of Rafah
Rafah, Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territories · 08 Jul 2014 – 26 Aug 2014