The Other Architect

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.