Ines Weizman

Email: ines@eruv.net

Ines Weizman, Diploma in Architecture (Bauhaus University Weimar), MPhil (Cantab.), PhD (Architectural Association), is an architect and critic based in London. She taught design and architectural history and theory at the Architectural Association. In 2005 she was guest professor at the Berlage Institute of Architecture in Rotterdam and taught politics at Goldsmiths College London. In recent years she researched utopian visions within the context of urbanism after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, particularly about the architectural transformation of former East German cities since the reunification. She published articles on the political and ideological spectacles enacted by Soviet-era architecture, on the urban historiography of former East German cities, as well as on the phenomena of 'shrinking cities'.

Publications
Stereoscopic Times, in Kyong Park, 'Urban Ecology', Map Office, Hong Kong
The Architectural Arms Race across the Berlin Wall, in SITE (Stockholm)
Island City - Leipzig Grünau, in ARCH+ Journal of Architecture
Temporal Dyslexia, in Catalogue of the German Pavillon, Venice Architecture Biennale
Domesticating East German communism through celluloid and bricks, (Ines Geisler), www.opendemocracy.com/themes/arrticles-1-1562.jsp

Exhibitions
Reconsidering Utopia(s), Exhibition, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, project developed with Manuel Herz and alumni of the Berlage Institute of Architecture, Rotterdam, 2005

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