Colloquia
Léopold Lambert
Weaponized Architecture: Two Decades of Spatial Practice
In this talk, writer and architect Léopold Lambert will discuss his spatial practice from across two decades of experience. Reflecting on the possible trajectories one might follow after architectural studies, Lambert explores the different contours through which architectural work has unfolded for him, including the founding of The Funambulist – a magazine that engages with the politics of space and bodies. Synthesising Lambert’s key interests and praxis, The Funambulist is a platform where activist, academic, and practitioner voices can meet and build solidarities across geographical scales.
Léopold Lambert is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist. He is a trained architect, as well as the author of four books that examine the inherent violence of architecture on bodies, and its political instrumentalization at various scales, and in various geographical contexts. He is the author of Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence (dpr-barcelona, 2012), Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall, and the Street (punctum, 2016) and La politique du Bulldozer: La ruine palestinienne comme projet israélien (B2, 2016). His most recent book is States of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum (Premiers Matins de Novembre, 2021).