Ines Weizman is the founding director of the Centre for Documentary Architecture (CDA), an interdisciplinary research collective comprised of architectural historians, filmmakers and digital technologists. Since 2022 she is also Professor of Architectural Theory and Design at the Academy of Fine Arts, Institute for Art and Architecture in Vienna.
Weizman was trained as an architect at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Ecole d’Architecture de Belleville in Paris, Cambridge University, and the Architectural Association where she completed her PhD thesis in History and Theory. She taught at the Architectural Association, Goldsmiths College London, the Berlage Institute of Architecture in Rotterdam and London Metropolitan University. Before joining the RCA Weizman was professor of architectural theory at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and director of the Bauhaus Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and Planning. In 2016 and 2019 she directed the International Bauhaus-Colloquium and a series of conferences and exhibitions as part of the Bauhaus Jubilee in 2019.
Among her most recent publications are Dust&Data. Traces of the Bauhaus across 100 Years (2019), Documentary Architecture/ Dissidence through Architecture (2020) and 100+: Neue Perspektiven auf die Bauhaus-Rezeption (2021). Weizman’s ‘documentary methods’ developed, theorised, and presented in writings, film projects, lectures and exhibitions emerged in the context of her research on the history of international modernism and Bauhaus architecture history as well as in international research and design projects that involved experimental preservation projects and heritage theory. Her current work together with the research collective of the CDA is dealing with the history of modern architecture and design, particularly with issues of migration and colonial modernism. With the CDA she curated the exhibition The Matter of Data. Tracing the Materiality of “Bauhaus-Modernism”, which was shown in Weimar, Tel Aviv and Berlin.
More details on her work on the PhD Programme website.
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Awards
Transfer Video Award 2021, Honorable Mention for 'A Short History of the Elevator Pitch'
Ines' book Dust & Data: Traces of the Bauhaus across 100 Years was shortlisted for the 2021 Colvin Prize of The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.
ArchiShort Film Award, 2020
Bauhaus Beeline. Between Tel Aviv and the Golan Heights.
(Centre for Documentary Architecture)
TRANSFER FILM AWARD, 2019 (Shortlisted)
(Centre for Documentary Architecture)
Hans und Lea Grundig Prize, 2015
(Centre for Documentary Architecture)
Publications, exhibitions, other outcomes
Publications
Weizman, Ines. (chapter) (2021). Dast, Data and Documentary Architecture. In: Ric Allsopp and Serge von Arx (eds.), Reframing Memory: Our Gruesome Cultural Heritage. (Norwegian Theatre Academy/ Østfold University College, 2021), pp. 101-118.
Weizman, Ines. (ed.) (2021). 100+ : Neue Perspektiven auf die Bauhaus-Rezeption Mit einem Vorwort von Ines Weizman. Berlin: Jovis Verlag.
Weizman, Ines. (2020). Documentary Architecture. Dissidence through Architecture, Arquitectura Documental. Disidencia a Través de la Arquitectura. Santiago de Chile: ARQ Editiones.
Weizman, Ines. (ed.) (2019). Dust & Data: Traces of the Bauhaus across 100 Years. Leipzig: Spector Books.
Weizman, Ines. (ed.) (2014). Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence. New York, London: Routledge.
Weizman, Ines and Weizman, Eyal. (2014). Before and After: Documenting the Architecture of Disaster. Moscow, London: Strelka Press.
Weizman, Ines and Jorge Otero-Pailo (eds.) (2015). Preservation and Copyright. Journal Future Anterior. Volume 13, University of Minnesota Press.
Weizman, Ines (ed.) (2014). Dissidence. Journal Architecture and Culture, Volume 2, Issue 1, Berg Publishers.
Essays/ Reviews
Weizman, Ines. (book review) (2019). Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900–1933, Robin Schuldenfrei. In: The Burlington Magazine. May 2019. 1394 - Vol 161, pp. 436-437.
Weizman, Ines. (2019). Black Coloured White/ Schwarz Gefärbtes Weiß. In: Hannes Sulzenbacher und Hanno Loewy (eds.), All about Tel Aviv- Jaffa. Die Erfindung einer Stadt, pp. 200-208.
Weizman, Ines. (2019). Dokumentarische Architektur: Digitale Historiografien der Moderne. In: ARCH+ 234, Datatopia, 2019, pp. 198–209.
Weizman, Ines. (2019). Archives Fever – Adolf Loos in Palestine. In: Jörg Stabenow, Ronny Schüler (eds.), The Transfer of Modernity - Architectural Modernism in Palestine 1923–1948, Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag. pp. 33–47.
Weizman, Ines. (2019). Auf den Spuren der "Bauhaus-Moderne". Zur Geschichte und Wirkung einer Schule. In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte. Bauhaus, Zeitschrift der Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 69. Jahrgang, 13-14/ 2019, 25. März 2019, pp. 9-14.
Weizman, Ines. (2018). Documentary Architecture. The Digital Historiographies of Modernism. In: Faktur. Documents and Architecture, Issue 1, Fall 2018, pp. 6–25.
Weizman, Ines. (2018). Documentary Architecture and the History of »Before and After« Photography. In: Moritz Neumüller (ed.). The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture. New York, London: Routledge. pp. 69-82.
Weizman, Ines. (2018). Architecture's Internal Exile. Experiments in Digital Documentation of Adolf Loos’s Vienna Houses. In: Architectural Design, Volume 88, Issue 3, Architecture and Freedom: Searching for Agency in a Changing World. London: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. pp. 32-39.
Weizman, Ines. (2017). Architecture and Copyright: Rights of Authors and Things in the Age of Digital Reproduction. In: Amanda Reeser Lawrence, Ana Miljački (eds.). Terms of Appropriation: Modern Architecture and Global Exchange, New York, London: Routledge, pp. 141 – 159.
Weizman, Ines. (2017). Als die Architekten die Revolution verließen. Regimekritiker und Dissidenz in der DDR und Osteuropa vor 1989. In: Nina Gribat, Philip Misselwitz, Matthias Görlich (eds.). Vergessene Schulen. Architekturlehre zwischen Reform und Revolte um 1968, Leipzig: Spector Books, pp. 291 – 306.
Weizman, Ines. (2017). Läänemere atlase projekt. The Baltic Atlas Project. In: Estonian Urbanists' Review 19 / Deep Baltic, pp. 52-62.
Weizman, Ines. (2017). Derechos de la cosa. Thing rights. In: ARQ 95, pp. 30-39.
Weizman, Ines. (2016). Fahrenheit 2400°. The Second Life of Luis Barragán. In: Jill Magid, The Proposal, Sternberg Press. pp. 136-148.
Weizman, Ines. (2016). Interview, In: Thordis Arrhenius (ed.), Experimental Preservation, Lars Müller Publishers, pp. 80-85.
Weizman, Ines. (2016). Exception to the Norm. Buildings and Skeletons in the Work of Ernst Neufert. In: Perspecta 49, QUOTE, MIT Press, 2016, pp. 136-148.
Weizman, Ines. (2016). The Baltic Atlas Project. In: The Baltic Atlas, Berlin: Sternberg Press. pp. 214-224.
Weizman, Ines. (2015). Zeitbilder. Dokumentarische Architektur und die Geschichte der »Vorher und Nachher« Fotografie / Images of Time. Documentary Architecture and the History of »Before and After« Photography. In: Stefan Koppelkamm (ed.), Häuser Räume Stimmen / Houses Rooms Voices, Berlin: Hatje Cantz. pp. 62-73.
Weizman, Ines. (2015). Bauhaus on the Golan. Notes towards an Architectural History of the Sykes-Picot Line. In: Bauhaus Magazin, Volume 7. KOLLEKTIV. pp. 112-120.
Weizman, Ines. (2014). The Three Lives of Modern Architecture: Wills, Copyrights and their Violations. In: Arrhenius, Lending, Miller, und McGowan (eds.) Exhibiting Architecture. Place and Displacement, Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers. pp.183-196.
Weizman, Ines. (2014). Thing Rights. The Second After-Life of Architecture. In: Ana Miljacki (ed.): Under the Influence, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp.110- 121, pp.122-132.
Weizman, Ines. (2014). Tuning into the Void. The aurality of Adolf Loos’s Architecture. In: Do you read me?, Harvard Design Magazine, 2014, pp.8-16.
Weizman, Ines. (2012). Architectural Doppelgängers. In: Thomas Weaver (ed.). AA Files 65. London: Architectural Association. pp. 19-24.
Weizman, Ines. (2012). Dissidence through Architecture. In: Kurt Evans, Iben Falconer, Ian Mills, Perspecta 45: Agency, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp.27-38.
Weizman, Ines. (2012). Mobilizing Dissent. The Possible Architecture of the Governed. In: Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns, Hilde Heynen (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, London: Sage Publications Ltd. pp. 107-120.
Weizman, Ines. (2009). Architecture’s Political Spectacles: Revolutionary Reenactment and the Urban Arms Race in Cold War Berlin. In: Thomas Weaver (ed.) AA Files 59, London: Architectural Association. pp. 60-69.
Weizman, Ines. (2008). Arms Race, Architectural. In: Wörterbuch des Krieges. Dictionary of War, Merve Verlag Berlin, 2008, pp. 315-327
Exhibitions
(2019, 2019, 2020) The Matter of Data. Bauhaus Museum Weimar, Liebling Haus – The White City Center, Tel Aviv- Yafo, Satelit. Architekturgalerie, Berlin.
(2012, 2013, 2013) Repeat Yourself: Loos, Law, and the Culture of the Copy, Venice Architecture Biennale, Architecture Centre in Vienna, the Buell Center at Columbia University, New York.
Other research and exhibition projects include:
(2008, 2013, 2019), Celltexts: Books and Other Works Produced in Prison, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Berlin, Venice, Berlin.
