Israeli Forests on Fire: The Political History of Pine Trees in Palestine
This last week, about 60,000 people had to flee from their homes in Haifa as forest fires were reaching the city outskirts. With the help of several countries’ firefighter crews (including four...
View ArticleThe Funambulist Event With Four Contributors on Dec. 7 – 7:30PM at NT’s bar...
The Funambulist presents: A conversation centered around the issues discussed in various issues of The Funambulist which articulates a critical discourse about the politics of the designed/built...
View ArticleThe Weaponized Architecture of Police Stations in the Paris Banlieues
The photographic series analyzing the architecture of police stations in the Paris banlieues as representative and reinforcing force of the degree of antagonism from the police to the residents of a...
View ArticleOn the Future of Palestine: Letter to My Liberal Friends
My dear liberal friends, I know; the term “liberal” probably worries you already, as it is generally used by people who think that your political positions (or the lack thereof) are either too...
View ArticleThe Funambulist 9 (January-February 2017) Islands Is Now Published + New Website
Dear readers of The Funambulist, I am very happy to wish you a joyful new year and to announce a double-launch today: like every two months, a new issue of the magazine is ready to be released and,...
View ArticleLaunch of The Funambulist 10 (Mar-Apr 2017) Architecture & Colonialism in...
The tenth issue of The Funambulist Magazine (Mar-Apr 2017) dedicated to “Architecture & Colonialism” will be released on March 1st, but Paris residents and visitors are invited to attend to its...
View ArticleThe Architecture of the State of Emergency in France (Harvard Design Magazine...
“The Architecture of the State of Emergency in France.” First published in Harvard Design Magazine, number 42 (Spring-Summer 2016) edited by Jennifer Sigler. In January 2015, two successive attacks in...
View ArticleA Spatial Report of the February 11 Banlieue Protest Against Police Violence...
On February 2, 2017, in the banlieue municipality of Aulnay-sous-Bois (North-East), 22-year-old Black man Théo L. was raped by a police officer, while three others were holding him. As of today, Théo...
View ArticleThe Funambulist 10 (March-April 2017) Architecture & Colonialism Is Now...
Dear readers of The Funambulist, The high frequency of publication of the magazine continues with, today, the release of the tenth issue of The Funambulist (March-April 2017) dedicated to Architecture...
View ArticleArchitects Accomplices of a Selective National(ist) Narrative of...
Earlier today, I encountered the presentation of a new building designed by well-known French architect Rudy Ricciotti in collaboration with Passelac & Roques on the popular website, Archdaily....
View ArticleGeneral Strike in Guiana: The Vanguard of France’s Decolonization Is in the...
Photograph above by Christel Bonard of Gwendolyne, holding the Guianan flag (thanks Lya Selma Zébus-Loubidika) You might or might not have heard about the general strike currently unfolding in Guiana....
View ArticleThe Battle Of…: Five Film/Books About the Algerian Revolution
The five following film/books dedicated to a specific aspect of the Algerian Revolution (1954-1962) from a fascinating historical series in which each new volume is engaged in a productive dialogue...
View ArticleThe Testimony of an Object: Le Pen and the French History of Violence
This article is published in parallel with Warscapes, thanks to Bhakti Shringarpure who asked me to write it and edited it. We are days away from the second round of the French Presidential elections...
View ArticleChrono-cartography of the October 17, 1961 Massacre of Algerians in Paris
Léopold Lambert – Paris on May 22, 2017 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! In my current research about the architecture of the five states of emergency...
View Article50 Years Later: A Map and Eleven Episodes of the 1967 Six Day War and the...
Léopold Lambert – Paris on June 8, 2017 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! As, this week, we are commemorating the fifty years of the six-day-long war engaged...
View ArticleIssue 12 “Racialized Incarceration” Is Published – Two Years of The...
NEW ISSUE! The small team of The Funambulist is happy to announce that the 12th issue of the magazine (July-August 2017) is now released. Racialized Incarceration constitutes a form of sequel to issues...
View Article50 Years Later: A Map and Eleven Episodes of the 1967 Six Day War and the...
Léopold Lambert – Paris on June 8, 2017 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! As, this week, we are commemorating the fifty years of the six-day-long war engaged...
View ArticlePalestine Report Part 1: The “Hebronization” of Jerusalem-Al Quds
Léopold Lambert – Paris on July 23, 2017 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! I just came back from a week in Palestine and will attempt to make a small report...
View ArticlePalestine Report Part 2: The Walled Refugee Camp of Shu’fat in Jerusalem
Léopold Lambert – Paris on July 25, 2017 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! This article is the second installment of a series of five that operate as a report...
View ArticlePalestine Report Part 3: Lifta, a Stone Evidence of the Nakba in Jerusalem
Léopold Lambert – Paris on August 1, 2017 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! This article is the third installment of a series of five that operate as a report...
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