Professor Ines Weizman
- Professor of History and Theory of Architecture
- Head of PhD Programme
- Architecture MPhil/PhD
Ines Weizman is Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Architecture at the RCA and directs our Architecture PhD. She is the founding director of the Centre for Documentary Architecture (CDA), an interdisciplinary research collective comprised of architectural historians, filmmakers and digital technologists.
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 this position she directed the International Bauhaus-Colloquium and a series of conferences and exhibitions as part of the Bauhaus Jubilee in 2019. Between 2022-2024 she was also Professor of Architectural Theory and Design at the Academy of Fine Arts, Institute for Art and Architecture in Vienna.
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.
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Awards
Graham Foundation, Publication Grant 2024
Joséphine Baker and the Colonial Modern, Sternberg Press, 2025
The British Academy/ Leverhulme Small Research Grants Award 2021
Antoine Tabet (1907-1964). A Modernist Architect across the Sykes-Picot Line
Transfer Video Award 2021, Honorable Mention for A Short History of the Elevator Pitch
Colvin Prize of The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 2021, Shortlisted for Dust & Data: Traces of the Bauhaus across 100 Years
ArchiShort Film Award, 2020 for Bauhaus Beeline. Between Tel Aviv and the Golan Heights. (Centre for Documentary Architecture)
Transfer Video Award 2019, Shortlisted for 3 Hours by Car (Centre for Documentary Architecture)
Hans und Lea Grundig Prize 2015 for From the Second life. Documents of Forgotten Architectures (Centre for Documentary Architecture)
Publications, exhibitions, other outcomes
Publications
Weizman, Ines. (forthcoming, 2025). Joséphine Baker across the Colonial Modern, London: Sternberg Press
Weizman, Ines and Escherich, Mark. (forthcoming, 2025). Architectural Modernism in Erfurt and Haifa, Weimar: MBooks
Weizman, Ines. (2024). "Dissidents" in: Joseph Bedford (ed.) How is Architecture Political. Engaging Chantal Mouffe, Bloomsbury, pp.84-108.
Weizman, Ines. (2023). "Dissidenten-Ästhetik: Die mögliche Architektur der Regierten" in: Daniel Martin Feige and Sandra Meireis (eds)., Ästhetik und Architektur, Transcript Verlag, pp.439-458
Weizman, Ines. (2023). "Synchronised by Murder. The 1930 Killing of a Berlin Clockmaker" in: Maria Shéhérazade Giudici (ed.), AA Files 79, London: Architectural Association. pp. 60-69. (podcast version on Airaa)
Weizman, Ines. (2023). "Synchronised by Murder. The 1930 Killing of a Berlin Clockmaker" in: Ronit Porat Hunting in Time, Sternthal Books, pp. 60-69. (podcast version on Airaa)
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.
Film Essays
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, …”, 2023 (16 min)
A Short History of the Elevator Pitch, 2021 (5 min)
Deep White, 2019 (35 min), Centre for Documentary Architecture
Bauhaus Beeline. Between Tel Aviv and the Golan Heights. 2020 (2 min), Centre for Documentary Architecture)
3 Hours by Car, 2019 (5min), Centre for Documentary Architecture
Exhibitions
La Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale, Gender & Geography (2023), curated by Lesley Lokko
Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, “Josephine Baker. Icon in Motion” (26.01.-01.05.2024), curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Kandis Williams
Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, AFTER RAIN, (20.02.-24.05.2024), curated by Ute Meta Bauer
(2023) The Children's Forest Pavilion (Commissioner of the Lithuanian Pavilion to The Biennale Architettura 2023), Curators: Jurga Daubaraitė, Egija Inzule, Jonas Žukauskas (with the Centre for Documentary Architecture)
(2020-) Licht, Luft & Viren. The Architectural Arms Race to Conquer Berlin’s Sky. Berlin Triennale of Modernism
(2019, 2019, 2020, 2022) The Matter of Data. Bauhaus Museum Weimar, Liebling Haus – The White City Center, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Satelit. Architekturgalerie, Berlin, Fundação Instituto Marques da Silva, Porto
