What is forensic architecture? I look at conflict from a spatial perspective. My colleagues and I analyse the ruins of buildings or terrain to reconstruct what has taken place. We are like pathologists. Forensic Architecture is also the name of a research agency that I established in 2010. We investigate urban conflict and state-perpetrated violence. Increasingly, we also respond to commissions from international prosecutors, human rights groups and others. Why is there a need for this? It has become important because most wars are now taking place in cities, most civilians die in buildings and therefore buildings become evidence. This evidence can be needed for legal purposes or for advocacy reasons, or it might just be important simply to uncover the history of particular incidents.
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