The Speech of Things
When objects are called on to give legal testimony, it forces lawyers, architects and designers to rethink their practices.
Léopold Lambert
is an architect, writer and editor of the blog The Funambulist and coordinator of its podcast platform Archipelago. He is the author of Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence (dpr-barcelona, 2012), the twelve first volumes of The Funambulist Pamphlets, as well as the forthcoming Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall, and the Street. He believes that architecture is the discipline that organizes bodies in space and that each of the words of this definition is worth spending a life examining.