Léopold Lambert

Léopold Lambert is a trained architect, turned into a writer, editor, and podcaster. He is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist, a magazine dedicated to the politics of space and bodies, associated to a blog and a podcast. His research examines the inherent violence of architecture and its unavoidable instrumentalization by political formations. He is the author of three books on the matter: Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence (dpr-barcelona, 2012), Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall, and the Street (punctum books, 2015), and La politique du bulldozer: La ruine palestinienne comme projet israélien (B2, 2016). His main fields of investigations are Palestine, the French banlieues, Fortress Europe and U.S. cities.