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E-book Forensis : The Architecture of Public Truth
Considering the wide range of projects, scales, issues, and epistemic frames that the project ended up traversing, it is important to mention that Forensic Architecture had a modest start: it was inspired by the unassuming work of building surveyors—the careful and systemic analysis of the structural and infrastructural conditions of a building.17 Building surveyors understand a crucial thing missed by most architects: a building is not a static thing. Rather, its form is continuously undergoing transformations and in these transformations it registers external influences. The various material components of a building—steel, plaster, concrete, or wood—move at different speeds in response to the constant force of gravity, the influence of the climate, changing patterns of inhabitation and use, and the unique force of impact. These diffused form-making forces continue the singular form-making practice of the architect. Surveyors see buildings as matter undergoing complex processes of formation—as matter in formation, that is, as information. It is indeed in the material deformations and structural failures that micro and macro forces, political and historical processes might reveal themselves.
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