The Event of Void

Architecture and Politics in the Evacuated Heygate Estate

Master Thesis + Project
Goldsmiths, University of London
Sep 2010 – Sep 2011

Role: Author, Project Lead
Supervision: Eyal Weizman, Paulo Tavares.
Booklet design by Maximage

NOW-HERE final
The evacuated Heygate estate, South London. View of intervention (June 2011).

“Left to rot for years in such a public setting, the Heygate’s corpse is assigned a clear role: to narrate its own defeat, and to redirect our gaze towards a more glittering horizon.”

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