The greatest crime ever committed by architects.

? Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt, exhibition principal and University Professor, University of Waterloo School of Architecture 
An examination of the chilling role architecture played in constructing Auschwitz, The Evidence Room is a powerful installation which reconstructs key objects used in the forensic analysis of the concentration camp’s architecture. Historian Robert Jan van Pelt introduced the objects as evidence in a court case to demonstrate that Auschwitz was purposefully designed as a death camp.
An evidence room is the place where evidence for a court examination of a crime can be securely stored until it can be used in the court case. Here, The Evidence Room is an exhibition that shows undeniable forensic architectural evidence that Hitler?s National Socialist government, the Nazis, designed and carried out the murder of over one million Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Holocaust. Interior perspective of The Evidence Room with models of Auschwitz gas column and gas-tight hatch, plaster casts and model of gas-tight door. Photo by Fred Hunsberger, University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Source: ROM.

Extended until September 3, the Royal Ontario Museum installation showcases the ground-breaking research that became a source for a new and emerging discipline?architectural forensics?encompassing architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.
The Evidence Room, constructed entirely in white,...