Undergraduate Program in Landscape Architecture
תואר ראשון באדריכלות נוף
برنامج اللقب الأول في هندسة المناظر الطبيعية
Elissa Rosenberg is a landscape architect and associate professor in the Graduate Program in Urban Design, and also an associate professor (emerita) at the University of Virginia, where she taught from 1989 – 2007 and served as Chair of the Landscape Architecture Department. Since relocating to Israel, she has taught at the Technion and Tel Aviv University. Her teaching and research focus on landscape as a cultural practice and a model for contemporary urbanism, tying together the separate discourses of urbanism, ecology and landscape design. She teaches studios and courses on urban landscapes and post-industrial landscapes in the undergraduate and graduate programs. Her research lies at the intersection of contemporary landscape architecture and urban design with a focus on cultural landscapes, post-industrial landscapes, green infrastructure and mobility. Her recent publications have focused on Israeli landscapes, include Tel Aviv’s seaside urbanism, and the kibbutz as a laboratory for Israeli landscape modernism.
Yael Bar-Maor is a founding partner of Berabim Landscape Architecture, a practice focused on the design and research of public open spaces. She serves as a faculty member at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem.
Yael holds a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in urban design from Bezalel. She contributed to the book 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know (2021), previously served as an editor of the Israeli Landscape Architecture magazine, and has published articles in the field.
In addition, Yael has lectured at international conferences, including ECLAS and IFLA.
Erez Golani Solomon is currently a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory at the Architecture Department and the Graduate Program in Urban Design of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He earned his Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Tokyo in 2006, and he is since involved in teaching and research projects in Japan, at the Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University, the Graduate Program of Global Studies of Sophia University, as well as Waseda University. His research work encompasses a range of issues concerning the contemporary city, and the ramifications of architectural developments under contemporary cultures and politics. Erez practices architecture as partner at the Tokyo based firm Front-Office. In 2020 and 2021 he held a Senior Research Fellow position at the Azrieli Architecture Archive of Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Dr. Rachel Gottesman is a historian of the ancient Mediterranean world and has a special interest in environmental history and spatial theory. Her PhD offered a spatial analysis of mythic cycles and a reconstruction of ancient maritime networks. She held a postdoctoral position at Haifa University and was head of the Research Lab at the Liebling Huse Tel Aviv. Gottesman is a co-curator of the Israeli Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale (opening May 2021). She publishes fiction and non-fiction in the fields of history, spatiality, architecture and literature.
Ariel Handel is an interdisciplinary researcher. Teaches political theory and urbanism at Bezalel, Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University. He is the director of the Lexicon for Political Theory project and co-editor of Mafteakh-Muftah: Lexical Review of Political Thought. Ariel has published numerous journal papers and book chapters on issues of space, politics, power and violence. He is the editor-in-chief of The Political Lexicon of the Social Protest (Hakibutz Hameuchad, 2012), and co-editor of Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements (Indiana University Press, 2017).
