The Undergraduate program in Architecture
התואר הראשון בארכיטקטורה
برنامج اللقب الأول في لهندسة المعمارية
Prof. Els Verbakel is a founding partner of Derman Verbakel Architecture and Head of the School of Architecture at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. She was a faculty member at the Technion in Haifa, Columbia University, NYC, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and Princeton University, New Jersey. Els has earned her PhD in Architecture from Princeton University, a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University, and a Graduate Degree in Civil Engineering and Architecture from the University of Leuven, Belgium. She served as the editor of two books: “In Search of the Public. Notes on the Contemporary American City” and “Constellations: Constructing Urban Design Practices” as well as the Architectural Design (AD) Magazine on the theme “Cities of Dispersal.”
Architect, lecturer and researcher, founder of inSIDEout Architects
Motto
Design like You Give a Damn!- Motivating change through architecture.
Responsibility for vulnerable communities, totality in design, proactivity, independence.
Questioning and researching the seam between inside and outside, either spatially, or socially and professionally. Meaning- work both from the inside out, and from the outside in, as a dynamic creative process of learning-working, which pushes the boundaries of the architectural practice.
Committed to a humane, sustainable and critical approach, in the rethinking of CONSERVATION, by developing the concept of "conservation with a lower-case c'", which challenges conservative formalistic approaches.
Selected CV
Research "Towards Conservation with a lower-case c' - Ajami, Jaffa Case Study" (Technion, 2014)
Water Tower Renewal & conservation 2010-2020
1st prize - international competition for alternative planning for Ein Hud -"An Existence of exile" was presented worldwide (AIA Istanbul 2005, Rotterdam Biennale 2007, Venice Biennale 2008)
Studies B.Arch Bezalel, and M.Sc. Technion (with distinction).
Social-professional engagement in the community (library, Beit-Am renovation, eco-park), and with NGO's (BIMKOM)
The 3rd teacher - a research-design studio, which bounds together space and advanced educational concepts.
Various Residential Projects.
Fields of interest
Conservation - Renovation - Reuse
Education and Cultural projects – design, design consulting for pedagogic institutions, Experience in complexed academic structures.
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.
Architect, educator, author and editor, co-founder of Babel press.
Photo Gallery
Noa Segev is an architect, designer, researcher, and educator with a deep commitment to expanding the boundaries of architectural thought and practice. After earning a B.Arch. from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem and an M.F.A. with distinction in Spatial Design and Performance from the Architectural Association, Noa has explored the intersections of architecture through collaborations with graphic designers, choreographers, new media artists, academics, and artists. Noa currently teaches at the Architectural Association, Bezalel Academy, and Shenkar College, where her courses range from guiding first-year studio to teaching a fifth-year final project studio as well as fundamental design and interdisciplinary courses. Her work, both independent and collaborative, has been exhibited internationally and recognized in competitions. Noa also works on collaborative projects in both curation and interior design.
A registered architect who specializes in Historic Preservation. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, in the Urban Design Master's Degree Program, and in the Department of Visual and Material Culture. Adi serves as Bezalel Project Coordinator for EDICULA - Educational Digital Innovative Cultural heritage related Learning Activities (Erasmus+ Project). Adi received her B.Arch from the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She holds a Diploma in Conservation of the Built Heritage from the Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University and Master of Art in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies from Rutgers University, N.J. Currently she is a PhD candidate at Sapienza University of Rome. She received the Bezalel Commendation for excellence in teaching (2021-22) She specializes in urban heritage, the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach, ethics in conservation, documentation, evaluation, and conservation consultation. She is the conservation consultant for the Reginal Planning Unit at the Israel Planning Administration, the Southern Region Planning Committee, and for Holon Municipality. She was the Conservation Policy Coordinator for the Israel Antiquities Authority. Adi is the Chairperson of the Cultural Routes Scientific Committee, ICOMOS Israel, a voluntarily position.
Computation design specialist. Founder and CEO Studio Chimera specializing in parametric architecture, digital design, planning and fabrication in a variety of projects in Israel and abroad. Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Bezalel since 2014 and teaches courses, seminars, workshops about computational design and programing. MA degree from the IAAC (Universidad Polytechnico Catalonia UPC); Master's degree + thesis (with Dean's honors) from the School of Architecture at Tel Aviv University; B.Arch. from the Bezalel Academy and a (BA) in history and philosophy from Tel Aviv University.) Winner of the LAKA competition (2016). His work was presented in key exhibitions and galleries around the world such as: MAXII Rome, Venice Biennale.
Architect, lecturer, doctoral student, and researcher. Teaches at Bezalel since 2015 in studio courses, spatial thinking and theoretical courses. Ohad's practical expertise ranges in scales - as an architect in the Senior Planning Division at the National Planning Administration, he designs national planning policies, and as an independent architect he works at the scale of the building, man and his environment. His theoretical expertise is in architectural theory, with special interest in theories of conceptual architecture in the second half of the 20th century.
Ohad's research focuses on what he calls "Hebraic architecture." In his research, Ohad collects, analyzes, decomposes and reconstructs texts from the Bible and the Sages in an attempt to find within them spatial conceptions, positions on planning, and unique characteristics of the Jewish architectural tradition, whose great lack in material tradition is compensated by coherent, continuous, rich and complex discourses on relevant topics.
Ohad is a graduate of the Department of Architecture with honors at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2014) and a Master of Architecture Summa Cum Laude in Tel Aviv University (2019). During his master’s degree he was awarded a scholarship for outstanding scholars of the Azrieli Foundation, for writing his thesis "The Biblical City Archetype in the Garden of Eden: Sacred Space as a Model for the Public Sphere."
His is one of the founders of the "Krach" reading club in the Department of Architecture, and "Merhav" forum for promoting of the quality of public space planning in Israel. He writes, edits, and translates text in architecture.
Osnat holds a Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) from Princeton University (2011), a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) (Honours) from the Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University (2007) and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science & Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2002).
Osnat teaches both at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art. Her book, Dreams about home – High rises and the continuing housing crisis in Israel, co-edited with Yehoshua Gutman and Elad Horn (Resling Publishing, 2017) won the third prize of the annual competition of AI magazine. She organizes the annual event "Envelopes Now" at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and other academic events.
Osnat Joined HQ in 2020 as a Team Leader & Project Manager. Prior to joining HQ Architects, Osnat worked at Gutman Assif Architects and Skorka Architects as a senior architect designing and executing projects, ranging from small scale design projects to very large architectural projects.
Jan Tandrevold (born 1961, Norway) is a lecturer at the Architecture Department at Bezalel and a co-owner and practicing architect at Arctic Architects in Jerusalem. He studied architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture (Diploma Program), painting at the Academy of Art and Design (SHKS) in Oslo and at the Jerusalem Studio School (JSS), and urban studies at the International Laboratory of Architecture & Urban Design (ILAUD) in Siena, Italy and at the Rotenberg School of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In his teaching, his aims to provide an advanced understanding of modern architecture, starting by exploring how Palladio as an architect made the ancient modern. Critical observation of modern architecture is conducted in order to illustrate the continuation of architectural concepts from earlier Greek and Roman architecture, via Palladio, the Renaissance and the Baroque. Providing a link to contemporary architecture, he investigates the architecture of early modernist architects (especially Le Corbusier), and next generation Nordic architects including Sverre Fehn, his former professor from Oslo. As an extension of his course, he has also for many years been initiating and involved in bringing student from the Bezalel Architecture Department to various study tours in Italy and Greece.
Yuval Yasky is an active architect, curator, researcher and educator, based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He holds a B.A in Philosophy and Art History from Tel Aviv University and a graduate degree in architecture from SCI Arc in Los Angeles, Ca. Yuval is a senior lecturer at the architecture department in Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, where he served as Head of the department from 2010 to 2018. Yuval’s research focuses on the rural hinterland and the Kibbutz in particular. He co-curated many exhibitions on the topic, among which are “Kibbutz: Architecture without Precedents” at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale and “Kibbutz Bauhaus Pioneers of the Collective” at the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau, Germany. Yuval have written and lectured extensively in distinguish international venues, such as The Graham Foundation in Chicago, Il., the CCA in Montreal, Ca., and Harvard University in Cambridge, Ma.
