This Year’s Dori Award Presented to Students and Graduates of the School of Architecture

Students and graduates of the Bezalel School of Architecture are the winners of the Dori Award for Emerging Israeli Architecture for 2024.

The Dori Award for Emerging Israeli Architecture is presented annually to registered architects and architecture students for architectural creation on themes dealing with the challenges of Zionism and contemporary Israeli architecture. This year’s theme was “Civil and Combat Society in Israel – New Spaces.” The current reality presents Israelis with challenges and opportunities stemming from the need for the integration of Israeli civil society and combat society, and the goal of this year’s competition was to imagine new spaces for Israeli civil/combat society. What are its needs? What are the events unique to it? How can its unique strengths be enhanced, and what are its aims? How can Israeli architecture contribute to the rehabilitation of society and the building of resilience?

Second place was awarded to the architect Yuval Yadlin, a graduate of the School of Architecture, for her project “Shvil Mifgash (Meeting Path/Trail).” Yuval exhibited great sensitivity in her creation of a collection of healing spaces that stem from the body, intended for healing citizens and soldiers.  In her choice of materials and design, one feels the spirit of kibbutz architects such as Shmuel Mestechkin. In the current context, this association takes on a new semblance.

Honorable mentions went to architect Dvir Mor Shoshani, a graduate of the School of  Architecture, for the project “One Nation”; architects Libat Eden and Nir Feferberg, graduates of the School of Architecture, for the project “Kfar Izun” (Izun [Bringing Back the Balance] Village); and architecture students Shiran Mordechai, Dean Levy and Yonatan Hai Arad for the project “Therapeutic Land”.

Prof. Ohad Sorek, lecturer and graduate of the School of Architecture, and Prof. Marom Kleiman, graduate of the School of Architecture initiated the award. Prof. Daniel Mintz, lecturer at the School of Architecture, took part in this year’s selection committee.