Jan Tandrevold

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.