Dr. Arch.‎ Liat Savin

Liat Savin Ben Shoshan, Ph.D. A writer and scholar who focuses on the material, socio-political and methodological interrelations of architecture and urban space, and visual images – analogical and digital, still and moving images. She writes researches and teaches on film, politics and space, and on film as means of understanding the history and present of the built environment. She is doing her postdoctoral research on Israeli architect and urbanist Itzhak Perlstein in the 1930s-1950s at the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning (2020-2021).

She has published in academic peer reviewed journals on documentary diary film and domestic space, on architecture and its reflection in film in the mid-century eras of post war and nation building, and has edited an issue of an online journal on architecture and documentary film. Teaches at Bezalel, at the faculty of Architecture and Town Planning in the Technion, Haifa, and at Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Arts.