Shelly Cohen is an architect, curator, researcher, and writer based in Israel. She focuses on the social and ethical dimensions of architecture. Her projects critically explore how planning and design affect users and shape everyday life.

2025Portfolio

Machine learning can assist architects in designing public housing; urban mining can prevent unnecessary demolition and the waste of new materials; there are possible solutions ... Read more

2025Bread and Roses

A new exhibition marking 25 years of activity by Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights On Wednesday, April 9, 2025, the exhibition Home.Place | بيت.مكان ... Read more

2025Xargol and Modan

Architecture has always been designed for the centers of power in society. Architects—who are dependent on governmental and municipal planning authorities, as well as on ... Read more

2024Erev Rav

Four proposals for the Venice Architecture Biennale from the past decade address planning-based strategies aimed at shaping spatial power relations or improving quality of life—through ... Read more

2025The Hebrew Writers Association in Israel

  In her new book “Home and the Uncanny”, Dr. Sigal Eden Almogi introduces in Chapter 3 the concept of “psycho-spatial resilience.” Cohen and Eden ... Read more

2023Routledge

Do architects care? Caring can be understood as an emotion at odds with the requirements of professional architects. Compassion and empathy motivate other kinds of ... Read more

2021Resling

After decades of neoliberal economic policy, a new phase began in the critical discourse in architecture in the early 21st century, which is reflected in ... Read more

2022Architect's House Gallery

A new exhibition summarizing 20 years of activity at the Architect’s House Gallery, rearrange the archive of topics discussed in the exhibitions, and examines the ... Read more

2005Architect's House Gallery

The Israeli space is characterized by ethnic, national, and class divisions. Spatial demarcation distinguishes between Jews and Arabs, Mizrahi Jews and Ashkenazi Jews, rich and ... Read more