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
Architecture and Protest: From Marginal Resistance to a Political Awakening in Mainstream Architecture
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
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
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
The Covid-19 pandemic has invited new observations and interpretations of domestic experiences, especially during its periods of quarantine and closure. Our study of people’s use ... Read more
Care ethics places a person’s relationship to another at the heart of related debates. Rooted in feminism, care ethics is a useful tool for exploring ... Read more
Architectural exhibitions make it possible to present political arguments through visual tools. The series of photos in the exhibition 'Separation' demonstrated how the logic of separation—as a political, cultural, and spatial concept—is innate to urban and rural landscape design in Israel.
Public housing projects have been replaced in recent years by “Pinuy-Binuy” entrepreneurial projects (a Hebrew term for forcing all tenants out once a homeowner threshold is met, and then tearing down the building to rebuild on the site) or, in its laundered name, "Urban Renewal", focused on the economic logic of maximizing entrepreneurs' private profits.
This article investigates aging-in-place among seniors who live with caretakers, particularly domestic workers who immigrate to Israel from poorer countries. In recent decades, new apartment designs are intended for families with children.
