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.
The Ph.D research paper addresses the relations between the ethical, social and aesthetic aspects of architecture in Israel, and their manifestation in architectural projects planned ... Read more
The story of outside paving and interior tiling in Tel-Aviv follows several types of standard tiles. This paper will propose an explanatory framework that will provide explanations for the various changes of the standard tiling: aesthetic-technological-functional changes, as well as social-economic extra-architectural changes.
The exhibition "Urban Space 2011 Stepping Out is a manifestation of the return to the broad definition of architecture which includes social objectives, after years in which the profession appeared to be bound by market forces .
