The Department of Architecture at The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design aspires to be at once critical and relevant.
As such, it has positioned itself to play a pivotal role, across all scales of contemporary architectural practice and discourse, actively engaging in the fields of regional and landscape planning, urbanism and city life, architecture, building technologies and the culture of construction. As an academic center Bezalel fosters investigations, applied research, original production, critical discussion, joint ventures and active involvement in both local and global challenges.
The Department aspires to develop an effective academic model that is measured not only by its scholarly standards and the quality of its students' projects, but also by its broader impact on the culture, public debate and architectural discourse in Israel. Bezalel’s specific commitment to active involvement in Israeli culture and politics serves as a platform for ongoing communication and collaborations with academic and professional institutions around the world.
The Department is first and foremost directed towards the training of attentive, rigorous, multi-skilled architects based on affording a rounded education across conceptual, technological and performative aspects of architecture.
This objective is a mandatory prerequisite and an essential foundation for the realization of a more ambitious goal: the education of a conscientious generation of intellectual architects: graduates who possess a broad humanist worldview; individuals who are both original and prolific; citizens actively involved in the political and social life; assertive planners who aspire to redefine the architect's fields of knowledge and responsibilities to meet the constantly evolving global challenges of the 21st century.