Master's Program in Urban Design (M.Urb.Des)
התכנית לתואר שני בעיצוב אורבני
برنامج اللقب الثاني في التصميم الحضري
An Architect in practice and in academia with vast knowledge and experience in Architecture and Urban Design.
Noa has been a lecturer for over a decade in the Architecture department and is also currently the academic coordinator of the master’s degree in Urban Design. She was in charged of “Tempus” program, a European program for higher education.
Noa holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the "de la ville et des territoires" school in Paris, which was then followed by several years of international practice experience both in France and New-York. Abroad Noa has worked on a variety of scales, from the MDU – Mobile Dwelling Unit, which was exhibited in the Whitney museum in NY, to a large public realm in the French city of Rennes. Back in Israel, Noa has worked on some of Israel’s most significant regeneration projects, such as central Netanya and the new development of North-West Tel Aviv.
Since 2010 Noa has her own practice and is also a senior consultant to the Jerusalem Planning Authority overseeing some of their major projects such as the new Entrance to Jerusalem Masterplan.
Prof. Dr. Zvi Efrat, Architect and Architectural Historian, is partner at Efrat-Kowalsky Architects (EKA) and was Head of the Department of Architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2002-2010). He holds B.Arch. from Pratt Institute, MA. In Cinema Studies from NYU and PhD. In Architectural History and Theory from Princeton University. He has taught and lectured worldwide, published extensively and curated numerous exhibitions.
His book, The Israeli Project: Building and Architecture 1948-1973, was published in Hebrew in 2004 by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His book The Object of Zionism, The Architecture of Israel was published by Spector Books, Leipzig, in 2018.
Among the recent projects of Efrat-Kowalsky Architects (EKA): Performing Arts Campus in Jerusalem: The Israel Museum in Jerusalem (renewal and expansion); City Museum of Tel Aviv (preservation and new additions): The Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art; The Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Tamar Berger, Senior Lecturer, The Department of Architecture, the Urban Design Master's Degree Program, Oman - the Heredi Extension and the Visual & Material Culture Department. Teaches and writes on issues of space, space and culture, urbanity and modernity in general in the Israel context. Her books: "Dionysus at Dizengof Centre" (Hakibbutz Hameuchad), "Issues in the Theory of Space" (The Open University), "In the Space Between World and Toy" (Resling) and "Autotopia" (Hakibbutz Hameuchad). More articles, essays and travelogues at www.tamarberger.com.
Sa'ar holds a BA in Architecture from Bezalel, who graduated with honors and a Master's degree in Urban Design.
He is the founder of an architectural firm called SGLarchitecture.
The firm SGLarchitecture was founded by Sa'ar in 2014 and since then has been involved in projects ranging from villas, residential, Tama 38, public buildings, commerce and offices and specializes in urban planning and urban renewal.
The firm aims to initiate a new perspective and ways of looking at the space in which we live.
Sa'ar is the head of the interior design program in Bezalel and a lecturer at the academy's Architecture Department for many years.
Erez Golani Solomon is currently a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory at the Architecture Department and the Graduate Program in Urban Design of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He earned his Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Tokyo in 2006, and he is since involved in teaching and research projects in Japan, at the Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University, the Graduate Program of Global Studies of Sophia University, as well as Waseda University. His research work encompasses a range of issues concerning the contemporary city, and the ramifications of architectural developments under contemporary cultures and politics. Erez practices architecture as partner at the Tokyo based firm Front-Office. In 2020 and 2021 he held a Senior Research Fellow position at the Azrieli Architecture Archive of Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Architect, Town Planner and Conservation Consultant. The head of the conservation unit, and a senior lecturer -at the Department of Architecture Bezalel. Between his works :Policy and conservation management for Jerusalem municipality, preservation of Zichron Yakov historic center ,Planning policy for Allenby street in Tel Aviv and the visitors center of Masada.
Shmuel is a founding member of Bimkom-"Planners for Planning Rights", Graduated the Technion in Haifa (1978) and studied his Msc at the LSE in London (2006), and finished his PHD (2024) at the Ben Gurion University o, on the subject of: The "Wandering Archive" in Contested Heritage Sites" ,focusing on heritage and conservation of Palestinian towns inside Israel, the test case of Jerusalem Boulevard in Jaffa.