Radically Public Architecture The replanning of the Japanese communities after the earthquakes in 2011 giving municipalities the largest decision making power, which left no formal role for architects or architecture. This led to top down large scale reform like...
Home Planning and Gender in Mandatory Palestine This article dives into the relationship between architecture and gender in Palestine. It explains the influx of the German population in Palestine led to the transfer of European ideas from architects who were trained...
Summary of “Home Planning and Gender in Mandatory Palestine” In this essay, Sigal Davidi discusses the discourse on home planning in Eratz Yisrael in the late 1920s and 1930s, specifically focusing on the design of kitchens as a women’s issue....
Author: Alex S. Summary of Home Planning and Gender in Mandatory Palestine by Sigal Davidi Lotte Cohn was the first woman to practice architecture in Eretz Yisrael in 1921 and promoted domestic planning in homes. Cohn later opened her own firm in Tel Aviv. European...
Summaries The Israeli ‘Place’ in East Jerusalem by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan This article focuses on the architectural practices that empowered the first Israeli-born generation; the generation entrusted with Israelizing Jerusalem after the 1967 War. The Sabra...
