Assoc. Prof. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Technion
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is an associate professor at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, where she heads the Aronson Built Heritage Research Center. She received her S.M.Arch.S. and PhD from MIT, and leading research institutes such as CASVA, the Getty/ UCLA Program, the Israel Science Foundation, and the Frankel Institute at the University of Michigan, supported her research. Her work on inter- and postwar architectural modernisms, including Erich Mendelsohn, I. M. Pei, “United Jerusalem,” “Whitened Tel Aviv,” historiography, and heritage has been published in journals such as Theory and Criticism, the Journal of Architecture, Architectural History, Perspecta, and TDSR, as well as in numerous anthologies. As the head of the Technion’s Architectural Program she led the transition required for implementing a new curriculum of M.Arch studies. She was the president of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), and co-chaired its conference “Histories in Conflict”. Her awards winning book Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2017.
Arch. Elad Horn (Ph.D. Candidate), Technion
Elad Horn is a Ph.D. candidate at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in the Big Data in Architectural Research Lab (BDAR), supervised by Dr. Or Aleksandrowicz. Elad received his Master of Design Studies (MDes) from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 2016, and his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2011. Elad’s research in the fields of History of Architecture and Digital Humanities examines the ways economic and spatial transformations in Tel Aviv-Yafo in the 1980s and 1990s generated new architectural idioms. From 2017 to 2020, Elad directed the Avie and Sarah Arenson Built Heritage Research Center at the Technion, and he is currently in charge of the center’s archive and collections. He teaches the built heritage research seminar of the final design project in architecture. Elad’s latest book, PoMo – Architecture of Privatization (2021), with Dr. Jeremie Hoffmann, documents the evolution of Tel Aviv-Yafo’s architectural landscape in the wake of Israel’s transition towards neoliberalism at the end of the 20th century.