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Jan 1, 2025, 2:10 PM
The social mission of architecture
Architects have the responsibility not only to create physical forms but also to serve as advocates for improving social conditions, especially at this time when Israel is rapidly being transformed by a tidal wave of residential towers inappropriate to...
Dec 23, 2024, 4:33 PM
Restoring the status of the architectural profession
A cluster of major problems have led to the loss of the status of the profession of architecture in Israel. As if "geographers" and architectural technicians taking over positions previously held by architects weren't enough, most recently lawyers were...
Dec 8, 2024, 4:41 PM
The man who made public life the primary goal of urban design
Largely unknown to city and transportation planners in Israel, public life never high (or non-existent) on their agenda, is world-renowned Danish architect, professor and author Jan Gehl. He credits Jane Jacobs, whose book "The Death and Life of Great American...
Dec 3, 2024, 9:53 AM
The shortest distance between 2 points isn’t a straight line
The Line" is the flagship project of NEOM, an urban area presently being built in Saudi Arabia at the Red Sea's northern tip. The projects stated goal: diversification of the kingdom's economy and industry which is based almost entirely...
Nov 18, 2024, 7:01 AM
Dubai: All that money can’t buy
One of the most highly reputed architectural historians of our time, Kenneth Frampton, predicted the global mass consumer trend in architecture more than 40 years ago in his famous paper entitled "Towards a Critical Regionalism." To resist this culture he...
Oct 10, 2024, 6:39 PM
A questionnaire for mayors and tower developers
For more than 30 years now Israeli cities have been inundated with mainly a single building type - residential point blocks, free-standing towers ,most with four apartments surrounding an elevator core. This phenomenon, still not understood by many today,...
Aug 21, 2024, 1:13 PM
UNRWA’s Maalot Dafna compound in Jerusalem must be evacuated
UN Secretary General Guterres dismissal of the heinous acts of the Black Shabbat massacre and indifference to the sexual violence, in a statement he has not retracted, enraged our government. United Nations Relief and Works Agency employees participated in...
May 15, 2024, 5:13 PM
A proposal for a viable tall buildings and density policy
Britain's leading think tank – "Policy Exchange" based in London, thinks new standards, legally binding, for guiding and controlling tall building developments are urgently needed. These are set out in their recent publication entitled "Tall Buildings: A Policy Framework...
Apr 26, 2024, 5:28 AM
Design for a neighborhood based on social open space
The design for a neighborhood in Northwest Beer-Sheva briefly described below was approved but not built, its client, the Ministry of Housing. Methodology: architects were given a pre-prepared outline master plan plus programs, the neighborhood subdivided into four parts. Bi-weekly...
Apr 17, 2024, 10:29 AM
Artificial intelligence and the future of architecture
While AI offers some advantages for the architectural profession, there are innumerable and potentially disastrous downsides. AI is certainly here to stay and will impact the field of architecture big time. As most tasks in architectural offices are of...
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Gerard Heumann is an architect and town planner in Jerusalem.
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