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Curiosity | Architecture of Israel 103 | February 2016 | page english
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awards & competitions
The Pritzker Prize for Architecture was
awarded this year to Chilean architect,
Alejandro Aravena. According to the
judges, Alejandro represents a new trend
in architecture where aesthetics has an
independent existence. Hence, if one looks
carefully at the details of his buildings,
one can realize without much effort that
there isn’t much beyond it. Aravena who
will curate the 2016 Venice Architecture
Biennale designed alter alia the Siamese
Towers at the Catholic University of Chile,
some Chilean public housing, and student
dormitories in Austin, Texas.
Ella Amitai Sadowski was awarded this year
the Anne and Ari Rosenblatt Prize for Israeli
plastic artists. The prize includes public
relations, NIS 15,000 and a solo exhibition
to be held in June, 2016, at Artists’ House.
Rishon LeZion Municipality and the
Architects Association have announced
an open competition for urban planning,
architectural design and development at the
main entrance to the Narkis neighborhood
(previously the Tzrifin military camp).
Judges:
Architect Gaby Schwartz (chair), Mayor Dov
Zur, city CEO Franco Gonen, city engineer
Eli Yahalom, Director of Education Shosh
Nahum, architect Perla Kaufman, architect
Sinan Abdel-Qader, and architect Arie
Gonen (Secretary). First prize NIS 60,000,
second prize NIS 40,000, third prize NIS
20,000, and two honorary mentions NIS
10,000 each.
Submission deadline - 22/03/2016 by 16:00,
at the Architects Association, 15 Hamigdalor
St., Jaffa.
Mevasseret Zion Council and the Architects
Association announced a young architects
competition for the local conservatorium.
Judges:
Architects: Batia Svirsky Malul (Chair), Liran
Chechick, Merom Sinvani Council engineer,
Jonathan Lovell, Arie Gonen (Secretary) as
well as Yossi Habas, Shlomit Nachshon,
and Bezalel Kupervaser. First prize - NIS
30,000, second prize - NIS 15,000 and two
third prizes of NIS 5000.
Submission deadline - Thursday, 7/4/2016
by 16:00 at the Architects Association, 15
Hamigdalor St., Jaffa.
The Wilmotte Foundation has announced
a student and young architects competition
for the design of a bridge building and
southern gate in Paris. Finalists’ projects
will be presented at the Foundation Gallery
in Venice and published in a book devoted
to the competition. Submission deadline -
21/3/16. Awards, 7,000, 5,000, and 2,000
euros. Judging: TBA.
Details:
The Holon Municipality and the Israel
Museum of Caricature and Comics,
awarded this year's Golden Pencil Award
to illustrator, comic artist, caricaturist Mira
Friedman, for her tremendous contribution
to the development of the field of illustration
and comics in Israel in the past four
decades. A lecturer at WIZO Haifa, Shenkar
and Bezalel, Mira was one of the “Actus”
Group founders that created a break-
through during the 90's for Israeli comics in
the international arena.
events
Architect Dan Handel was appointed curator
of the Design and Architecture Pavilion at
the Israel Museum. Handel – a Ph.D student
at the Technion Faculty of Architecture, was
editor of Manifest - a journal of American
architecture and urbanism, curated several
international exhibitions, including Aircraft
Carrier, presented in the Israeli Pavilion at
the 13th Venice Biennale for Architecture.
The Pavilion was founded and headed by
Izika Gaon for twenty years, followed by
Alex Ward, who retired in 2012.
exhibitions
The exhibition Circles of Life at the Old
Jaffa Museum exhibits works by painter
and photographer Sarah Geiger-Ginor - a
familiar figure on Israeli television. Curator
Ziona Shimshi says that Ginor’s large
paintings and photographs are tempestuous,
arousing both questions and identification,
and she usually knows what she‘s talking
about. Closing: 05/03/16, 10 Mifratz Shlomo
promenade, Old Jaffa.
Works by the artist Nihad Dabit - the first
Arab to be accepted to the Talma Yellin high
school in Givatayim in 1984 - were exhibited
at the Hankin Gallery in Holon. Dabit, who
spent some time in jail for using light drugs
in Greece, sculpts with wire and pieces of
barbed fence - materials symbolizing for him
the restriction of freedom. He contends that
art doesn’t have to be beautiful, it just has to
tell a story... to touch. And he is right - this is
also true of people.
The exhibition, “Skies and Beyond”/ the
boundless imagination of artist Lala Vidra-
Yanor presents a variety of works in
compound materials centered around the
constantly changing skies.
Curator: Daniela Talmor.
Closing: 24/02/2016. Chagall Artists' House,
24 Hatzionut Boulevard, Haifa. 04-8522355.
"Emperor Hadrian Returns to Jerusalem"
- an exhibition at the Israel Museum in
collaboration with the Louvre Museum,
presents the only three surviving bronze
sculptures of the Roman Emperor Publius
Aelius Hadrianus who razed Judaea to the
ground, renaming it “Palestina”.
Curators: David Mevorah, Rachel Caine-
Kreinin, and Thorsten Opper.
Closing: 30/06/16.
Roots and Wings - solo exhibition of Yonit
Kristal who deals with preserving artistic
objects and traditional weaving crafts rooted
in the history of Israel.
Hankin Gallery, Holon.
Closing: 05/03/16.
students
The Azrieli student prize was awarded this
year to Liz Leibowitz from the Technion for
her work, “Musha Musha: Anew observation
of the Hatikva Neighborhood.” Noa Gantz
won second place for her work, “Minus 400:
Rethinking Man/Environment Encounters
at the Dead Sea.” Third place went to Amit
Chelouche of Bezalel for his work, “Total
Stage.”
Students from the Department of Ceramic
and Glass Design at Bezalel presented
various interpretations of the Mashrabiya
– a traditional Arab shading and separation
device. The exhibition was shown at the
Bezalel School of Architecture.
books
Anyone heard of a good book lately…?
That's all for now. Write.
Rachel