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קטגוריית סטודנטים
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happy birthday
Is birthday male or female... a rhetorical question of course, but since at least half the population seriously
asks, when is your birthday, referring to it as feminine, and since spoken grammar is getting worse, and due
to the fact that language is the most prominent sign of the loss of our culture, I decided to act before our dear
Hebrew commits suicide in front of our eyes.
My grandmother used to say that the difference between the genders is that one likes to give and the other to
get, and evidently he likes to "give her a smack on the head" and she... "gets a headache".
I wouldn’t make a fuss about it and certainly not devote my editorial to it, had it not been the 31st anniversary
of Architecture of Israel. Flooded with congratulations from people who believe it is my own 31st anniversary,
I began to believe it myself… but to be honest, one cannot ignore the fact it is about a professional magazine
which, for the last three decades, has led the return of the simple, clean design line in an era where so many
"octopuses" are vomited out of the computer. And this is not a walk in the park, or a ride on an electric korkinet,
which in our childhood was noisy and propelled by foot, a foot we barely step on today, since everything is
done online - except for my grandmother.
And it’s not getting any easier, due to the fact that guys under 31 (mainly students who hold the future of
architecture in their hands), don’t really distinguish between a hasty sentence on the web that can be changed
at the speed of a “like”, and a meticulously printed magazine where every word is measured and weighed a
hundred times, knowing that it will inevitably last forever.
And this is actually in our favor since freedom
of expression is radically impaired (for
reasons about which Rachel won’t allow me
to be explicit), while the value of professional
magazines such as Architecture of Israel
is incalculable because one can still say
things that regime clowns don’t understand.
Every time I think about the 1000 articles
we have already published and the next
1000 still ahead, I remember that when
we started out, I approached Prof. Bruno
Zvi, then editor of the Italian magazine
L’architettura, proposing (rather naively)
that he write an article about his bright
comment - "of all the arts, architecture is the
dark side of the moon".
Bruno, who was a Jew, but also Italian,
responded politely with editor-to-editor
courtesy: "I think it’s too late for me in this
lifetime… but in my next incarnation I would
like to be in your position".
Bruno died two years later at the age of 82 (no comparison, touch wood), but his learned articles and books
will, for many years to come, continue to illuminate the unknown side of architecture, where all its beauty lies.
So, in his name, my name and in the name of "touch wood", thank you for staying with us, guys, since I’m
familiar with no other magazine that knows how to give, and get…all your capricious ideas, fantasies and
aspirations in order to produce a quality magazine ranked, to our pride and prejudice, among the top ten of its
kind in the world.
Architect Dr. Ami Ran
P.S.
Since this issue is devoted to the Project of the year competition finalist, it is a fine opportunity to thank the
honorable judging panel, chaired this year by Álvaro Siza Vieira, including the architects Prof Baruch Baruch,
Rony Seibert, David Nofar, Yoel Dvoriansky, Avi Livay, Oded Rozenkier, and Ami Shmuely.
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