Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is Professor of history and theory at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, where she heads the Aronson Built Heritage Research Center. She received her 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,” critical historiography, and heritage has been widely published. 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 will be followed by the Israeli volume of Reaktion’s series Modern Architectures in History.
Erich Mendelsohn – Architecture of Dialogue
The Fifth Annual International Symposium, Avi and Sarah Arenson BUILT HERITAGE RESEARCH CENTER, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning