The Urburb: Patterns of Contemporary Living

The Israeli Pavilion The 14th International Architecture Exhibition The Venice Biennial

 

 

Exhibition

 

Curators-Exhibitors: Ori Scialom, Roy Brand, Keren Yeala-Golan Associate curator: Edith Kofsky Commissioner-Producer: Miki Gov ¬ Productions’ Den Ltd., Tel Aviv

Commissioner-local coordinator: Arad Turgeman Video and sound: Daniel Kiczales Engineering and automation: Festo Israel Installation construction: Gad Tzachor

 

Book

 

Editors: Roy Brand, Ori Scialom Design: Studio Gimel 2 Text editing and and Hebrew translation: Daphna Raz English translation: Sivan Raveh Printing and binding: A.R. Printing Ltd., Tel Aviv

Scenario research and editing: Oren Eldar Research assistants: Sarale Gur Lavy, Alfa Haimov, Gili Merin Photography: Aviad Bar Ness, Roy Brand, Oren Eldar, Yael Engelhart, Sarale Gur Lavy, Edith Kofsky, Gili Merin, Ori Scialom, Keren Yeala-Golan 3D Printing: Stratasys 3D: Amir Hertz, Omri Levy Production Assistant: Maayan Fuss

© 2014, all rights reserved to the editors Published by Sternthal Books

www.sternthalbooks.com

 

The exhibition book is published thanks to the generous support of Shikun & Binui from the Arison Group, celebrating ninety years of creation, enterprise and building in Israel and abroad

 

 

Ministry of Culture and Sport Museums & Visual Art Department
Shimon Elkabetz, director of Culture Administration Idit Amihai, director of Museums and Visual Art Department Shlomo Itzhaki, director of Economic and Budget Division Elena Lulko, budget and planning coordinator

 

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Division for Cultural and Scientific Affairs

Rafi Gamzou, deputy director general and head of the Division Ofra Ben-Yaacov, director of Arts and Literature Department Yossi Balt, Visual Arts Unit Eitan Avraham, director of Management and Budget Department

 

Embassy of Israel in Italy

Naor Gilon, Ambassador of Israel in Italy Ofra Farhi, Cultural Attachée Galit Efraim, Consul

Chairman of the Israeli Council of Culture and Art: Dr. Haim Perluk Chairman of Visual Art Section: Judith Abramovitz

 

Steering Committee: Chairman prof. arch. Yael Moria-Klain, arch. Erez Ella, arch. Dan Handel, arch. Ofer Manor, prof. arch. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, prof. arch. Hillel Schocken

 

Observers: Sigal Barnir, Rafi Gamzou, Idit Amihai

 

Under the auspices of: Ministry of Culture and Sport, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Ronny Douek, The Israel Lottery Council for the Arts, Shikun & Binui from the Arison Group

 

Additional Support: Rivka Saker, Mati Broudo, Ceasarstone Sdot Yam

 

Acknowledgements: Rami Aharoni, Amario-Majus, Assaf Bernstein, Kika Braz, Shiri Broza, Udi Carmeli, Daniel Dikovsky, Erez Ella, Orly Erel, Eli First, Gadtal Engineering Ltd., Candida Gertler, Dganiya Goren-Poriya, Shmuel Groag, Dor Guez, Dan Handel, Dan Hasson, Guy Hoffman, Michael Jacobson, Lerman Architects, Dafna Levin, Doron Levy, Guy Levy, Amir Mann, Marash-Shereshevski, Rea Mochiach, Reut Nevo, Eran Rolls, Iris Rywkind, Yashi Saar, Sharona Scialom, Liat Segal, Jackie Shemesh, Daniel Sheriff, Ami Shinar, Ofer Shochat, Miriam and Peter Tarr, V5 Architects, Sandra Weil, Nitzan Wolanski, Yuval Yasky, Ophir Zak

 

Special thanks to Negev Minerals for donating the sand for the exhibition; to Asaf Sibony for the machine programming; to Gilad Rafaeli from Machine Art; to Survey of Israel (SOI) and especially to Amnon Gabrieli and Yohanan Gavish; and to Tali Nechushtan and the marketing team of Shikun & binui

 

Patterns of Contemporary Living

Editors: Roy Brand, Ori Scialom