ד"ר אפרת הילדסהיים

Academic Degrees

2021-2022       Postdoctoral Research Fellow. The program of landscape architecture, Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel.

2019-2020       Postdoctoral Research Fellow. The Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel.

2019    Doctor of Philosophy, David Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University.

2012    M.A Degree. The Porter School of Environmental Studies and Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Art, Tel Aviv University.

2000    Post Graduate Program Diploma. The Program for Young Artists, Department of Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.

1995    Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. Cum Laude. The Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – IIT.

Research

2021-2022       Postdoctoral Research Fellow. The program of landscape architecture at the Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel. The research was carried out as a part of Alon-Mozes' research supported by the Israel Science Foundation - ISF. Postdoctoral Research titled "Roads and highways as late modernism: cultural social and political facets of Israeli landscape architecture 1970-2000".

2019-2020       Post-Doctoral research fellowship funded by The Shlomo Glass & Phany Balaban-Glass Foundation grant, at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – IIT. The postdoctoral research titled "Practices of Speed, Movement, and Gaze as Landscape Mechanisms: Critical Aspects of Roads and Highways as Landscape Performances in 1970-2000 in Israel".

2018    Research fellow at the Azrieli Architectural Archive, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. The research titled "Interpellation of absence: Four modes of lack and absence in the landscapes of Yahalom and Zur".

Landscape theory;  Landscape architecture; Landscape architecture in Israel; Landscape of highways and borders;  Critical theories of space; Garden theory; Modermism

Publication - Theses 

2019    "Critical Aspects in Borderoad Landscape Road no. 90 as a Case Study" PhD Dissertation David Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University. Supervisor: Prof. Architect Eran Neuman, PhD.

2012    "The Characteristics of the Attitude Towards a Site and its Usage in Conceptual Art and in Landscape Architecture at the 1970s in Israel: The Work of Landscape Architect Gideon Sarig as a Case Study". M.A Thesis. The Porter School of Environmental Studies and Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Art, Tel Aviv University. Supervisors: Prof. Landscape architect Tal Alon-Mozes; Prof. Architect Eran Neuman, PhD.

Publication – Peer-reviewed Articles

Hildesheim, Efrat and Alon-Mozes, Tal. 2022. "The landscape of Route 854 in Israel's Galilee: Integrating Nature, Construction, and Art in the Service of a National Project". Journal of Transport History. https://doi.org/10.1177/00225266221142146 

Hildesheim, Efrat, Alon-Mozes, Tal and Neuman, Eran. 2022. "On, In and Within a Place: Six Modes of Operation in Israeli Conceptual Art and Landscape Architecture in the 1970s." Israel Studies Review. 105-135. https://doi.org/10.3167/isr.2022.370106 

Hildesheim, Efrat. 2021. "Landscape and National Modernism in Israel's Highway 90: The Case of the Northwest Dead Sea Segment, 1967-1971." Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes. 309-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2021.2005351.

Hildesheim Efrat. 2020. "Landscape syncope: desire, power and the presence-absence of landscape." Culture, Theory and Critique 61:4, 404-423. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2021.1912621

Hildesheim, Efrat. 2019. "The Spatial Politics of Road-Signs and Signboards in a Borderoad Landscape: The Case of Road No. 90." Horizons in Geography 97: 6-28. (Hebrew).

Hildesheim, Efrat. 2018. "Landscape Syncope." Mafteákh Lexical Review for Political Thought 13: 111-142. (Hebrew).

Hildesheim, Efrat. 2012. "Guerrilla Gardening and the Multitude." History and Theory: The Protocols, 26. Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design Jerusalem, no page numbers. (Hebrew) https://journal.bezalel.ac.il/he/protocol/article/3408

Book Chapters – Peer-reviewed

Hildesheim Efrat. 2022. "'Border Ahead': On Signboards as an Interpellative Mechanism of Order and Control in the Borderoad Landscape of Israel's Highway 90".  In On Surveillance and Control at Borders and Boundaries. Alejandro Gonzalez Milea and Olympia Niglio (eds.). Roma: tab edizioni. 377-402.

Publications and Book Chapters

Hildesheim, Efrat. (2023 in print). "Israeli Road No. 90 and the National Project of Modernism." Docomomo Landscapes Book: Selections from the Docomomo Registers.

Hildesheim, Efrat. 2022. "Deterritorialization, Hybridity and Conflict: The Dialectics of the Gardens to Go". KERB 30 – RMIT's International Landscape Architecture Journal, Melbourne. An invited article.

Hildesheim, Efrat. 2017. "Making a Place: Israeli Landscape Architecture of the 1970s." In Gardens are for people: Gideon Sarig, Landscape Architecture. Edited by Nurit Lissovsky and Tal Alon-Mozes, 140-153. Independent publishing. (Hebrew)

Hildesheim Efrat. 2012. "The Characteristics of the Attitude Towards a Site and its Usage in Conceptual Art and in Landscape Architecture at the 1970s in Israel: The Work of Landscape Architect Gideon Sarig as a Case Study." Landscape Architecture: The Journal of the Israel Association for Landscape Architecture, 43, 14-16. (Hebrew).

Hildesheim Efrat. 2001. "Ephemeral Installations – Three Art Installations." Landscape Architecture: The Journal of the Israel Association for Landscape Architecture, 3, 18-19. (Hebrew).