Ruth Shapira
Architect
ORIT ORNATH RUTH SHAPIRA
ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
94 Ygal Alon St., Tel-Aviv
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Education |
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1982 |
Master of Architecture |
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1977 |
Graduate in Architecture and Town Planning Cum Laude |
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Academic position |
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Since 1996 |
Lecturer, The David Azrieli School of Architecture, Faculty of Arts, Tel-Aviv University. |
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PAPERS PRESENTED AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES |
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1998 |
Building and Life Congress Bursa, Turkey |
Tel Aviv and the Quest of City Life |
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1998 |
International New Towns Association (INTA) Lisbon, Portugal |
Flagship Projects in Tel Aviv |
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1997 |
International Association of Municipal Engineers Jerusalem |
New City Timeless Signs: Meaning of the Urban Structure of Tel Aviv |
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1996 |
International New Towns Association (INTA) Cairo, Egypt |
Centralization Vs. Dispersal |
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1996 |
International Union of Architects (UIA) Barcelona, Spain |
The Totalitarian Power of "Style” - The Generic Power of Culture |
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1995 |
International New Towns Association (INTA) Vienna, Austria |
Poverty, Politics and Property |
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1994 |
Building and Life Congress Bursa, Turkey |
Breaking the Code: Ezra neighborhood and the Urban Language |
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1994 |
International New Towns Association (INTA) Fez, Morocco |
Housing in Tel Aviv: Coping with the Uncertain and the Search for an Identity |
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ARTICLES
2002 House - School - Book Chapter in the book: School
Galia Bar Or Editor Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd.
1999 Chapter in the book: Binyan Ha'Aretz Public Housing in the 1950's
Tovia - Boneh EditorsHakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd.
PROFESSIONAL WORK
Registered Architect: Israel, State of New York, NCARB (USA)
Since 2001 Own Practice
ORIT ORNATH RUTH SHAPIRA
Architecture and Urban Design Tel Aviv
PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
SHAAR DAROM Tel Aviv
Urban design scheme for 150,000 sq.m. offices and commercial facilities
ASKELON ON SEA Askelon
Urban design scheme for 2,400 housing units
NORTH INDUSTRIAL ZONE Or Yehuda
Urban renewal scheme for housing and office buildings. 900 units.
MINHAL HANDASA Tel Aviv
A housing complex in substitute of the existing municipal building
PROPES Tel Aviv
Project for 220 housing units
BARNEA Askelon
Urban design scheme for 1,000 housing units
RAMAT ELIASHIV Lod
A housing complex of 80 units
KIRYAT MEIR Tel Aviv
Urban renewal and intensification of an old neighborhood. Project of 700 units
HAR SINAI Tel Aviv
Intensification and preservation of the Surroundings of the Great Synagogue of Tel Aviv.
TOP RASSCO Yahud
Office building of 7,000 sq.m.
MEVOOT ZICHRON Zichron Yacov
Project for 15,000 sq.m. complex of commercial and road facilities
1989- 2000
Municipality of Tel Aviv, The Urban Design Section
Head of the design team in charge of the Eastern Quarter of Tel Aviv.
1985 - 1989
Municipality of New York, DOT, Office of Urban Design
Urban Designer in charge of design and implementation of landscape projects in the public realm of New York City.
1983 - 1985 SKM @ Partners ltd., New York, NY
