http://www.handandel.com/economic-models daily 0.75 2017-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1413832053386-157UMPZ2W79NT0UUANP2/44-Isard-Loschian-system-002.jpg Isotropic Universe - Isotropic Universe and Modular Grid Researcher PhD dissertation, the Technion Israel Institute of Technology The work studies the relationships between economy and space, focusing on a specific thread of economic modeling known as locational theories, and its applications in the works of economic geographers, regional planners and architects. 2010-2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1413832053386-157UMPZ2W79NT0UUANP2/44-Isard-Loschian-system-002.jpg Isotropic Universe - Isotropic Universe and Modular Grid Researcher PhD dissertation, the Technion Israel Institute of Technology The work studies the relationships between economy and space, focusing on a specific thread of economic modeling known as locational theories, and its applications in the works of economic geographers, regional planners and architects. 2010-2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1410702231033-FC3SC8QIXOV4T55R4NP2/10+Weber+Isodapanes.jpg Isotropic Universe - Alfred Weber, isodapanes (optimal locations), c. 1905 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1410702070203-ENC4O84SFGPP2VFJPP2T/17+Losch+regions.jpg Isotropic Universe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1413655366301-VWXN510DRLMNJDPYEMJH/christaller-1024x903.gif Isotropic Universe - Walter Christaller, Central Place Theory diagram https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1413655148105-MQ72KH8S3BP905BWDCMF/13+Chrisrallter+southern+germany+003.jpg Isotropic Universe - Walter Christaller, Cantral Place Theory applired to Southern Germany, 1935 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1413655389140-H1X9446KN8KQS389KT29/33+Hilberseimer+regional+Christaller+reference+001.jpg Isotropic Universe - Ludwig Hilberseimer, Central Place Theory diagram after Christaller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1413655049562-QKSMQOEWGHTT88WVX26P/43+Isard+Loschian+system+001.jpg Isotropic Universe - Walter Isard, Market areas following Losch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1410702159158-RR9U1XKSHSXUROKEFE1D/46+Isard+regional+science+spatial+system+001.jpg Isotropic Universe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1413655858874-9T4K6O2UWN580VK5T8HU/41+Hilberseimer+regional+urban-rural+system+003.jpg Isotropic Universe - Ludwig Hilberseimer, regional urban-rural system http://www.handandel.com/projects daily 1.0 2025-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1413832400696-0I7JC3FAX344S5QACJ51/XN9A9645.jpg Projects - Manifest: A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism Founding Editor, with Anthony Acciavatti and Justin Fowler Manifest is an independent annual print publication, founded as a means to initiate a critical conversation about the state of American architecture, its cities, and its hinterland. While Manifest intends to question the assumptions behind singular notions/constructions of America by tracing its origins and its global influence, the journal also strives to define the uniqueness of American forms of city-building and the distinct set of political parameters through which these forms are shaped. Graphic Design: Neil Donnelly The project is supported in part by the Graham Foundation 2013- https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1509432628100-402USE8LUTBW54DQGT5W/_MG_2447.jpg Projects - Yasky and Co. Curator Exhibition and Book, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art A non-monographic investigation of the themes and processes surrounding the works of prolific Israeli architect Avraham Yasky and his firm. 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1633685674636-EUYFZDBBW2AANUWFPS6L/image.jpg Projects Carpet Space is a project developed in collaboration with artist Assaf Evron. The project, which received a Graham Foundation research grant and developed into an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, explores the relationship between carpet and architecture. The exhibition looks at the ways carpets perform in architecture, being utilized as strategic devices by architects, corporate designers, and brands in order to achieve various goals: from the organization of circulation to disorientation and confusion of those who need to be held captive in order to spend more. It frames the subject by associating contemporary hyper-capitalist architectural types with the promise of 1960s Megastructures, arguing that the idea of liberation was hijacked in the process of creating extravagant interiors geared towards maximum profit. 2019-2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1633774595287-UTIKFGADRG85SLEREY59/Screen+Shot+2021-07-18+at+21.57.22.png Projects Tales of Immensity, created in collaboration with Tal Erez, was an experimental live performance initiated by Friedman Benda gallery and Manifest Institute. Combining voices from the Manifest Journal, design objects by prominent designer Misha Kahn, virtual environments by groundbreaking artist Shawn Maximo, and dance by acclaimed choreographer Renana Raz, the performance created a series of visual encounters in which notions of American immensity are explored through text, sound, and movement. Composed as a three-act performance, each focusing on a facet of the experience of American space (encounter, crossing, immersion), Tales of Immensity used multidisciplinary work and live editing techniques to question the boundaries between physical and virtual space, vast landscapes and human bodies, and past and future conceptions of American immensity. 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1654975790509-KKTBMTGXPHNXIQGZP1MC/figure-4---checkerboard-pattern.jpg Projects - First, The Forests Curator Exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal First, the Forests examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates highly designed environments with unprecedented scale, ambition and precision, the exhibition proposes an expanded understanding of the connections between natural resources, production processes, and designed form. The exhibition followed a research project developed in residency as winner of the inaugural CCA Young Curator program 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1654976190535-K3UFV7M0XBKG3ZON91D2/image-asset.png Projects - The Forest Cons The forest Cons is a manuscript that follows more than a decade of research into the uneasy kinship between forests and design. It is a tale about misconceptions, and how they are relentlessly applied to the forest by urbanists, foresters, writers, environmentalists, and politicians. Video excerpt from presentation given during #PradaFrames On Forest - A Symposium curated by Formafantasma Running in parallel to Milan’s Salone del Mobile, Prada Frames is a multidisciplinary symposium that delves into the complex relationship between the natural environment and design. The initiative is a moment of collective reflection that aims at examining and correlating innovative thoughts, while offering a pioneering body of knowledge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1693053972897-LQMNBL3ZYOF3AL9FRQL5/_DOR7615.jpg Projects - ואדי/وادي/wadi Exhibition at the Haifa Museum of Art Curator 2023 Wadi is a hydrological geological formation, and a term in Arabic, English and Hebrew that describes different formations of seasonal flow, associated with areas with little precipitation. However in the Carmel, a wadi is also a mental state: wadis in the city are used for momentary respites from city life, for games, and for alternative community gatherings, but they also contain darkness, waste, and complex ecological systems of "wild" animals and plants that exist as a kind of parallel world to everyday life. The exhibition used local phenomena and situations to participate in broader conversations about the environment, urban settlement, and the limits of humanity. Participating artists: Said Abu Shakra, Roni Azgad -Hamburger, Dan Balilty, Gil Bar, Tsuf Ben David, Hicham Berrada, Maayan Elyakim, Florian Holzherr, Dor Kedmi, Netta Laufer, Ella Littwitz, Eli Magaziner, Eytan Mann, Gili Merin, mischer’traxler studio, Alon Sarid, Amalia Shem Tov, and Studio PEZ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1726310429121-CRH8FWFQ5M4G05CLN0TM/3840px-Hunt_in_the_forest_by_paolo_uccello.jpg Projects - Designed Forests: A Cultural History Book, Routledge 2025 Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest’s influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of “forest thinking” for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today. It tackles these subjects by focusing on architecture’s own dispositions, which stem from an ecology of metaphor that surrounds its encounters with the forest and undergird ideas about Nature and natural systems. The book weaves together global narratives and chapters explore a range of topics such as: the invention of forest plans in colonial India, the war waged on the jungles of Vietnam; economic land use concepts in rural Germany, precolonial ecological pasts in Manhattan, and technologically saturated forests in California. This book is essential for landscape architects, urbanists, architects, forestry experts, and everyone concerned with larger environmental contexts and the ever-evolving relationship between nature and culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1747666333841-J9V0FDMNGDDEF0GILUZ1/image-asset.jpeg Projects - Game of Goose Site-specific at the Neutra VDL House, LA Curator 2025 Game of Goose is a site-specific exhibition conceived for the Neutra VDL House. Inspired by the House’s interplay of carefully designed boundaries that allow for constant fluctuations of movement, social interactions, and mental states, each work in the exhibition resonates this duality in microcosm. Drawing from the VDL House’s function as a model home and the playful element of chance in the historical Game of the Goose, the artworks explore inner landscapes that connect Elyakim’s artistic and craft trajectory to the house’s layered histories as both set and setting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1409905730690-T9JKZCPRUPDI3TN1GUQ9/38.jpg Projects - Aircraft Carrier: American Ideas and Israeli Architectures Curator (with Erez Ella and Milana Gitzin-Adiram) Exhibition in the Israeli Pavilion, The 13th Venice Architecture Biennale Later exhibited at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The accompanying book was published by Hatje Cantz Participating Artists: Assaf Evron, Fernando Guerra, Florian Holzherr, Nira Pereg, Jan Tichy Product Designer: Tal Erez Assistant Curators: Hanan Belisha, Liya Kohavi 2012-2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/1413831947096-7J23LH3HJFKRWWD4UJF7/_MG_0020screen-small.jpg Projects - Wood: The Cyclical Nature of Materials, Sites and Ideas Curator Exhibition at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam The exhibition explores the cultural meanings of wood and forests on the spectrum that is drawn by cyclic histories of material, political and social dynamics. It opens by tracing the omnipresence of wood in our lives, from the smallest to the planetary scale; it then focuses on the recurring decline and return of forests around the world, and proceed by offering reflections on the myriad functions they play in the development of markets, the construction of identities, and the hosting of experiments. It concludes by offering an excursion into the inherently uncanny nature of forests. With that, the exhibition also highlights the resonance and unexpected innovations invoked by forests, real and abstract, in design and architecture. 2014 http://www.handandel.com/creative001 daily 0.75 2015-07-30 http://www.handandel.com/writing daily 0.75 2025-05-20 http://www.handandel.com/about daily 0.75 2025-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5408835be4b09b78e4e6c47b/bb800b1d-1538-4c84-b6c2-4805c621ddd5/_DOR7896.jpg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.