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Ariel Genadt

PhD Fellow, 2nd Year, Lecturer
Architecture

arge@design.upenn.edu

Biography

+ 1997 B.Arch. cum laude, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
+ 2004 M.A. in Histories and Theories of Architecture, Architectural Association School, London, UK.
Dissertation: A Machine to Arouse Emotion: of Le Corbusier's Promenade Architecturale.
+ 1997-2010 Practiced as freelance architect, as well as for S.Aronson Landscape Architects, Jerusalem; P.L. Faloci , Architect, Paris; ARCORA Engineering, Paris; collaborated on projects in Israel, France, U.K., Morocco, Greece and China.
+Adjunct Lecturer at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
+Architectural commentator for the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris and the Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris.

Work/Research

Current research papers include:
The Path of Stone : of the transformation of stone from a "natural resource" into a harbinger of meaning in architectural treatises from Alberti to Viollet le Duc.
Learning from Edo - Architecture at the Intersection of Milieux : considering the 17th century Edo house as part of the Tokugawa socio-political system and its resource management and codification of the building trade.
From Land Art to Kengo Kuma's Nobjecthood : finding parallels between Land Art and Earthworks' relation to site and Kengo Kuma's idea of the dissolution of the architectural object.
Medial Architecture : looking at Kengo Kuma's architecture and its relation to place, in light of Augustin Berque's theories of Mesology and Mediance.

 

 

Leh Palace at Sunset, Ladakh, India, by Ariel Genadt

Double Negative, 1970, Michael Heizer (image courtesy of Penn Libraries)

Methods for supporting a protecting gallery on stone corbels and on iron struts, Viollet Le Duc, 1872, from Lectures on Architectures (image courtesy of Penn Libraries).

Technion Campus Landscape, Haifa, Israel, S.Aronson Architects (image: Ariel Genadt)