Nili Portugali

1948

Nili Portugali has been a practicing architect for more than 50 years (born in Israel, 1948). She is a 7th generation descendant of the well-known Berenson family who lives in the holly Galilee city of Safed since the early 19th century and granddaughter of Dr. Nissan Kahan, founder of the Zionist movement in Hungary. Her multidisciplinary work in the visual arts & architecture focuses on both practice and theory, closely connected to the holistic-phenomenological school of thought. She was a senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Department of Architecture, Jerusalem and was teaching at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion, Haifa. She is invited as a guest lecturer to leading universities all over the world. Her work is documented worldwide in books, in the Dictionair De l’Architeture Du xxe Scielle / Hazan Publication France, in professional magazines, in the press and on television. Her first book: *The Act of Creation and the Spirit of Place: A Holistic-Phenomenological Approach to Architecture* was among the 23 books of the year selected by the Royal Institute of British Architects (R.I.B.A) International Book Award (Launched at Harvard, MIT, Europe & China). was listed in the books of the year selected by the Royal Institute of British Architects (R.I.B.A) In the book Review by URBAN DESIGN International / Palgrave Macmillan Journals: "Portugali's quiet revolution may be the one that passes the ultimate test of time" Her secon

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