Thursday, June 21, 2007

Israeli Scholar to be in Residence During 2007-08

While Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Elissa Rosenberg spends the year in Israel at the Technion, a landscape historian from that technology institute will be in residence at the School of Architecture.

Tal Alon-Mozes is a landscape architect and senior lecturer at the faculty of Architecture and Town Planning of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. She studied biology and art history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and landscape architecture at the Technion. After years of professional practice she received her MLA from the University of California, Berkeley. Her thesis explored the landscape of the Laotian immigrants in California as an example of cultural and landscape transformation from the native homeland to America. In her Ph. D. dissertation from the Technion, Israel, she explored the emergence of vernacular gardening culture in pre-state Israel. She has published on the history of gardens of pre-state Israel and its current landscapes, the narrative approach in the design studio and the culture of urban agriculture in contemporary Israel. Her interests include history and theory of gardens and landscape architecture, landscape and culture and especially the cultural dimensions of landscape production in Palestine and Israel.