Arab-Jewish Architectural Collaboration during the British Mandate

A combined exhibition of the Benish architecture office and the Trans Solar engineering company.

The exhibition Learning from Vernacular will be displayed from December 28th 2013, in two places simultaneously: The Munio Gitai Weinraub Architecture Museum in Haifa and the recently opened Munio Gitai Weinraub Gallery in Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk. The exhibition shows examples of traditional constructions all over the world and wonders what how can this kind of "Architecture without architects" effect our way of thinking today.

Architecture does not take place within a void. Architecture that does not contain sustainable aspects is not ethical architecture and is not a relevant architecture in the new era that we are living in. The exhibition "Ecological Ripples" intends to be a thinking platform regarding sustainability. The exhibition presents ground-breaking ecological projects built in Israel and around the world by Dr. Joseph Cory and colleagues, alongside unrealized ideas.

The exhibition seeks to rediscuss the issue of public housing and emphasize its relevance today through a number of historical and contemporary projects in the country and the world. All of the projects featured in the exhibition deals in their own way in developing unique public space of social partnership

The exhibition curated by Amos Gitai Sharon Yabu Ayalon and Nitzan Set shows the building of the Bedouin Khan Al-Ahmar school in the Maale Adumim area, and touches on the architectural dimension of the school's design based on its construction with recycled tires and compacted earth. The school, located in a border area, was designed by the Italian organization VENTO DI TERRA, which works for human rights and for the quality of the environment.

From the Pompidou Center Collection