BGU Researchers Win Architecture Awards
BGU Researchers Win Architecture Awards
November 23, 2011
Researchers from BGU’s Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research have won two architecture prizes.
Dr. Aviva Peeters, voted best lecturer three years running at the Albert Katz International School of Desert Studies, won first prize in the category of research awarded by the Israeli journal Architecture of Israel and the European Union’s Annual Project of the Year Competition.
Her research topic was ”Automated Recognition of Urban 3D Morphology.”
The international and Israeli panel of judges awarded second place in the same category to members of the University’s Department of Man in the Desert at the Swiss Institute for Dryland environment Researchal Research for their “Design Manual for Bio-Climatic Construction in Israel.” The authors are Prof. David Pearlmutter (head of the department), Prof. Evyatar Erell, Prof. Isaac Meir, the late Prof. Yair Etzion, and Dr. Yodan Rofe.
First published in 1988, Architecture of Israel is a high quality publication dealing with local architectural issues within the global context. Written by and for architects, AI is composed of unique articles focused on a diversity of contemporary issues, enhanced by outstanding photography featuring some of the world’s most compelling architectural creations.
This is the fourth year the quarterly has held the Project of the Year Competition in conjunction with the EU.
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About Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev embraces the endless potential we have as individuals and as a commonality to adapt and to thrive in changing environments. Inspired by our location in the desert, we aim to discover, to create, and to develop solutions to dynamic challenges, to pose questions that have yet to be asked, and to push beyond the boundaries of the commonly accepted and possible.
We are proud to be a central force for inclusion, diversity and innovation in Israel, and we strive to extend the Negev’s potential and our entrepreneurial spirit throughout the world. For example, the multi-disciplinary School for Sustainability and Climate Change at BGU leverages over 50 years of expertise on living and thriving in the desert into scalable solutions for people everywhere.
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