Jerusalem is the end of my charrette journey. Jerusalem is also an apt place to try to make sense of what I have experienced during the last week. One day of course does not do this city even remote justice. But like everything else in Israel the time walking through this ancient and now [...]
Archive for December, 2007
12/7/07 Nation to Community
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12/6/07 Charrette Conclusions
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The final day of the charrette was divided for me into three different activities; refinement of the bus station plaza and development site plan with my design colleagues Alla and Elan and my economic planning colleague Juda, a journey to the countryside surrounding Kiryat Shmona with the two other foreigners, Neil and Anna, and [...]
12/5/07 Success
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The morning began with a successful conversation made up of a planner, an anthropologist, an architect, a lawyer/politician (a former member of the Knesset) and myself. After the travails and personal crises of yesterday, people came back to the charrette hall with a new willingness to work. I spent the morning tackling the larger [...]
12/4/07 Difference
Posted in Uncategorized on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here I am presenting my office’s Santa Barbara Transit Center Feasibility study to the charrette team in Kiryat Shmona. You might wonder what the relevance of presenting a bus terminal plan with mixed uses in a very particular American environment has to do with the very different ethos of a small northern Israeli town on [...]
12/3/07 Work
Posted in Uncategorized on December 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
While previous days were about touring, learning and listening, today thoughts had to be put into action. I was not sure when I was invited if this truly was the first public design charrette in Israel but I was assured by many people today that it was – and this simple fact of being [...]
12/2/07 K-8 Images
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These are pictures from Sunday, December 2, 2007 when we traveled from Tel Aviv to Kiryat Shmona and began the charrette with introductions, meetings with citizens and a tour of the City Center.
12/2/07 Kiryat Shmona
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The high school where we are meeting. A security guard with a gun told me not to take pictures of this building but relented when he realized I was with the charrette group.
11/30/07 – 12/1/07 Images
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Observations
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In this post I will record various statements I have heard in conversation that strike me as interesting in relationship to the task (the design charrette). Everything stated here is paraphrased, and anonymous.
In Israel people are willing to listen but once the listening is done, the architects go back and do their thing.
12/1/07 First Impressions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged An International-style residential street on December 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The first afternoon and evening in Israel is coming to an end. Late at night I am writing in the hotel in Tel Aviv after an evening of walking and talking and eating and seeing mostly the older portions of the city. As always the shock of a new place is creating a sense of [...]
