Nili Portugali
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| Nili Portugali | |
| Title | A.A. Dip. (London) |
| Born | March 15, 1948; Haifa, Israel |
| Education | Technion Institute of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Haifa, Israel; Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, England, United Kingdom; University of California, Berkeley |
| Firms | Nili Portugali Architect A.A. Dip. (London), Tel Aviv, Israel |
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- Nili Portugali. The Act of Creation and the Spirit of a Place: A Holistic-Phenomenological Approach to Architecture. Edition Axel Menges, October 2006. ISBN 3936681058.
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Nili Portugali is a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (until 2006 at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Architectural Department, Jerusalem) and a practicing architect working in Israel for more than 30 years. Her work has focused on both practice and theory, and is tightly connected to the holistic-phenomenological school of thought.
She is a graduate of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (A.A), London (Diploma 1973). She studied Architecture and Buddhism at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A (1979-81), and worked and participated in research with Prof. Christopher Alexander at the Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, California.
Portugali has won prizes in competitions; she is invited to lectures in international conferences and participates in various exhibitions in Israel and abroad. She has published many articles on architecture and her work is documented in professional magazines, in the press and on television. She was Member of Special Committee for the authorization of schools of Architecture in Israel at the "Council for Higher Education"(VATAT) (1997-9)
Her firm was established in 1979, doing variety of projects with different degrees of complexity within the realms of Education, Culture, Residential, Commercial, and Tourism. Many of the projects are in unique areas of historic or environmental sensitivity, which requires highly creative and original solutions. Her architectural concept which regards the environment as one organic whole, led her to be qualified in all domains of architecture: Building, Interior, and Landscape design as well as master planning.
In 2006, Portugali published a new book, which has been nominated for the RIBA International Book Award Architecture Prize 2007:
The Act of Creation and the Spirit of a Place: A Holistic-Phenomenological Approach to Architecture. Edition Axel Menges, October 2006. ISBN 3936681058.
