nili portugali

        She is a graduate of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (A.A), London (Diploma 1973). She did post graduate studies in 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 as a guest lecturer to international conferences and prestigious universities all over the world. She 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.

Her new published  book which was selected among  the 24 books of the year 2007 by the  Royal Institute of British Architects International Book Award

The Act of Creation and the Spirit of a Place

A Holistic- Phenomenological Approach to Architecture

/Axel Menges Stuttgart-London 2006

For More details on Nili Portugali’s work & Book

Please see: www.niliportugali.com