Israel: 4D Collage | Design Elevates
19-22 April 2012
International Conference and Chapter Meeting
This unique junction at the eastern rim of the Mediterranean Sea, where Europe meets Asia and Africa, where the desert meets the sea, has witnessed much of Western and Eastern culture’s fundamental controversies with respect to a search for the Divine, as recorded in some of the more important texts of human history.
Today, with the addition of a rich and diverse population, Israel has become a complex and modern place, the source of many technological, artistic, and cultural inventions, in the throes of realizing itself as a uniquely cosmopolitan society based on deep roots in ancient history.
The conference will be a voyage to the “research” zone. This exploration, through lectures and tours, will consider how architecture connects the past with the present, the role of public architecture in creating a tapestry of multi-cultural places, how “Heavenly” Jerusalem allows “Earthly” Tel Aviv to exist, and the development of Green Architecture from the pioneer state.
Anticipated tours of the Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art, Holon Design Museum, Bauhaus White City, , and The Peres Center for Peace will illustrate how design elevates the future of coming generations and how good design creates good business and a better life now.
An optional one day extension will be a trip to Masada, the Dead Sea and the Desert.
—Conference committee:- Yael S. Kinsky, AIA, Chair
- Scott Sivan, AIA
- Ryan Clarke, Assoc. AIA
A printable flyer (200mm x 200mm), front and back, is available for download.
The following program is still being planned and is subject to change.
The conference language is English.
Program:
| Thursday, 19 April 2012 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome | ||||
| Tel Aviv Art Museum | 16:00 | Registration opens | ||
| 16:30 | Opening ceremony and Keynote Speaker — "Design Elevates" | 1.25 | ||
| 17:45 | Panel discussion: Design Elevates | 1.5 | ||
| 19:15 | Tour 1: Tel Aviv Art MuseumTour | 1 | ||
| 20:15 | Buffet Dinner | |||
| Friday, 20 April 2012 | ||||
| Tel Aviv Art Museum | 09:00 | Registration opens | ||
| 09:30 | Architectural Collage | 1.25 | ||
| 11:00 | Opening Exhibition & Coffee Break | |||
| 11:30 | Bus Departure to Tour 2 | |||
| 12:00 | Lunch at Museum of Design Cafeteria | |||
| Holon Design Museum | 13:00 | Tour 2: Holon Design Museum | 1 | |
| Holon Library | 14:00 | Holon Library Tour and Lecture | 1 | |
| 15:00 | Break: coffee, drinks, cakes | |||
| 15:30 | Lecture 3: Holon Branding: the importance of design | 1.25 | ||
| 16:45 | Bus departure from Holon to Jaffa | |||
| Peres Peace Center | 17:15 | Peres Center for Peace | 1.25 | |
| Marvin Windows Showroom | 18:30 | Travel to Kfar Saba Marvin Windows | ||
| 19:15 | Showroom Tour and Cocktails | |||
| Hertziliya Port or Tel Aviv | 20:00 | Dinner on your own | ||
| Saturday, 21 April 2012 | Habima Theatre | 08:30 | Meeting Point for Walking Tour | |
| 08:45 | Tel Aviv, The White City (Unesco Heritage Site) | 2 | ||
| 10:45 | Break: coffee, drinks, cakes | |||
| Bauhaus Center, Tel Aviv | 11:15 | International Style: Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem | 1.5 | |
| 12:45 | Bus to Tel Aviv Port | |||
| Tel Aviv Port | 13:15 | Lunch | ||
| Tel Aviv Port and ZeZeZe Exhibition | ||||
| 13:45 | Tel Aviv Port and Promenade | 1 | ||
| 14:45 | Park Adgami recycling | 1 | ||
| Meeting point TBA | 15:45 | AIACE Chapter meeting | ||
| 17:45 | Bus to Jaffa Port | |||
| 18:15 | Gala Dinner/Mediterranean Cruise Jaffo-Tel Aviv-Jaffo coast line | |||
| 20:15 | A night in the city that does not sleep — on your own | |||
| 20:15 | ||||
| 23:00 | ||||
| Sunday, 22 April 2012 | ||||
| Meeting point TBA | 08:30 | Meet | ||
| 08:45 | Bus to Jerusalem | |||
| 10:00 | Tour of the Old City, the Arab market, David's Tower, | 2 | ||
| 12:15 | Lunch | |||
| 12:45 | Davidson Center and the Old Jewish Quarter | 1 | ||
| 13:45 | Bus to Yad Vashem | |||
| 14:15 | Yad Vashem Main Building (Safdie Tube) + Children's Museum | 2.25 | ||
| 15:45 | Bus to Israel Museum | |||
| 16:15 | Israel Museum | |||
| 17:00 | Bus | |||
| 17:00 | Arab & Jewish Elementary School | 1 | ||
| 18:00 | Bus to Sherover Promenade | |||
| 18:30 | Sherover Promenade | 0 | ||
| 19:00 | Bus to Abu Gosh | |||
| 19:30 | Dinner Abu Gosh and Closing Statements | |||
| 20:30 | Bus To Tel Aviv | |||
| Total AIA CES LUs (main program) | 15.25 | |||
| Total AIA CES LUs (Thu-Sun complete) | 21.25 | |||
| Monday, 23 April 2012 | Optional Extension | |||
| 09:00 | Bus Departure | |||
| 10:30 | Masada, Dead Sea, Ein Gedi, Mitzpe Ramon | |||
| Tour 12 | ||||
| Total AIA CES Continuing Education Hours for Monday program extension | TBD | |||
| Total AIA CES Continuing Education Hours (including Monday program extension) | TBD | |||
Venue
More information on the venue will be available in coming days.
Some suggested hotels…
This event does not have a conference hotel.
Prices for hotels in Israel typically include an Israeli breakfast.
- Artplus Hotel: A small city center hotel with artistic decor, 565 ILS for single and 610 ILS for a double. To receive the discount for Atlas hotels, register with “AIA Europe Architect’s Group” through: israela@atlashotels.co.il
- Brown TLV Urban Hotel: this is a boutique hotel located close to Neve Tsedek and the Rothschild Boulevard (one of the cultural centers of Tel Aviv).
- Cinema Hotel: A small city center hotel in a Bauhaus building, 565 ILS for single and 610 ILS for a double. To receive the discount for Atlas hotels, register “AIA Europe Architect’s Group” through: israela@atlashotels.co.il
- Hilton Hotel
- Dan Hotels
- Herods Hotel: please note this hotel is offering remodeled and un-remodeled rooms, at 208 USD for a single and 232 USD for a double for the remodeled rooms higher than 7th floor. To receive the discount for Herods Hotel registration mention “AIA Europe Architect’s Group” when writing to: Alon Aizner of Israel Hotels and Tours.
- The Varsano Hotel: modern rooms in small villas set around a small interior courtyard.
Arrival
The main international gateway for flights to Israel is Ben Gurion Airport (TLV).
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