Mellon Forum: Underground Jerusalem: On the Relentless Modernization of the Jewish Past
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; M. Christine Boyer, School of Architecture
April 24, 2019 · 12:00 pm—1:15 pm · School of Architecture, South Gallery
Princeton Mellon Initiative, Humanities Council
This architectural history of post-1967 Jerusalem chronicles how architecture, landscape design, urban planning, and everyone from municipal politicians to state bureaucrats, Israeli-born architects to international luminaries, competed to create Jerusalem’s new image. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan reveals architecture as an active agent in forming urban and national identity, demonstrating how debates about Zionism affected Jerusalem’s built environment in ways that resonate today.
