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Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is an architect, architectural historian, and theorist. She is an associate professor at the Technion, where she heads the Arenson Built Heritage Research Center. She received her Ph.D. from MIT, and her work on the politics of architecture and heritage, on architectural modernism in Israel and the United States, and on critical historiography was sponsored by CASVA, Getty/UCLA, and the Universities of Michigan (Frankel Institute) and Chicago. Her award-winning book Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification was published in 2017 by the University of Minnesota Press. She is currently preparing the Israeli volume of Modern Architectures in History (Reaktion Books).
Contact: Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel.