Ben Gitai

Ben Ori Gitai was born in Paris in 1985. In October 2007 he began studies at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, La Villette, and focused on social housing and design. In July 2012, he obtained his Diploma of Architecte d‘état in the degree of HMNOP. In December 2014, he opened his firm Gitai Architects. Mainly, working on urban development architectural and landscape typologies for housing and offices in conflicts territories. In 2017 he started is PhD on developing the field of Topo-politic in the landscape department of architecture in conjunction with GTA the institute for History and theory of architecture. In 2019 he started to teach his Transfomation of Landscapes design studio in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Technion, Haifa.