Prof. Dr. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan

Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is Professor of Architecture, History and Theory, currently a visiting professor at the GTA in ETH Zurich. She is a full professor at the Technion, where she holds the Churchill Academic Chair and heads the Arenson Built Heritage Research Center. Her work on the politics of architecture and heritage, inter and postwar architectural modernism, and critical historiography has been sponsored by CASVA, Getty/UCLA, U of Michigan and U of Chicago. She served as the president of the European Architectural History Network, and advanced design research as the first Chair of Architecture at the Technion. Her awards-winning book Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2017. She is currently completing an edited volume, Erich Mendelsohn: Architecture of Dialogue and writes the Israel volume of the Modern Architectures in History series by Reaktion Books.