Our Office
Moshe Margalith Architects & Urban Planners Ltd., established in 1979, is headed by Prof. Arch. Moshe Margalith and Prof. Dr. Arch. Dana Margalith. With a team of both experienced and young architects, the firm delivers professional services to government and municipal agencies, foundations, institutions, and large corporations in Israel and abroad.
The firm’s work ranges from urban planning, urban design, urban renewal, and landscape design to architecture and interior design, including developments in historical urban fabrics in Jerusalem, Acre, Tel Aviv–Jaffa, and Paphos, Cyprus.
Significant work in urban planning and design includes developments in Jerusalem’s Old City Basin along the seam between East and West Jerusalem; the design of the historical compounds of the Anglican St. George’s Cathedral and the Dominican Church of St. Étienne; and institutions, hospitals, hotels, conference centers, and Neapolis—a new mixed-use quarter in Paphos, Cyprus.
Significant work in architecture includes the design of public buildings such as civic centers, schools, colleges, libraries, synagogues, community centers, and hospitals; commercial buildings like hotels, shopping centers, office spaces, and entertainment parks; and a wide range of residential compounds, senior citizen housing complexes, and urban renewal developments.
Our Vision
We are devoted to study each project along its unique program characteristics and maintain a continuous dialogue with the client and user. We aim to integrate our skills in planning, landscape, architecture and interiors and furniture design, to benefit the environment, users and client. We believe that this planning approach allows us to achieve innovative and sound designs, and are fortunate, that our varied works enables us to maintain our desire to work, serve and create.
Team
Prof. Moshe Margalith has been combining the practice of architecture and academia since the establishment of Moshe Margalith Architects & Urban Planners LTD., in 1979. Prof. Moshe Margalith heads the Tel Aviv Institute for Study and Research of Architecture: Environment, Culture and Community, and the UNESCO Chair on Modern Heritage; and formerly Headed the Azrieli School of Architecture at Tel Aviv University.
Prof. Margalith has participated in and organized various public seminars and joint study workshops for students from Tel Aviv University and from universities in India, China and Canada on Modernism and Urban Transformations and the built heritage of Tel Aviv. He has also conducted wide academic research i.e, on Jaffa -Tel Aviv, on Nicosia, and on the Jewish Ghetto of Shanghai, on pedestrians’ domains in urban centers and on land policies, and environmental protection.
Prof. Margalith has served in various professional and public key positions i.e., the advisor to the Ministerial Committee for Regional and Urban Planning, the representative of the Architects’ Association to the District Committee of Jerusalem, a member of the Ministry of the Interior steering committee for Urban Rejuvenation and densification, a member of the Ministry of Education Council for Higher Education International Evaluation Committee of schools of architecture in Israel, and a member of the academic founding committee of Neapolis University in Paphos Cyprus.
Prof. Arch. Moshe Margalith
Architect and Urban Planner
Registered Architect,
Israel and USA
Prof. Dr. Arch. Dana Margalith, B.Arch., M.A. Arch., Ph.D., was educated at prestigious universities in Israel, England, and Canada. A licensed architect in Israel, she combines architectural practice, research, and academia. She is a co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair on Modern Heritage and heads the Department of Architecture at Haifa University.
Prof. Dr. Margalith has participated in and organized various public seminars, joint study workshops, and research projects focusing on the sustainability, heritage, and development of port cities in Israel, Europe, and the Mediterranean region.
Prof. Dr. Margalith has served on various local and international professional and academic committees, including as a juror for the Architects’ Association and the Inspireli Awards, and as a member of the Ministry of Education’s Council for Higher Education Committee for schools of architecture in Israel.
Prof. Dr. Arch. Dana Margalith