Adi Meyerovitch

Adi Meyerovitch is an architectural historian and an architect based in New York. She is currently a Chester Dale Interdisciplinary Fellow in the department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her research examines how architecture, restoration, archaeology, and photography operate as representational and narrative tools for self-fashioning and soft power from the nineteenth century to the present. Her dissertation, titled Imperial Rivalries in Jerusalem: Architecture and the Emergence of Biblification (1837–1923) explores the roles of the British, French, and Ottoman empires in the “architectural biblification” of Jerusalem amid an international race for prestige and influence in the Holy City in the long nineteenth century.

Adi was trained as an architect at Tel Aviv University and the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. She has taught at Yale, Columbia University, Pratt, and California College of the Arts. Her article “The Invention of the French Domain of Saint Anne in Jerusalem” is forthcoming in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and her work has appeared in PLATFORM and as a chapter in The Artist at Home: Studios, Practices and Identities (2024, Bloomsbury), edited by Imogen Racz and Jill Journeaux. Her research has been generously supported by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Beinecke are Book and Manuscript Library, and Yale’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, including awards from the Council on Middle East Studies and the European Studies Council.

Research Area Keywords

Jerusalem, Palestine, Israel, French architecture, British architecture, Ottoman architecture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Religion and Politics, Empire, Photography, missionary architecture, archaeology, restoration, historicism.