Adi Meyerovitch

Adi Meyerovitch is a doctoral candidate in the History and Theory of Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture. She studies the history of architecture from the nineteenth century to the present. She is interested in how design, historic building restoration, archeology, and photography operate as representational and narrative tools for constructing identity. Her dissertation 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 had taught at Pratt, California College of Arts, and Yale. Before joining Yale, she had practiced as an architect in Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, and San Francisco. Recently, her work appeared on Platform and as a chapter in the edited volume The Artist at Home: Studios, Practices and Identities. Her research has received generous support from the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Council on Middle East Ganzfried Fellowship, the Yale European Studies Council, and the Beinecke Library.

Research Area Keywords

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