CONCEPT

The aim of the Festival is to expand the practice of “slow reading” inspired by traditional Jewish textual study methods (e.g. midrash) to classical works of architecture. Architecture is a means of communication and a “spatial text”, which presuppose interpretation and commentary. Architects and art historians from Russia and Israel offer their “readings” of architectural monuments ranging from ancient Near East to contemporary Berlin.

Faculty

Lily Arad

Art Historian

Vladimir Kagansky

Cultural Anthropologist, Geographer

PROGRAM

With classes led by Russian and Israeli scholars of repute, carefully selected students and young professionals choose one of three tracks enabling an in-depth study and discussion. The readings are accompanied by plenary lectures and evening edutainment programs, all with a strong focus on community building and follow-up activities.

PARALLEL TRACKS

Each track includes 2 mini-courses of 5 workshops each.

ANCIENT NEAR EAST

Temples of Ancient Near East. From Neolith to the Temple of Solomon

Michael Freikman (Israel)

Temples in Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire

Maxim Atayants (St. Petersburg)

NEW JERUSALEM

The Image of Jerusalem in European Architecture

Lily Arad (Israel)

Synagogue Architecture in Eastern Europe

Sergey Kravtsov (Israel)

MEMORY AND UTOPIA

The Architecture of Memory: Memorials, Museums, Monuments

Vadim Bass (St. Petersburg)

The Sea and the City: Nature and Ideology in Israeli Architecture

Michael Bogomolny (Israel)

PLENARY LECTURES

The Language of Architecture or the Architecture of Language?

Faculty: Sergei Sitar

PLENARY LECTURE

Reading Cultural Landscape

Lector: Vladimir Kagansky

EVENING PROGRAM

The Image of an Architect in the Cinema

Faculty: Alexander Ostrogorsky

EVENING PROGRAM

Workshop in Paper Architecture

Made in Cardboardia Studio

MEDIA AND TEXTS

VIDEO

Eshkolot Festival
«Reading Architecture»03:29
Cardboardia Workshop02:29

TEXTS

Preliminary readings for Eshkolot’s Festival of Jewish Texts and Ideas

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Festival Program Book

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PRESENTATIONS

Lily Arad

Presentations for the mini-course «Jerusalem in European Architecture»

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Michael Freikman

Presentations for the mini-course «Temples of Ancient Near East. From Neolith to the Temple of Solomon»

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PHOTO ALBUMS

Eshkolot Festival "Reading Architecture", Day 4. Photo: Nikolay Busygin 40 photos
Eshkolot Festival "Reading Architecture", Days 2-3. Photo: Nikolay Busygin 82 photos
Eshkolot Festival "Reading Architecture", Day 1. Photo: Nikolay Busygin 40 photos

CONCEPT

Faculty

PROGRAM

PARALLEL TRACKS

MEDIA AND TEXTS

VIDEO

TEXTS

PRESENTATIONS

PHOTO ALBUMS

Moscow (Voskresenskoye)