Edna Langenthal Author

Liora Bigon is an urban (planning) historian; an associate professor at Ariel University after a lengthily service at HIT ‒ Holon Institute of Technology; also as the responsible of the Accessibility of Higher Education Program for the Arab, Druze and Circassian Society.She specializes in toponymy, (post-) colonial urban history and planning cultures in sub-Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on West Africa, and has published widely in these fields, including articles, encyclopedic entries, books and edited collections. Among her books are: Garden Cities and Colonial Planning in Africa and Palestine (2014, co-ed. with Y. Katz); French Colonial Dakar (2016); Place Names in Africa (2016); Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal (with Prof. E. Ross, 2020); and Street-Naming Cultures in Africa and Israel (with Dr. Arch. Michel Ben Arrous, Routledge, 2021) – the latest couple of books include extensive fieldwork in a variety of sub-Saharan Africa and Israeli cities.

Edna Langenthal is a chartered architect and a philosopher, a senior lecturer and the Head of the School of Architecture at Ariel University where she teaches the first-year studio and the final project in the fifth year. She is the co-chief editor of Architext, a peer-reviewed bilingual (Hebrew/English) architectural journal, with Arch. Itzik Alhadif. She is the author of numerous articles published in major periodicals. Her latest book Question of Place: Architecture between the Poetic and the Ethical (2021), offers a new understanding of the elements of architectural practice with exposure to phenomenological thought. Her areas of specialization are ethical and poetic architecture, especially Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas. Her research and her teaching combine philosophical and ethical questions, emphasizing the connection between the field of architecture and phenomenology.