Lior Galili
Assistant Teaching Professor
Lior Galili joins the Department of Architecture as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Lior ([email protected]) is an artist, architect, urban researcher, and educator whose work explores the politics of space in relation to aesthetics, media, and radical imagination.
Her academic experience includes teaching at Cornell AAP, The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University, The Technion– Israel Institute of Technology, Syracuse University SoA, The Spitzer School of Architecture at City College, and, serving as a teaching assistant at Harvard GSD. Galili often participates as an invited juror in a variety of architecture programs including Princeton SoA, Columbia GSAPP, Harvard GSD, The Cooper Union, Rice SoA and others.
Her professional experience includes working for several NYC firms including the offices of DMA + Shigeru Ban Architects and Michael Sorkin’s Terreform—Center for Advanced Urban Research. Galili is the recipient of the Harvard REAI Research Grant; the Allen D. and Marion L. Rubin Award and the Menschel Fellowship Grant. Her art, design and theoretical work has been published and exhibited in NYC, Boston, Los Angeles, Syracuse, London and Jerusalem. She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a B.Arch. degree from the Cooper Union School of Architecture.
Research & Creative Projects
A Site Model of Downtown Denver. 2024. Done as part of CU-Denver ARCH 51400, Design Studio IV: A Net of Belonging: Reconfiguring Typologies of Inclusion for the Homeless Community in Denver Downtown
Credits: Design: Lior GaliIi. Design Team: Theresa Khoury, Meredith Vandeloon, Matthew Epperly, Harrison Hoefler, Jordan Hall. Photo: Paul Wedlake
A Site Model of the Negev Desert. 2017. Done as part of Carleton University ARCS 5106, Design Studio V: Fixed State & the Ex-Nomadic Ghost: Exploring a Spatial Integration for The Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in The Israeli Negev
Credits: Design: Lior Galili. Design Team: Troy Whalen, Darby Ace, Brett Shaw, Brad Gawley. Photo: Brandon Lind
A Detail from a Site Model of the Negev Desert. 2017.
Student Work by: Troy Whalen, Brett Shaw, Brad Gawley & Brandon Lind. Photo: Brandon Lind
A Site Model of 42nd Street, Manhattan, NY. 2013. Done as part of Syracuse University ARC 208, Design Studio III: 42nd Below & Above Ground. C
Credits: Design: Lior Galili. Design Team: Thomas Arleo, Gabriel Boyajian, Sherina Zhang. Photo: Jamie Young
A Site Model of 42nd Street, Manhattan, NY. 2013. Done as part of Syracuse University ARC 208, Design Studio III: 42nd Below & Above Ground.
Credits: Design: Lior Galili. Design Team: Thomas Arleo, Gabriel Boyajian, Sherina Zhang. Photo: Jamie Young
A Site Model of 5th Avenue, Manhattan, NY. 2012. Done as part of Syracuse University ARC 208, Design Studio III: Occupying Street’s Wall
Credits: Design: Lior Galili. Design Team: Chris Kovel, Robert Moldafsky. Kurt Rugler. Photo: Jamie Young