“What’s the story of the street that we design? What’s the story of our house that we design? What’s the story of the neighborhood?”
Should a building need a sign to tell us what it’s purpose is? What do our buildings–our grocery stores and monuments, our courthouses and high rises, our museums and shopping malls– what do they say about us as people and our culture? In this thought-provoking talk, Jonathan Monjack asks us to question the buildings around us, the people who designed them and the reasons why. Our architecture is more than steel and glass. It’s the story of what we value as a city.
About the speaker
Jonathan Monjack is a highly acclaimed and innovative architect who is widely recognized in the Israeli industry, and now resides in the mountains above Boulder, Colorado.
He graduated from the prestigious Bezalel Higher School of Architecture and Art in Jerusalem and is a multi-talented individual who also excels in painting, industrial design, poetry, and most of all the husband and friend of his wife - Irit, the partner in the work and the joint creation.
Jonathan enjoys mentoring students and young architects and has played a key role in establishing numerous workshops and craftsmen in the architecture and design industry.
He firmly believes that architects should play a vital role in seeking, inquiring, interpreting, constructing, and crafting a narrative for the culture of the community, society, family, and individual.
Join us as we explore how PRIDE in our creative ways can be a double edge sword and how Jonathan Monjack has navigated the perils and possibilities generated by pride.
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