Notes on Local Architecture in Israel Gilead Duvshani In an era in which the world is becoming one global village, when buildings look the same in New York, Mumbai, Tel-Aviv or Tokyo, is there value to each place's unique culture? Is architecture a consumer product like the automobile, TV and cell phone? Or does it have an extra cultural value that characterizes its place in society? In this book, architect Gilead Duvhsani lays out before us a systematic creation process for local architecture. Taking interest in Israel is all-encompassing and of special significance as a society that built within a few decades a new state, as a meeting grounds between different cultures and as an area of difficult conflicts. Gilead Duvshani was born and raised in Israel and studied architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Since 1983 he has run a private practice in Tel-Aviv.[…] He has led research programs, arranged exhibitions and has written extensively on Israeli architecture. He is a professor at the School of Design of the Holon Institute of Technology, and has taught in several schools in Israel and abroad. […]