Sigal
Davidi

Tel Aviv University
Ruth Meltzer Fellowship

Research Topic

Modern Dwellings in Eretz Yisrael: Gender Issues in Domestic Planning of the 1930s and 1940s

Bio

Sigal Davidi is an architect and architectural historian as well as a lecturer at Tel Aviv University’s David Azrieli School of Architecture. She researches the history of architecture in Israel, with a special interest in modern architecture and gender in pre-state Israel.

Davidi received her PhD from Tel Aviv University. She has previously held a fellowship at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Development at the Technical University Berlin.

Selected publications

  • A New Woman in a New Land: Women Architects and the Design of Social Institutions for Women (Hebrew; Open University of Israel Press, forthcoming)

Fellowship

2019–2020

Devoted to the home, and seeking to advance research that will shed light on this most formative and intimate of contexts for Jewish life.