Gil Har-Gil

Gil Har-Gil (born 1953 in Tel Aviv, Israel), is an Israeli landscape architect.

Gil Har-Gil, 2014

Biography

Gil graduated from the Environmental Design Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, in 1979. Upon completing his B.A studies Gil was employed as a planner at the Building and Construction Centre, Tel-Aviv. In 1983 Gil completed his M.L.A studies in Landscape Architecture at Cornell University, N.Y, USA. During his stay in the United States, Gil also engaged in landscape planning at the New York State Parks Authority, and served as an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University. In 1992 he received his Ph.D. in Town and Regional Planning, at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

In 1988 Gil Har-Gil and Daphna Greenstein Co-founded their firm Greenstein • Har-Gil Landscape Architecture Ltd. The office is located on Mount Carmel, Haifa, and engages in a wide range of projects, mainly for the public sector, on a national, regional and local level. The firm participated in invited and open competitions in Israel and abroad and was awarded several first prizes and citations. The firm was awarded, among others, the Azrieli Prize for urban planning, for the design of rehabilitation of the German Colony, Haifa. The Tel-Aviv municipality Karavan Prize, for planning and design of the Hecht Park in Haifa. Among Gil's professional works are urban design projects, infrastructure landscape restorations projects, Renewable Energy, heritage sites, nature and landscape projects, as well as urban and regional master plans.

Alongside his professional work, Gil dedicated substantial time to academic teaching of landscape architecture. In 2013 Gil was nominated Associate Professor at the faculty of Architecture and Town Building at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Gil served as a board member of the Architecture Heritage Research Center, as a council member of the Israeli Landscape Architectures Association, as the representative of Israel to the International Landscape Architects Association (IFLA) and as chairman of the Israeli Landscape Architects Association (2009-2012). Furthermore, Gil served as a referee in many professional architecture and landscape architecture competitions.

Projects
Haifa, Hecht Park
Haifa, the German Colony
  • Haifa, Hecht Park, a linear, urban park, near the sea (Karavan Prize)
  • Haifa, Shikmona sea shore promenade
  • Haifa, the German Colony, rehabilitation of an historic city quarter (Azrieli Prize)
  • Haifa, Wizo square, an urban plaza for the Art & Design Academy, in the German Colony
  • Haifa, Hadar Neighborhood, urban renewal, restoration of historic streets
  • Tel-Aviv, "Green routes” for pedestrians and cyclists
  • Zihkron Ya'acov, “Hamoshava Park”, a central town park
  • Kiryat Bialik, "Gan Habanim", a central town park, at the heart of an old neighborhood
  • Tel Dan Nature Reserve, landscape restoration and preservation
  • Akko, Napoleon Hill, Archeological park
  • Beit She'an valley, Springs Park, located along water streams
  • Snir River, promenade along the river bed
  • Taninim River, interdeciplinary master plan
  • Alona, Ancient Water Park, above ancient Roman Underground water channels.
  • Tel Hai, open-air museum of historical events
  • Cross Israel Highway (6), landscape restoration and tunnel portal design of the northern road sections (30 km)
  • Infrastructure National Projects, rails, tunnels, gas lines and wind energy
  • Ashdod and Nazareth, Urban Master Plans
  • Renewable Energy, Wind turbines and Hydroelectric storage

Awards
  • Karavan Award of Gardens and Landscape Architecture, Tel Aviv-Jaffo municipality for planning “Park Hecht”, 2009
  • Azrieli Prize for Urban Planning, Council for a Beautiful Israel, for planning the German Colony in Haifa, 2006
  • "Realizer of a Beautiful Israel”, The Council for a Beautiful Israel, for designing the German Colony, Haifa, 2001
  • Lifschitz Prize, Haifa Municipality, for an impressive connection of Haifa's central landscape assets, 1999
  • A Certificate of Appreciation, The Israeli Architects Association, on the occasion of fifty years of Israeli Architecture, for “professional contribution in the field of Landscape Architecture”, 1998
  • First Prize, Henry Ford Foundation, in the field of heritage and preservation, for the German Colony project in Haifa, 1998
  • Certificate of Appreciation of Building and Construction Center, Building and Construction Center, for "ongoing contribution to increasing awareness of landscape", 1997
  • First Prize, an invited competition, German Colony, Haifa Municipality, Israel Lands Administration and the Government Tourism Corporation, for designing Ben Gurion Blvd. in the, 1995
  • A Certificate of Appreciation, Program of Community Development, Cooperative Extension, Cornell University, U.S.A, for outstanding contribution and support in developing educational programs, 1993

References

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    External links

    http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000504464

    • Alona Park, "Ancient Water"
    • Governmental Campus Garden, Haifa
    • Haifa, Shikmona shore promenade
    • Zihkron Ya'acov, Hamoshava Park
    • Cross-Israel Highway
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