© Stefanie Kösling for Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt
Meitar Tewel is a gta Doctoral Fellow (2024–2028) at the Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design, ETH Zürich, and a Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe Doctoral Fellow (2024–2027). After completing her Master’s in Architecture at Delft University of Technology in 2023 (cum laude), she worked as an independent designer, curator, researcher, and educator in the Netherlands and Germany. Her Master’s thesis, Neualtland, was presented in a solo exhibition in Frankfurt am Main in April 2023 and is now part of the collection of Frankfurt’s Jewish Museum. Her doctoral research, currently titled Precious Lands, explores how former Jewish properties in Frankfurt were resourcified by diverse (and sometimes unexpected) actors during postwar reconstruction, enabling persistent, though often invisible, continuities in cultural and spatial affinities.
Résumé
EDUCATION
2024-present gta Doctoral Fellow (2024-2028), RFHE Doctoral Fellow (2024-2027)
Institute of History and Theory of Urban Design (gta), D-ARCH, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete (ETH Zürich)
Second advisor: Prof. Dr. Janina Gosseye (TU Delft)
2020-23 MSc Architecture (cum laude, grade average 9.6/10.0)
The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Master’s thesis graduation project 10.0/10.0
Interiors Buildings Cities Independent Group, supervised by Prof. Daniel Rosbottom, Asst. Prof. Dr. Mark Pimlott, Ir. Koen Mulder
2016-20 BSc Architecture (summa cum laude, grade average 94.2/100)
The Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Israel
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Teaching and research
2025 Resourceful Cities
Research Master’s studio (Fachsemester) teacher, with Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete, Dr. Sebastiaan Loosen, and Natalia Voroshilova, Chair of History and Theory of Urban Design, gta, D-ARCH, ETH Zürich.
2023 Architecture & Freedom
Research & design Master’s studio teacher, with Prof. Dr. Janina Gosseye. The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, The Netherlands
2022 Revisiting Neualtland
Guest lecturer; Master’s elective course The Heteronomy of Urban Design: (Prof. Janina Gosseye). The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, The Netherlands
2022 Shape of Community
Guest critic; first year Master’s design studio final reviews (Prof. Alfred Jacoby). Dessau Institute of Architecture, Hochschule Anhalt, Germany
2020 A Place for Art
Teaching assistant; Master’s elective course (Asst. Prof. Dalia Kramer). The Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Israel
2020 The Center for Architectural Heritage, Technion Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Chair of the Center for Architectural Heritage at the Technion, Israel.
Peer-reviewed publications
Gosseye, Janina, and Meitar Tewel. “Making Neualtland: Ficto-Criticism in Architectural Historiography.” Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge, vol. 2, no. 1, Nov. 2022, pp. 121–40. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0309.
Tewel, Meitar. “In Search of Neualtland: A Historiographic and Architectural Research Project.” Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge, vol. 4, no. 7, Dec. 2024, pp. 39–58. DOI.org (Crossref), https:// doi.org/10.14361/dak-2024-0704.
Tewel, Meitar. “Curated Integration: Israeli Integration Centers as an Anomalous National Immigration Absorption Mechanism.” ABE Journal, under review.
Tewel, Meitar. “In Praise of Oblivion: Jewish Building Between Memorialization and Erasure in 1960s Frankfurt am Main.” Jewish Heritage in Light of Critical Heritage Studies, under review.
Conferences and workshops
2025 Jewish Cultural Heritage in Light of Critical Heritage Studies
International academic conference, Bonn, Germany
2019 Kibbutz Berlin
Architectural workshop and presentation at the ‘Bauhaus 100 - What Now?’ conference. Dessau Institute of Architecture, Hochschule Anhalt, Germany
2019 Tsukiji Market
Urban design workshop, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021 Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Part-time junior designer
2020 Tav Group, Haifa, Israel
Lead designer for the new Academy of the Hebrew Language building competition
2019 Gitai Architects, Haifa, Israel
Part-time junior designer
2018 Nachshon Furniture Design House, Haifa, Israel
Product design assistant, lead graphic designer
EXHIBITIONS & ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS
2023 Mapping Memories: Judengasse Extended
Invited by METAhub FFM (Germany), Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm
News on the Judengasse
Complete design and graphics of a pop-up exhibition curated by Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt, presented in Museum Judengasse Frankfurt
Neualtland: A Layered Local Jewish Narrative
Complete design, curation and graphics of a pop-up exhibition, presented in a newly discovered vaulted cellar dating to the early 1800s, a last surviving remnant from Frankfurt’s historic Jewish ghetto; the complete body of work has been purchased by Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt
Outlining Memories
A participatory artistic intervention and field workshop, hosted by Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and produced in collaboration with Fabrice Mazliah
2015 Street Art Photography
Participation in a group exhibition, Jaffa Port Gallery, Israel
COMPETITIONS
2024 Archiprix NL
TU Delft official selection
2020 The new Academy of the Hebrew Language building open competition
Top 20 proposals in collaboration with Tav Group
2017-19 Intra-faculty competitions
The Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Israel
Citation of excellence award BSc5 design studio project “Sense of Place”
Citation of excellence award BSc4 urban design studio project “Post-Possession”, with Itai Aviram & Shaked Fried
First prize Rivka Hashimshoni Award, BSc2 design studio project “At First, But Then”
First prize Rivka Hashimshoni Award, BSc1 design studio project “A Single Stroke”
2018 Israel 2048 Competition, Israel Green Building Council (IGBC)
Finalist BSc4 urban design studio project “Post-Possession”, with Itai Aviram & Shaked Fried
2018 Aba Elhanani Award
Citation of excellence award BSc3 design studio project “Spoken Language”
Press
Archined, 18 July 2024
There's an Ancient Jewish Ghetto in Your Basement
Naama Riba, Haaretz, 10 July 2023
Pissoir statt Synagoge (Urinal Instead of Synagogue)
Theresa Weiss, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 24 May 2023
Die verschwundene Straße (The Lost Street)
Alexander Jürgs, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 24 April 2023
Mapping Memories – Judengasse Extended
HaGalil.com Jüdisches Leben online, 16 April 2023
"History is not the past": A conversation with Mirjam Wenzel and Meitar Tewel
Johanna Laub, Schirn Magazine, 13 April 2023
Eine verschwundene Straße wird wieder sichtbar (An Erased Street Becomes Visible Again)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 April 2023
Festival macht Spuren des Frankfurter Ghettos sichtbar (Festival makes traces of the Frankfurt's ghetto visible)
Michael Theil, Frankfurter Rundschau, 13 April 2023
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