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Building Design: Big names urge Israelis to end ‘oppressive’ works


Helen Crump, Building Design Magazine
25 May 2007

Alsop, Farrell and MacCormac join call to stop work on schemes that oppress Palestinians

I think the Palestinians are living in a prison and they deserve better than that.. I’d like fellow colleagues in Israel to feel some responsibility about this shabby treatment. Architects are a fairly humanitarian lot and perhaps they could help... This is not against Israel, it’s for Palestine.

Will Alsop,
celebrated architect,
Principal SMC William Alsop,
Winner Stirling Prize 2000

A host of celebrated architects including Will Alsop, Terry Farrell, Richard MacCormac, Rick Mather and Ted Cullinan have waded into the politics of the Middle East with a challenge to fellow professionals in Israel to cease work that “excludes and oppresses” Palestinians.

The architects, who also include Royal Institute of British Architects(RIBA) president Jack Pringle and president-elect Sunand Prasad, have signed a petition organised by Architects & Planners for Justice in Palestine which accuses construction professionals working on three separate Israeli developments of “social, political and economic oppression.”

“APJP asserts that the actions of our fellow professionals working with these enterprises are clearly unethical, immoral and contravene universally recognised professional codes of conduct,” a spokesman said.

“We ask the Israeli Association of United Architects (IAUA) to meet their professional obligations … to declare their opposition to this inhuman occupation.”

The IAUA was unavailable for comment, but the action was condemned as foolish and damaging by Michael Peters, founder and chairman of the Identica brand agency, who has worked extensively with architects in Israel.

“British architects are going to burn their bridges with a number of developers — Israeli, British and European,” he said.

Last year Richard Rogers faced stinging criticism from US clients after he hosted a meeting of APJP (News March 10, 2006).



Expansion plans for illegal Israeli settlement of Ma’ele Adumim strongly condemned

The petition, which focuses on the village of Silwan in east Jerusalem, the E1 plan for the expansion of Israeli settlement Ma’ele Adumim, and former Palestinian village Lifta, was strongly defended by Alsop.

“I think the Palestinians are living in a prison and they deserve better than that,” he said. “I’d like fellow colleagues in Israel to feel some responsibility about this shabby treatment. Architects are a fairly humanitarian lot and perhaps they could help.”

He added: “This is not against Israel, it’s for Palestine.”

Petition organiser Abe Hayeem, a London-based architect and APJP chair, called his fellow architect supporters “pretty courageous”, and insisted architects would not be deterred from backing causes they supported.

But Peters said British architects did not understand the situation in Israel.“Getting involved in a lobby group can only do a disservice to the whole architectural profession,” he added. “To accuse [Israeli] architects of being complicit is nonsense.”


Source: http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3087721&c=1&encCode= 0000000001311fe5



E1 – The Illegal Link That Consolidates The Occupation


Architects & Planners For Justice In Palestine(APJP)

We call on Israeli architects and planners to end their indifference and blindness to the political implications of their professional work and ethics. They should recognize their complicity in the injustices resulting from their participation in consolidating the Occupation, and the terrible suffering being inflicted on the Palestinians..

Israel’s settlements are illegal under international law and the Geneva Convention, and Maale Adumim, its largest settler city stands out as the key factor in Israel’s colonial expansion as far west as possible from Jerusalem towards Jericho. Most of Maale Adumim (87%) is built on Palestinian-owned land. Maale Adumim was planned by the Thomas Leitersdorf (AA dipl) and designed by Elioar Barzacchi (the Mother of Maale Adumim) in the 1980s as the chief architect for the Jerusalem district at the Construction and Housing Ministry which created and is still creating facts on the ground that thwart negotiations on the city's future and is causing infringements of the rights of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and implementing a policy of occupation and annexation, land confiscation, discrimination and expulsion. The "empty" hills of Ma'aleh Adumim were not empty and "Mohammed" was indeed told to get up and go, like all the members of the Jahalin tribe that is now forced to live in the area of the Abu Dis garbage dump, as journalist Gideon Levy recently wrote.



The road to Ma'ale Adumim
cutting between the newly fenced in town
of Al-Izariyyah and the village of A-Zayim

E1 is the hilly area between East Jerusalem and Maale Adumim that Israel is intending to annex, to form a continuous urban development. Currently Israel is confiscating lands on the northern and western side of the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim just outside of Jerusalem . These confiscations (without compensation) are taking place from the Palestinian villages of Anata, Al-Izariyyah, Abu Dis and A-Zayim. The intention of this action is to expand the municipal area of Ma’ale Adumim westward to join up with Jerusalem . But as ‘Ir-Amim’, the Israeli website on Jerusalem has stated, E1 is not Maale Adumim and cannot be considered as expansion of that town, which is in any case illegal. Currently, Ma’ale Adumim houses some 30,000 settlers. Under the E1 project an additional 5,600 more settlement homes for approximately 25,000 new residents will be added to its municipal area. Additionally, some 1,600 dunums of land are being confiscated to erect Israel ’s Apartheid wall for Ma’ale Adumim.

The police station for E1 has already been built despite its land confiscation and illegality, and the road network and street lights have also been built in readiness for the new housing near that land.



E1 expansion plan

This action is not only in contravention of the US sponsored road map agreement, but it would effectively destroy any future possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state by cutting off east Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank, and by cutting of the northern part of the West Bank from the southern part..It is a deliberate violation of the Road Map, Oslo , and any basis for negotiating land for peace. When complete the total land area of Ma’ale Adumim and E1 will be 65,000 dunums, an area larger than Tel Aviv, in the heart of what would have been a Palestinian state.

We call in Israeli architects and planners to end their indifference and blindness to the political implications of their professional work and ethics. They should recognize their complicity in the injustices resulting from their participation in consolidating the Occupation, and the terrible suffering being inflicted on the Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank. We call on all parties to halt this illegal project forthwith , as required by the International Court of Justice in its ruling on the Wall in 1994.

Click here to add your name to this petition.

Source: http://apjp.org/e1-a-step-towards-a-dead-end/



Illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim

E1-Lifta-Silwan Petition Signatories


Charles Jencks : Architectural Historian, Writer and Critic, UK/USA.

Ted Cullinan, CBE, RA : Edward Cullinan Architects, UK.

Will Alsop RA, OBE : Principal SMC William Alsop, Winner Stirling Prize 2000, UK.

Zvi Hecker : Architect, Germany/Netherlands/Israel.

Sir Terry Farrell: Principal Terry Farrell Partners, UK.

Sir Richard MacCormack : Partner MJP Architects, Former RIBA President, UK.

George Ferguson: Acanthus Ferguson Mann Architects, Former President RIBA

Jack Pringle : RIBA President Elect, UK.

Sunand Prasad: Principal Penoyre Prasad Architects, RIBA President Elect, UK.

Eva Jiricna : Principal Jiricna Architects, UK.

Rick Mather : Principal Rick Mather Architects, UK.

Abe Hayeem : Architect, APJP Chairman, UK.

Eyal Weizman : Author ‘A Civilan Occupation’, Director Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmith’s College, UK/Israel.

Paul Hyett : RIBA President 2001-2003, UK.

Hans Haenlein : Principal Hans Haenlein Architects, UK.

Neave Brown : Artist and Architect of Alexandra Road, UK.

Robin Nicholson : ECA architects, UK.

David Levitt : Architect Levitt, Bernstein, UK.

Tom Kay : Architect, UK.

Jeff Halper : ICAHD Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Israel.

Malkit Shoshan : Director of Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST), Netherlands/Israel.

Shmulik Groag : Director, BIMKOM, Israel. (E1, Silwan)

Cezary Bednarski : Principal Studio Bednarski, UK/Poland.

Professor Nasser Rabat : Aga Khan Professor, MIT, USA.

Professor Mike Davis : Author ‘City of Quartz’, Professor University of California Davis, USA.

Professor Saskia Sassen : Author ‘Cities in a World Economy’, University of Chicago, London School of Economics, USA/UK.

Suad Amiry : Author, Founder and Director of RIWAQ, Centre for Architectural Conservation, Palestine.

Beatriz Maturana : Principal Archimage, President and Founder of Architects for Peace, Australia.

Eitan Bronstein : Director of Zochrot, Israel.

Uri Davis : Honorary Research Fellow, University of Exeter, IAIS, Founder of Al-Beit, Israel.

Professor Samer Akkach : Director Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture, Adelaide, University, Australia.

Professor Zvi Efrat : Department Head, Architecture Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.

Professor Derek Gregory : Distinguished Scholar, Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Professor Neil Smith : PhD Johns Hopkins, Distinguished Professor CUNY Graduate Center, USA.

Osama Hamdan : Conservation Architect and Lecturer, Al Quds University, Palestine.

Professor Haim Bresheeth : Filmmaker, Photographer, Chair of Media and Cultural Studies, University East London, UK/Israel.

Professor Bob Tavernor : Director of Cities Program, Architecture and Urban Studies, London School of Economics, UK.

Dr. Gaetano Palumbo : Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK.

Professor Oren Yiftahel : Professor of Geography, Ben Gurion University, Israel.

David Tartakover: Graphic Designer, Israel Prize Laureate for Design 2002, Israel.

Mario Coyla : Professor, Architect and Urban Planner, Cuba.

Lynda Thorne : EU Environmental Consultant, Romania.

Ian Martin : Building Design Magazine, UK.

Louis Hellman : Architect and Cartoonist, UK.

Robert Bevan : Author ‘The Destruction of Memory’, UK.

Dr. Jim Berrow : Architectural Historian, UK.

Arad Sharon : AA dipl, Director Arieh Sharon, Eldar Sharon Architects & Town Planners L.T.D, Israel.

Georgeann B. Burns Assoc. AIA : Principal, RTKL Associates, Inc., USA.

Gail Waldman : Waldman-Jim Architects, UK.

Ceridwen Owen : Architect, Lecturer in Architecture, University of Tasmania, Australia.

Karen McWilliam : Architect, Lab Architecture, Australia.

Raphael Sperry AIA : Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility, Green Architect, USA.

Claudia Bloom : Director, Avanti Architects, UK.

Michael Safier : Planner, Bartlett College, University College London, UK.

Junko Iwaya : Architect, Japan.

Professor Bas Molenaar : Healthcare Architect, Netherlands.

Aurore Julien : Renewable Energy Consultant, UK.

Charles Dunnett : Dunnett Craven Ltd., UK.

Ross Ramus: RAIA Ramus Architects,USA.

Mikolaj Kadubowski: Partner GRUPA 5 ARCHITECTS, Warsaw.

Mungo Smith: Director of MAAP Architects, London.

Susan Francis: Special Advisor on Healthcare, CABE, London.

Mark Kubaczka, Dyrektor , artchitecture sp zo o, Warsaw.

Liane Friedrich : Architect, Brazil.

Prof. Hennu Kjisik: Architect, Finland.

Derek Stow OBE: Architect, London.

Professor Irene Bruegel : Planner, London South Bank University, UK.

Dace Kalvane: Aplus architects, Latvia.

Frank de Marco : Architect UK.

Douglas Carson : Eric Parry Architects.

Francesca Viceconti: Architect, Italy.
Martin O’Shea: Architect, UK.
Salim Jaleel: Architect, UK.
Haifa Hammami: Architect, APJP Secretary, UK.
Michael Gwilliam: Architect, UK.
Clive Jones: Architect, UK.
Mike Macrae: Architect, UK.
Joanna Chambers: Planner, UK.
Jeremy Dain: Architect, UK.
Phil Gusack: Architect, UK.
Malcolm Hecks: Architect, France.
Walter Hain: Architect, UK.
Kate Mackintosh: Architect, UK.
Joe Lynes: Architect & CPT, Palestine.
Nadia Habash: Architect, UK.
Zahira Nazer: Urbanist, UK.
Sidney Bernstein: Architect, UK.
Shaqir Safian: Architect, UK.
J. Waller: Architect, UK.
Paul Barham: Architect, UK.
Geoff Haslam: Architect, UK.
Terry Meade: Architect, Brighton University, UK.
Martin Crookston: Architect, UK.
Alan Arnstein: Architect, UK.
Tarek Ragheb: Architect, UK.
Gil Doron: Artist, UK/Israel.
John Murray: Architect, UK.
Nicholas Wood: Architect UK/South Africa.
Keith Cowling: Architect, UK.
Jake Brown: Architect, UK.
Steve Fox: Architect, UK.
Keith Hallett: Architect, UK.
Adrian King: Architect, UK.
John Hodge: Architect, UK.
Omar Qattan: Qattan Foundation, UK.
Issa Sarie: Architect, UK.
Wade Sowman: Planner, New Zealand.
Alon Cohen Lifshitz: BIMKOM, Israel.
Jose Vilar: Architect, USA.
D. Shah: Architect, UK.
Samir Srouji: Architect, USA.
M. Azhar: Architect, UK.
Stefano Ferrari: Architect, UK/Italy.
Fahmi Salameh: Architect, Palestine.
Ray Bowden Architect, UK.
Vassilis Ierides: Architect, Greece.
Khaldun Bishara: Architect, Palestine.
Steve Kessel: Architect, UK.
Javiera Maturana: Planner, Australia.
Yaron Turel: Architect, Israel.
Orna Shatil: Architect, Israel.
Frederico Zaidan: Architect, Brazil.
Shelly Roberts: Architect, Australia.
Ed Hall: Architect, UK.
Tim Bruce Dick: Architect, UK.
M. Azhar: Architect, UK.
Hasan A. Hammami, USA.
Eleanor Chapman: Australia.
Nadia Piette: Netherlands.
Ivar Leivestad: Australia.
Merinda Hall: Australia.
Racheli Bar Or: Israel.
Walid Issa: USA.
Julian Rutt: Australia.
Nadine Samaha: Australia.
Imm Chew
Ranad Shqeirat
Kabir Hussain
Abdulmajid Karanouh
Niel Lambert
David Reidy
Leena Ismail
Miranda Pennell
Jennifer Dudgeon
Susan Mellersh Lucas
Noor Salman
Rand el haj Hasan
Eleanor Mayfield
Jose Vilar
Tariq Z. Khayyat
Emily Jack
Samer Rabie
Jalal El Ali
Noor Tibi
Yusuf Tibeh
Dave Reidy
Amal Moh
Dan Rigamonti
Judy Andler
Rosaleen Crushell
MJ Bissan: Sculptor
Hugo David Moline
Mima Kearns
Alex Whitton
Gareth Mantle
Nathan Fothergill
Randy Eveleigh
Roger Rajaratnam: Australia.
Kim Roberts (Lifta)
Alif Nadya Inniar Rosa
Noor Tibi (Lifta)
Yasid Abed Rego
Nihal Alayyah
Daoud Abdallah
Hala Atik
Shaden Qasem
Samira Shehadeh
Giselle Benitez: Planner, New South Wales, Australia.
Ruba Awwad
Marc Loran
Sandina Robbins
Rory Toomey: Architect, Australia.
Sarah Bridges: Australia.
Afaf Shehadeh
Sophia Hammoudeh
Liana Obeidi
Mohammad Abdlah Said Abdallah
Adwa Kamal
Osman M. Elkheir
Sulaiman M. Aqel
Fatimah Mohammed (Lifta)
Farhat Y. Muhawi (E1)
Brazilian Palestine Interest Committee (Lifta)
Nour Salman (Lifta)
M.J.Bissan
Heidi Splay
Anil Korotane
Alisar Aoun
Paul Ballora: Paul Balora Architects.
Claudia Cleaver
Abder Ghouleh: USA.
Damian Eckersley
Mohammad Odeh
Mariane Mathia
Hana Abdallah
Sulaiman M. Aqel
Mira Roses
Damian Eckersley
Mathew Bond, Australia.
Goren Vodicka
Mohammed Hilala
Shirin Alqadi
Mohamed Hdaib
Sami B Suriyisami
Susan Bromley
Stephen Hyland: Planner PGDiptp MRTPI.
Suhayla Odeh
James Charles Jameson: Australia.
Anthony McCInneny
Tony Horan (E1)
Christopher Myles
Susan Bromley
Richard Buckley
Thomas Ableman
Caroline Weir
Robert Cunningham
Christian Drinkwater

Source: http://apjp.org/signatories


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