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Things you need to know about my mother.
She is in her 80s, and she goes to the office in Tel Aviv every day.
She is from a family of architects.
Who helped build Israel from the ground up.
Ada sees life through architecture.
She prefers to talk about this more than about other things.
Definitely more than personal things.
She left Israel twice.
Once to study architecture in London
And once because of my father's job in New York.
My sister Michal, my brother Gur and me
We grew up in New York.
But we returned to Israel every summer.
In 1983, Ada returned to Tel Aviv for a visit.
And her career unexpectedly took off.
She has been working in Israel ever since.
About some of the most important public institutions in the country.
My mother has lived alone in Israel for the past 40 years.
This is where its roots lie.
As a result of me looking for roots
So a lot of my buildings don't sit on zero-zero.
I mean, sometimes they climb above the ground.
And sometimes they go underground.
And there are many courtyards, what are called English courtyards.
The ground is revealed,
The house seems to descend deeper into the ground than it appears to the eye.
I'm looking for roots, that's true.
For myself too.
What are your earliest memories?
I only have one first memory.
I don't have many memories.
I have one memory of my father.
There was snow in Jerusalem.
, which doesn't happen often
And he took me to kindergarten.
On his shoulders.
He hugged me tightly.
That's what I remember.
High, as if, above the landscape.
And my dad actually protects me.
When we were children,
This place was very, very different.
...and idealism was
He was the outfit here.
You didn't need much...to be...
In a way, to be happy.
There were books and music.
That's how you grew up. There were youth movements.
The idea was that the land needed to be settled.
We all thought we were pioneers, going to settle the wilderness.
I mean, it was a country in the making, it was a place in the making.
And many, many memories.
I think we all grew up a little too seriously.
But this is such a generation.
"This is a generation that is "self-centered."
"I'm from a generation where the self wasn't that important."
"We all thought we needed to fulfill
"...to fulfill" is a word that came down. How do you say it? From the National Lexicon
Nobody accomplishes anything here.
We all went to the kibbutz and to Nahal for "fulfillment."
What is "fulfillment?"
"To fulfill" is not "rain." But it sounds like rain.
It's from the same root, that's interesting.
.fulfill
To accomplish what?
To fulfill the ideology you were raised on.
I think that despite all the conditions
And despite all the circumstances, and the wars and all that
It's important to know that there are roots here.
And there is a legend here that is worth preserving, that is special.
What's it like to live where you're going?
And you kept coming across buildings that your father designed?
My father built dozens of wonderful apartment buildings.
In Tel Aviv, a little in Jerusalem.
I never worked with him.
I just remember him sitting in front of blueprints.
And sang a little to himself
And roll down the window. I'll never forget that.
He should have put a window in the front.
He would take the window.
Walking with the window, walking with the facade: walking, walking, walking and saying
This is it.
This is a house that my father built.
It looks like fear.
Is this a house that a bear made? Yes.
...there were no air conditioners back then, so all the
I mean, all this space, for the balcony to go outside
And there's a space between the balcony and this one, it's full of air conditioners.
This is terribly ugly.
His buildings are always extraordinary.
He was such a down-to-earth man.
But he danced great...so what... is this?
Such a joy of life
That took this character out of her size many times.
I think his buildings are just like that.
There is something that has always been there that yearned for the earth.
And it had a root
,which is also heavy buildings
There is also such lightness in them.
So the ease really comes from the shadow.
, and by the details and all that
Like this kind of music
That begins and continues, and continues and continues
And echoes through the entire building.
I think he was like that.
...He was also a man. I think he was a happy man.
My father died terribly young, at the age of 56.
It was a terrible blow. Just a terrible blow.
I thought I wouldn't leave the house for a year, that much.
How old were you? I was 24.
.married
And pregnant.
.Thursday. It was really hard.
And you would dream about him?
I would dream terrible things.
I dreamed that I wanted to bring him back.
I'm ready... How do you say?
To give up what I have in my stomach.
.Terrible things. Terrible.
That I would sacrifice this for this.
I think both as an architect and as a person
There was something there... like very balanced.
As if I could always count on him.
We were physically close.
We would hug more than we did with my mother.
Strange, but that's how it was.
But it was impossible not to.
He would come, he would do this with his hands.
It was impossible not to enter.
You wanted to come in.
It was an open gate, an open gate.
In many ways, I still work for him to this day.
Even though he is a non-existent character.
Doesn't exist, I have no one to talk to in that sense.
Do you remember when we started speaking Hebrew or English?
I have no idea.
We would only speak Hebrew.
But then I think we spoke more English.
I just remember there was a time when we were
Returning to Israel
And all the English would go away, and you would only speak Hebrew.
And when we go there, all the Hebrew is gone, they only speak English.
And then, after a few years, it stabilized.
And you could speak two languages.
I think that even though I
I was abroad for many years.
My real home is still here.
The house with roots.
In other places I have a home without roots.
This is also true in language.
Language is the homeland, no less than the place.
But you were so attached to the place.
How did you and Dad decide to leave?
I was happy to leave, mainly for Amos.
He had several suggestions.
There was one offer he really wanted.
And it was clear to me that I had to do it.
Unlike other cities I've lived in
'New York was a bigger challenge...because...
Before you get used to it, it changes.
So in that sense, change was the constant.
He fixed me up.
He said: They come for a year or two, then he said:
He would say: What do you think, can I work here?
And to think we've been here for only a year or two?
I can't work like this.
Like all women, I gave up.
It never occurred to me that this was something I could stand.
Mom, did you always know you wanted to be a mom?
Not at all, why?
Who knows he wants to be a mother?
It comes by itself.
.yes
.this is
Yes? That's all? That's all you have to say about mothers.
No, you asked me if I wanted to be a mother.
So it's either yes or no? What can you say?
That's a question. Either you wanted to or you didn't.
What do you enjoy most about motherhood?
If you think back?
It almost grew on its own.
It's not like projects.
Without working, working, it doesn't grow.
It almost grew on its own.
It was amazing.
What really made me open is teaching.
I told Amos: Amos, this is Giorgola.
He offered me a job teaching at Columbia.
What to do?
He said: You have to try.
I said: What, I don't know how to stand in front of an audience.
I can't speak, I can't stand? What am I going to do?
He said: New York is a big place.
If you fall, no one will know.
So I went.
So, I actually taught
It seems to me 14 years, in the last year.
I met students who were starting projects
From starting points that I would never have been
I think this could be a start.
And they would talk to me about it.
And it opened me up in ways that I wouldn't have opened up otherwise.
So that was the first semester.
And that was the second semester.
So all this is evidence.
Chaos below requires "
"Structural clarity above."
I love it.
Ada: Start with the picture. This is a straitjacket.
How nice of you to have kept them.
She never showed her things, all of them.
Other people's things
Which she adored.
She was looking for principles that could be exhausted.
As a type of access to the building.
I think I learned more from her.
In those moments in the studio,
When she would give a short lecture or talk.
Ada: The legs are looking for the shortest path.
The eyes are looking for the longest.
I learned so much in this process.
The wonderful exotic Israeli accent.
I think everything sounds better in French or Hebrew.
The words were important to her.
She chose them carefully.
And I wrote many of them.
I still remember them.
Double-skin buildings, she loved it.
Buildings that have an external and internal envelope.
I liked it because she said...: When you separate
When separating the building from the envelope
Everyone can do what they like.
...Yes? It was... and I
Everyone can do what they like.
I can hear her say that.
It was easier for me because I taught with the pencil.
The words were actually marginal.
I would feel like I was using those words.
that my students use,
But behind every word they have layers.
And I, I have no layers, under my English.
So even though I say the same word
The word is uncharged.
, but here in Hebrew
You may feel the opposite, because you didn't grow up here.
That your Hebrew is not loaded, and my Hebrew is loaded.
And when it's charged, you have... a feeling that you
...more rooted, you're like
It comes from the roots, as if
...a very dedicated lecturer, very
Very sensitive to students
And sensitive to work.
And a very caring character.
She's always been like this.
I think it's beautiful, what she does.
I remember she taught at Yale.
And I taught at Yale.
She was in the back and I was in the middle.
It was easy to talk to her.
I respected her.
...she gave a feeling of
You felt she was trustworthy.
That comes from within.
Do you think it was harder for women in this profession than for men?
It's still harder, but it was much harder then.
Do you remember that Ada tried to get tenure?
Or were they considering giving her tenure?
No, I don't.
I mean... no.
Do you remember she didn't get tenure?
I remember, and I don't know why. Yes.
.Yes. That must have been an unpleasant moment.
...Did she stop teaching then? No, she
Yes, she took time off and started returning to Israel.
Yes...because she-
She wasn't offended... she was hurt.
Yes, right.
Because she was here for about 14 years.
...God, really.
Yes, I forgot that.
The architecture of the large and beautiful corridors
With the libraries along the corridors
There was architecture of a way.
Mom, wait for me.
I always come here, I think.
That's for a Fellini movie, this thing.
"Eight and a half"
"You saw 'Eight and a Half.' Do you understand?" -Yes.
...there's something about it like
A space waiting for a theater that never arrives.
Even the birds love it. Look at the birds.
Don't you sometimes think that buildings
?Looks best when under construction
Yes, much of it looks better in construction.
He will lose a lot of his strength.
When they add all the whitewash
...and all the little details
Yes, he will lose.
He will gain and lose.
I want to go right, okay?
There are two lines, two curved lines, yes.
They are not exactly the same curve.
What they do is cut the hatch.
In a way I never thought would happen.
You know, like, wow.
So there are many, many surprises.
Some are good.
And some of them are not so good.
What do you see?
It stands out, the aluminum.
There is no curve that does not falter.
Anyway, come on. It doesn't matter, come on.
It just makes me angry.
What's the problem with the doors?
The handle is in the wrong place.
If you have a big hand, you can't open the door because you...
So you have to push it.
And as a result, the doors need to be replaced.
All the doors, okay?
Is there something they did right here?
Very little.
Big fuck here.
Mom, what terrible talk.
"Puck" is bad language. Yes-
Many times you want to go back to the way
And it's less important for you to get to the rooms.
Because the road is more interesting than the rooms.
Usually the long way
It is the interesting way, and the shortest way.
, which is passed quickly
, is a functional way
It functions, it is effective.
She has all kinds of names.
...but it is much less
This is not a place where you do anything but move around.
On the long road
You can lean, you can chat, you can flirt.
You can do all sorts of things that you can't do.
By a short way.
It's like that in life too. Nothing comes out of the short cut.
On the long road of life.
Mother
Something you should know about me.
I designed this apartment. Ada's apartment.
Before I became a filmmaker
I was an architect.
But I left the profession.
Because I couldn't find my way through it.
When did you know you wanted to be an architect?
My dad said it might be worth it for me to do stage architecture.
Because stage design is architecture, for a short period of time.
A short dimension of time.
And Remy said I should go to AA (London)
And do the first year.
Basically I thought it was a profession.
For men only, like my brother and father.
Israel Prize in Architecture
Awarded to the architect Professor Ram Carmi.
Architect Professor Ram Carmi... stood out early in his career
I didn't get into architecture easily.
It wasn't something I slipped into like Remy.
Remi and I have been fighting since day one.
He was five years older than me.
He had friends, and I always wanted to see what his friends were doing.
And he would throw me out, didn't want to.
And I did want to, but it didn't help me.
And with Remi, nothing helped me until the end.
He would come home with a certificate.
"Everything was not enough."
He was very good at only two subjects: math and drawing.
And I would bring home everything the opposite.
Everything was very good.
And my father would look at the certificates, it would arrive at the same time
And he would tell me that my diploma was really boring.
And I need to learn from Remi.
What you love, you invest in, and you get very good results.
And everything else doesn't matter.
You don't need everything very well.
That doesn't make sense.
I think there was a relationship between the little sister who adores the big brother.
And there was truly something to admire. He was terribly talented.
The most important architect in Israel, by a large margin.
That's what everyone thought.
When he was in his own field, of new brutalism
And the architecture was very heroic, basically.
Very concrete, focused
He really was a wizard.
And he was not like the others either.
He was his own man, which is a lot to say about someone.
Do you remember why you returned to Israel? When I was still in school.
I knew I could work in an office.
, which was actually my father's office
But Remi, my brother, managed it all these years.
I thought it happened because I didn't get tenure.
I did not receive any appointments.
...it was part of something
I did not receive any appointments.
And I thought... yes
I thought if I didn't, I would get tenure.
So I actually want to work.
And where to work?
I had almost no work in New York.
I decided to return to Israel.
So you want us to look at you? When you were sweet and nice.
...Yes, a little? And quiet-
What a beautiful picture.
Is this not Michal?
Is it Michal or me? I think it's you.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe Michal.
It's clear. It's the innocent child.
The nicest.
Look how sweet you are.
It's your birthday.
.Makes an impression. Or of Michal
Where did we get a hat like that? I don't understand.
But something isn't clear to you either, right?
You were very young when I moved to Israel.
You were 12 or something like that, or 13.
Or maybe... I don't know.
.Fourteen .Fourteen-
And at the same time, I think
Your father took such good care of you.
That I thought I wouldn't be able to compete with.
He spoiled you endlessly.
But he was never around.
?He is. Yes-
No, from here it seems like he's always around.
Called you three times a day,
Know, at every moment, every minute, where you are, all of you.
And I couldn't call. Three times.
But he was traveling all the time.
I don't know. I think you took care of yourselves.
I don't know. I can't tell you.
...I never
Maybe I'm not that kind of Jewish mom.
I never worried.
I never cared about you.
So you're your daddy's girl.
You are not my girl.
Your daddy's girl.
It was never right for me to be far from you.
But I try to tell you all the time.
I had a framework.
Which compensated for many losses.
...she made me
She kept my sanity.
Have you had friends ask you how you do it?
...everyone thought that
...around me, that
That my life is different.
.Everyone. Still.
"How come all the kids are yours there and you're here?"
This is a typical question.
Look, Ada sacrificed a lot of things for the good of the profession, in my opinion.
What did she sacrifice?
You know she lived here and you lived there.
It's not... it's not that simple and obvious.
I never understood if the sacrifice
Made for work.
As if architecture is that important
And there are opportunities.
Or was it
More complex.
And that summer
There was a competition for the Supreme Court.
Invite us to a competition
Me and Rami together.
I didn't think we would win this competition.
...it was
Amos said we would win.
He was my best critic, without a doubt.
He had an amazing eye print.
Amazing.
And he saw the competition.
While we were serving this.
He said: You will win.
I said:
How do you say we win?
Richard Mayer was in the competition.
There was an IMP office.
It was a nightmare.
There were ten competitors.
Three of them were the most famous architects in the world.
It changed my life, really.
In all respects.
This is crazy.
Everyone thinks they need to join some bombastic lobby.
But you don't.
There is a large staircase.
, they go up in it
Then Jerusalem appears opposite.
There is never a time when I don't go to the Supreme Court.
And I look at Jerusalem as you climb the stairs
And I'm excited.
Sometimes even with tears in my eyes.
You have a conversation with the court. When you go in there.
You are not indifferent to him.
You don't say: Oh, beautiful.
Do you have any connection?
I, for example, didn't like the entrance to the US Supreme Court.
You enter and large columns
You look like you, a small, small, small person, walking into the hall.
And you come in here?
And the entrance is quite narrow and you are there.
You are the person. You are the center.
You enter your court.
There was a discussion about what is monumental.
Does the building have to be monumental?
So we used this.
"What is it called? "Monumental is when you do something."
.Which makes a person walk more slowly
Always remember
That this building was not built for this generation
Or for this person.
It was built for the State of Israel for many generations.
There are judges, they will come and go.
And I hope this court will stand its ground.
There was a Knesset somewhere.
And somewhere there was a bus stop.
And somewhere is the Mediterranean Sea.
And somewhere is the old city.
The crossroads, one might say, between the East and the West
That is, between the Old City and the Mediterranean Sea
Or between the desert and the blue.
We located the building at the intersection.
The Supreme Court was probably
My first big building.
And my first meeting with Rami.
We designed the Supreme Court in my father's office.
There were two floors.
Rami sat on the ground floor.
And I was sitting in the basement.
I basically sat with everyone who worked.
And Rami sat upstairs.
Because he had other projects.
I had nothing. I had only the Supreme Court.
When we did the competition
Rami went to read the Bible.
And he started writing down sentences from the Bible.
, which are bound by law and justice and truth
And there are such very, very beautiful sentences in the Bible.
Perhaps the most beautiful sentence is:
"Justice will be revealed from heaven, and truth will spring from the earth."
We humans do the truth, but justice is up there.
We can only strive for justice.
And another thing he found is that justice is circular.
And the truth is a straight line.
We found a circle and a straight line in the Bible.
This has already made it possible for us to do
Lines that are one-way and discontinuous lines like this.
So he went to the Bible.
I went to read a book by Aharon Barak.
He talks about it, that there are many precedents in the law
And that every time you want, invent a new law
You need to remember that there are precedents.
So you have to find a groove between the precedents.
And to go into this slot and insert the new law
So he won't blur what was before him.
And will not obscure what is behind it.
And I thought it was actually the same thing in architecture.
We are always building something, and entering into some kind of connection.
And in this context, there is the old, and there is the aspiration for the new.
And you have to somehow juggle between the old
Or between these layers of what once was
...and between the desire to innovate or change or
So we were in two separate places.
Me, I had sentences from Aharon Barak
The Bible and God.
That's how we started working.
They would sit facing each other, at the large table on Ben Zion Boulevard.
And by the way, it's very beautiful. You see, the sketches of the Supreme Court
He is drawing from this side.
And she draws from the other side, and actually
The sketch has no side, no direction, as if
It's both ways, it was very, very beautiful.
This is mine, even though it's 6B.
This... Here, this is Rami. This is Rami here too.
Whenever it's strong, it's him.
Is this him?
But there are... you see? There are small ones here, here
.yes
Remy would kill the paper.
Just sits down and kills the paper.
And what was so beautiful, I really love these things.
He would put one layer on and then he would do another layer and another layer.
And below, underneath that, all sorts of things would be slipping away.
That you will never find on a computer.
This wall, we went to the quarry
When you take a stone, you put it in a sawmill.
The stone is so big.
Put it in a sawmill, like a bread sawmill.
Then out come slices, slices, slices of stone
And all the hard work of the bread or all the hard work of the stone
There you see the stone as it was in nature.
But all the insides, it's like bread
Everything is white inside and there is a hard edge.
So also in stone.
Each piece like this has a memory of the stone only at the edges.
But at the end there are two kisses.
As in bread, two kisses.
"So this wall," he said, "let's make a wall of kisses."
And collected kisses for three or four years
So that we can have a kissing wall.
Is this the kissing wall? Is this the kissing wall, yes?
And all the entrances to the hall, and the entrances to the halls-
And since the wall is fat, as you saw earlier
So it's like a gate within a gate. A gate within a gate.
And actually, Remi and I have never made a floor that is shiny.
Not Rami in his buildings and not me in mine.
Then we came to our mother, who was the king of family cleanliness.
And we said to her: Look, there's a huge floor in the Supreme Court.
We are going to make a matte floor.
She said: No, don't do it.
We said to her: Why not?
"It's not appropriate for you to say 'brilliant.'"
It was never bright, in any house.
She said: No, make it shiny. So if they clean it, they will see that it is clean.
And there are days when we come here and say to each other:
Wow, it looks like water here. Like walking on water.
We would talk every morning.
, about what needs to be done
Then I would take the drawings.
And you go down.
I would start working on the drawings.
And the next morning I would come with the drawings.
Remy would do that.
As if I hadn't worked on anything.
And he would start again.
And I would say:
We decided on something yesterday.
He said, "Yes, but today I have a better idea."
And it happened almost every day.
...I thought
That's really hard.
They would enter the room and argue.
And we heard them arguing.
And we knew there was tension.
But we never saw them argue.
They didn't want to do it in front of everyone.
We didn't see.
They would enter the room, close the door.
We didn't see.
What was in the room was in the room.
It was between them, we don't know.
?Really. So I have no idea. Yes-
It was also very beautiful...as if. It was
He and she, you know, head to head, like, a closed door.
For the first time in my life I understood
That architecture is not necessarily a matter of harmony.
If there is a conflict in the building
And if you see that there were
Disagreements in the same building
In a way, the building is much more dynamic.
Than when it is harmonious.
So who supported you during that time?
I didn't receive any support.
I went home, sometimes I had
A few tears in his eyes.
Many tears in his eyes.
But who did you talk to about this?
Did you talk to Dad?
Yes, I would call.
I think I talked to Dad, yes.
In the US, but it was far away.
I didn't get any help.
All the staff who worked on the court,
Starting from consultants, various suppliers
And through Ada and Rami and the team themselves
Everyone felt a kind of mission.
Greetings from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Mr. Prime Minister, please.
When the Jewish people raised the foundation of justice
The Jewish people were at their greatest.
When the trial was over, the adjutant and the trampler
The people went from one place to another.
Upon completion of the construction of the Supreme Court,
Israel, a nation that has shown "little architectural leadership"
Created a building that could serve as an example to the world
"The potential of public infrastructure"
"To reflect the highest aspirations of a society."
When I think about it now,
This actually makes me sad.
Because it also seems to remind
A time when we expected
For a type of international leadership, from Israel
On reasoned, democratic, and liberal principles
And that probably didn't happen.
This makes me sad.
I'm sure it's even sadder for those involved in the building.
Because the nature of culture has changed
And politics in Israel does not advocate this today.
Notice the water motif.
Here the water bubbles like a woman's womb giving birth.
The straight line, which we said is a symbol of the law
This is the path of life.
To the goal, to the great circle of life, good and happy
And the building itself is a kind of basilica style.
,of a central hall
On the right and left, two sitars. With all that implies
Thank you very much. We are heading home.
Have a nice day.
What are they filming?
He's right, Ada.
It has nothing to do with anything.
...even if he's not right, he is. She is the architect of the building-
Is this Mrs. Carmi? Really, there's no connection.
All right, let's find out who we have the honor of.
What a story!
What a story, the waters from the womb.
You didn't plan. I didn't plan to have a uterus either.
How did you perceive Ada as a mother?
I think she carried a heavy burden for a very long time.
I think when she signed the document...
She talked to me about it when she had to do it.
Fried insisted that she sign the contract.
And one of the conditions of the Supreme Court contract
If only she could stay.
Only a few weeks a year, outside of Israel
But she had three children in the US.
And that was a concession.
...and I think
...I don't know how she is.
How did she resolve it with Amos?
But it's clear she succeeded.
More things you should know about my mother.
Ada and Rami graduated from the Supreme Court in 1992.
I came to work with her a year later.
I designed her office and her apartment.
Then I moved on to work in the film industry.
Ada says she doesn't mind that I left architecture.
But I know it bothers her.
She is jealous of her privacy.
And she doesn't usually invite people to her house.
When did you know or understand that you were no longer returning to New York?
That I'm not coming back?
Look, we worked on the Supreme Court for seven years.
From the day we received the project.
Six years.
These six years were actually a phenomenal school for me.
It was a very, very detailed building.
, which is performed tip-top
That the customer is a customer. Very, very interesting and unusual.
Everything was... it was like a gift in every way.
At first it was... like, you weren't with your family.
We were very close.
Was that hard for you?
Or were you so busy that you didn't have time to think?
I never knew it was final.
I didn't know what kind of situation I was getting into.
Which will basically determine my lifestyle for a long time.
I always thought, I'll do something.
And it will be, I know what, a year at most.
And then it will change.
I never took those fateful steps seriously.
When you look at it from the side, you think these are really big decisions.
But when you live in it, and you flow with it
It's not clear to you where this will go.
I spent six years with Rami.
Basically, we were very happy with each other in the end.
We thought it was a much better building.
Than any of us could have planned on our own.
But we got tired of each other and broke up.
In other words, until then we had a shared office.
And when it's over,
I just couldn't take it anymore.
I did it, and I told Rami.
Remi, I'm going, I need to be alone.
I can't be with you anymore.
I just left. I just knew I had to go.
But then I had to open my own office.
She would send us letters with cats.
This is beautiful.
Maybe she was nervous when she did it.
It's harder.
These are her people. I love her people.
.That's nice. That's different.
That's really nice.
...and the wind kept blowing
I really like this stage of the sketches.
No one in the office works with a pencil.
We're done with pencil. Just me in pencil.
I think it actually allows
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Compared to the search they can do on a computer.
There are guys in the office, let's say I tell them:
Check this corner.
They'll draw it out for me on the computer instead of freehand.
Alpha, the hand is free, going faster
But that, let's say, forget about it.
But what the computer outputs
Because of the quality of the line
And the similarity between line and line
Much less interesting than the hand on one side.
On the other hand, there is some order to it.
There is discipline in this, there is no order at all.
The hand seeks order.
I always think that with one ray of light that falls well
Everything can be changed.
All the geometry of the walls
And all the perspective that gathers, and shrinks upwards
Everything seems to be known in advance, and then a ray of light enters.
And the ray of light drives the whole space crazy.
And you walk there and turn our heads.
It's so beautiful that you're between two very different situations.
When he comes into the room
He changes all the qualities of the materials... He makes them...
Creates a certain softness within the room.
One of the first sentences I remember
When I first started working for Ada
That left a huge impression on me.
That's what I always say. The cheapest building material is light.
This is the first time we have had a website.
And we had no clue.
Everything was a disaster. What are we doing? Everything was a disaster.
So we thought we should be humble.
And somehow respect all the trees
All the vegetation here
And try to hide the height of our building
So it's not completely underground.
We needed someone
, that he will have an extremely high sensitivity
So that it doesn't have too dramatic an impact
On the basic nature of the place.
And what she did was done with great sensitivity.
And with restraint in relation to
To the other things that were there.
One of the most interesting things from an architectural point of view
...the thing about this is that there are two
There are two beveled edges.
They are going to travel like this.
And in between there is a space
And all the light naturally
Passing through this space
And jumps into the passage like this.
There is one passage, that's all.
, but there are a lot of vertical parts
So every minute you come in,
You get another event.
But something else interesting
We talk about light all the time.
And with light comes shadow
And shadow does exactly the opposite.
Light, what he does
Basically it makes you look up.
To see where it came from.
And a shadow makes you look down
So black pulls down.
And the light pulls you up.
You must understand.
...you are planning a building and thinking
Because I draw and sketch a lot.
:When I work on it, I think
Maybe I know him.
But once it's built... you feel like...
You barely know him at all.
Nice now, without people.
I think it's nicer.
When there are few people and you see the edge.
Would you plan the number of people?
I would plan the number of people.
That I would enter without noise.
?Only quiet, well-dressed people
No shouting.
No, it's a quiet place.
The shadow actually reinforces all gravity.
What we call the gravitational pull of matter
Because he's black, he's like he wants to land on the ground.
Mom, do you remember what it was like when Dad died?
Don't ask me such questions.
These are bad questions.
And I don't have an answer. I just get moody.
Of course I remember that.
I remember we drove straight to the congregation. Home, I remember it perfectly.
How many years is it?
.'m-94
What did I want to say? 94
'No, because it's not real, because 92. It was the Supreme Court that opened
And '94... wow
This is the one who called and said: You lost a friend.
It's as if the ground has opened up.
Sat at a table with friends for dinner.
His birthday, with the wine he loved.
Of course, with a white shirt and tie.
Because he was always so neat.
And all the friends left and he loosened his tie.
And placed his hands on the table.
And that's basically how he died.
Then the shadow lands.
It's like... it's not a gray shadow. It's a black shadow.
This is a strong shadow.
He falls on the stone and the plaster.
And it imprints shapes in a very, very prominent way.
Almost cruel to the white.
It changes all the properties of the wall.
You should know that we are not parting.
The one who tells us that someone is gone? He is gone, what kind of a gone?
It's not that you can't touch, but everything is possible except touching.
It's not easy, but the truth is, that's how it is.
And the same goes for my father or my mother.
...that they are not here, I
Really, I think you never part with the people you love.
Sometimes I think that's what it means
She is the one I have lived for a long, long time.
.already
So who wants to think about time?
We are not used to thinking about time.
We think time won't happen to us.
It will only happen to others.
But that's not true. It happens to everyone.
.Wow. Wow.
It's like entering Genesis now.
When we started working, they said:
No building can be built here without the Israel Antiquities Authority excavating.
Start digging, find a wall from time to time, from time to time, from time to time
This is this wall, a rock wall.
whose bottom is antiques
Roman shops carved into the rock, these are these openings, these are shops
There are also mikvahs. That is to say
Dig, find treasure here
We never imagined it would be here.
So the question was how to make a modern building.
He has no rhythm.
He sits on antiquities that must not be touched.
How to make a building like this?
So what we did is we actually made a building that doesn't try to
Make no concessions to what once was.
He says: I am modern, and I am as I am.
And it's ancient and it's just the way it is.
And these two have nothing in common.
And these are columns that are actually steel columns.
The thinnest that could be made
, and they are special pages
Because instead of making a pillar of oil
We decided to make columns, which are tubes.
Each column is three tubes.
And it has light coming from the ground. From the bottom.
At night it looks like pillars, which turn into upside down candles.
Because the light comes from below and not from above.
I don't remember when it was, our first meeting.
You said one thing.
And I mention it at every meeting, which is in the best interest of the matter.
We were standing somewhere up there.
:And you told us something like that. Don't touch anything here.
You need to keep quiet.
And you need to keep it from spreading destruction.
That's what you told me 12 years ago.
The Western Wall plaza should convey destruction.
...so now he understands me-
Okay, come on. Let's move.
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About her researched and cited works
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Still, it's important for me to say that there is always a hidden player.
He pushed.
And he caused a lot of things to happen to a person.
In my family case
There is one mother who pushed everyone away.
And the truth is, she deserves an award more than all of us combined.
My father also received an award, my brother also received an award.
And me too, but if only I could
I would bring her this high school diploma.
And tell her thank you.
...my mother
It's like the three of us are architects.
My father is an architect, Rami is an architect. And I'm also like, architects.
Without it, none of us are worth anything.
We all knew that.
She was the driving force in the family.
With lots and lots... lots of good taste
And a lot of very clear opinions.
She would say: There is, either black or white.
Everything else is psychology.
So there's something to it, right?
It is either right or wrong, either true or false.
And everything in between, which is almost true and almost false.
It didn't bother her.
I was at her place every evening.
Comes from the office, finishes at 6:00 PM to work
Go, have dinner with her and go home.
And it was very difficult. Years-
...yes, because it was
There was a commitment.
And I didn't ask myself if I could not go.
Time, they don't teach us about time.
But maybe it's impossible to learn the time.
Maybe it's really complicated.
...Yes. You think
How can it happen that sometimes a day takes ten days?
?And sometimes a day takes a moment? What is this?
...Who is fooling us? Who
How is that?
I always think you're looking back.
All the decisions seem very logical to you.
But now you have a very divided life.
How do you view the split?
I don't really understand the question.
You have a divided family.
...Ah ...Ah-
No. I didn't understand.
Split, I thought you were talking about that.
That my buildings are buildings that speak more than one language.
No, no, I'm trying to talk about more personal things.
The split is not good.
This is not good for the long term.
There are times when solitude helps you.
...as if
To go into something more deeply
Or not to think about the concept of time
But sometimes the concept of time hits you in the head.
And you actually realize there's something to this rhythm.
That you manage your own pace all the time, all by yourself
That it's hard, just hard.
There is no one here.
There is no family here, just family memories.
Anyway, let's not talk about that. It's unnecessary.
Were you hoping that one of us would come back here?
Not now.
It's terribly sad, what I'm saying. Not now.
...I think this place is really
In another situation.
And I think too
That one of the reasons I'm connected to this is related
To things that were here before.
These are not the things that are here now.
...I love him because
Things that no longer exist.
In a real sense, for me.
Is there something you want to ask me?
Yes. How do you manage to love me? For so many years
What's so funny? I'm not with you.
I was the least with you.
So how do you understand time?
When you are deeply connected, and it's not exactly about time.
Like everyone else, I'm trapped by this idea.
That age 20 is more significant than other numbers.
A person often thinks
That tomorrow will be better
And the "storm" will soon pass.
False hopes
I often think that the last few weeks
They were so terrible.
That we won't come out of them in one piece
That we are divided here forever
And since the only glue is the past
Not much chance
For the fresh, brave, and imaginative thought
To emerge and rise above the chaos.
?what
There are demonstrations here every Saturday.
And every Saturday it grows.
The power of the Supreme Court to override the Knesset
All kinds of things like that.
It doesn't make you feel weird.
Did you design this building?
No, it's not about that. It's bigger.
I must admit
I have a lot of tears in my eyes.
I wish you were all here with me like I wanted to.
To impress you all with the same feelings.
I miss you, Yaeli.
Take care of yourself and be good to yourself.
Love and lots of kisses, Mom.