liadsman@gmail.com
+1 857 772 9948
New-York based, Israeli-born architect, researcher, writer, and exhibition designer. B.Arch at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, M.Arch II from Harvard GSD.
2019 – 2021
Harvard GSD, Cambridge – M.Arch II Post Professional Degree
Thesis Instructor: Max Kuo
2015
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME), Budapest – Student Exchange Program
Final Project Instructors: Csaba Kovács, Tamás Nagy
2011 – 2016
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem – B.Arch, Registered Architect
Thesis Instructors: Nilly R. Harag, Uriel Kon
2022
"The Hybrid Factory", Editor
Book by Nina Rappaport
"A Worker's Lunchbox", Exhibition Designer
Film installation at the Gene Frankel Theatre, NYC
2021
"Jerusalem Stone", Presented at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale
Contributor in Olafur Eliasson's exhibition "Future Assembly"
"The Moment Before", Yale Paprika! Magazine, Volume 7 Issue 1, Editor
Issue editor with Stav Dror
2020
"To Seed and To Unseed", published in Yale Paprika! Magazine
https://yalepaprika.com/folds/a-field-to-seed-or-not-to-seed/to-seed-and-to-unseed
Author with Stav Dror
“The Future of Smart Cities”, research for COX Innovation Taskforce
Architectural and urban research for COX Innovation Taskforce
“Napkin: A Student-Led Publication”, Founder and Editor (In Production)
A recently founded, GSD supported architectural magazine focused on student works
2019
“Prospects of an Objectivist Space”, research for the Ayn Rand Institute
Architectural and conceptual research
2018
“Issue 2: HOLY”, MASSA Magazine, Editor
Editor of the latest volume of MASSA magazine. Presented at the 2018 Art Book Fair of New York in the MoMA, as well as the Dublin and Berlin Art Book Fairs of 2018
2017
"Destruction Lullaby", Exhibition Designer and Contributor
Together with Naomi Slaney
2017 – Present
Independent planning and consultancy
Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York
The Media Compass, Israel
Architectural Designer and Consultant
Efrat-Kowalski Architects, Tel Aviv
Architectural Intern
2006 – 2016
Digital Product Design
UI/UX designer, director, and team leader. Partners and clients include COX Communications, Kaizennovations, TestFairy, Shaquille O’Neal, She’s a 10 Female Social Initiative, Appoxee
Pinocchio Children’s Library, Italy – Honorable Mention
Competition by YAC (Young Architect Competitions) to design a children’s library based on the tales of Pinocchio. In partnership with Shahar Glass, Simon Barazin
Housing of the Future – 3rd Place
Competition by the Tel Aviv Municipality to design housing typologies for the near future. In partnership with Meira Kowalski, Avinoam Sharon, Adi Samet, Talma Weitzner
2014
The Unexpected City – Finalist
Competition by UIA-HYP Cup 2014 International Student Competition, responding to a future local disaster or threat. In partnership with Shahar Glass
Harvard GSD Scholarship
$75,000
Moshe Safdie Fellowship Grant
$10,000
2021- 2022
Adjunct Professor, 1st Year Studio
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston
Workshop Leader – “Same Place Twice”
Workshop for 1st year B.Arch students on the role of documentation and analysis in planning
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Panel Member – New Manifesto
Invited member on a project to re-establish the Academy’s long term pedagogy and manifesto
Instructor – Harvard GSD J-Term
Workshop for GSD students regarding Situationist philosophy and urban exploration
Harvard GSD
2017 – 2021
Returning Design Critic
Workshop Leader – “Sequences”
Workshop for 1st year B.Arch students on documentation and analysis of public space
Liad Sandmann
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