Dan Price will talk about the work of Studio 1:1, Israel's first and largest Design-Build program. Established in 2018 by Dan and Michal Bleicher, the studio nurtures the idea of architectural design that reinforces the architect's social and environmental responsibility. Collectively, the students design and build a small building (approximately 100 m2) for a real client on a real site within a fixed budget. Together with local volunteers, the students build the building on site during the two-week Construction Workshop. Dan will discuss the process and show some of the projects built over the past few years.

Dan Price is an architect with a BArch from the Technion an MSc and PhD from Tel Aviv University.

He began his professional career working with Ram Karmi and Ada Karmi-Melamede designing the Supreme Court of Israel. Following the completion, Dan and Ada Karmi-Melamede formed a partnership designing projects from private houses to public buildings, some of which are amongst the most iconic public buildings in the contemporary Israeli landscape.

Together with Ada Karmi-Melamede he co-authored 'Architecture in Palestine during the British Mandate, 1917-1948'. The book and drawings were the subject of an exhibition at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem and at Yale University, USA.

Dan’s research focuses on social housing. His latest book “Celebrating the Commons: Social Housing in Israel 1948-1967” (in Hebrew) was published in 2023 and the English edition is in the works.

Together with Michal Bleicher he established the Design-Build studio commonly known as Studio 1:1 seven years ago. The studio has designed and built 12 projects which will be the subject of the lecture.