Ariel Genadt

Ariel Genadt is an architect and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Architecture. He has also taught at Swarthmore College and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. His research and teaching focus on the relationships between construction and cultural expression in architecture, with a concentration on modern Japan. He holds a PhD in Architecture from Penn, a Master of Arts in Histories and Theories of Architecture from the Architectural Association, London, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Technion, Israel. Genadt has worked as an architect for over a decade in Paris and in Jerusalem, on projects in France, Britain, Greece, Israel, Morocco, Senegal, China and Japan. His work has been published in the JSAH, Baumeister, Architect’s Newspaper and Mésologiques. He is curator of the 2018 exhibition Critical Abstractions – Modern Architecture in Japan 1868-2018 at the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives. He is currently working on a book on the work of Kuma Kengo.