Itaico's CV

Sep.2009

Itay Cohen (B.1982)

Curriculum vitae

11 Dakar St. Haifa, Israel 34862 +972 54 4911686 itaico@gmail.com Education B. Arch. Ed - Bachelor of Architecture and Education

2005-2010

Neri Bloomfield WIZO School of Design, Haifa, Israel

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Expected cumulative GPA – 92.54 High School Diploma (with excellence) 0B

1997-2001

WIZO High School for the Arts, Haifa, Israel Majored in still photography.

Awards and Publications Competitions: 1B

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2nd prize winner, Jerusalem Seminar of Architecture: Design of a

2009

mobile sustainable market stall.

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Community V2.0, shortlisted , Un-built category, AI magazine's

2009

Project of the Year awards.

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1st prize winner, Beth HaTfutzot Museum of Jewish Diaspora: Design of

2008

a temporary installation.

Exhibitions: 2B

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Suk and Cook project, in 'The Future of Hadar Hacarmel', exhibition

2009

of selected student projects at the Municipal Council Building, Haifa.

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Community V2.0, in 'Ze Israel 2', exhibition of winners and shortlisted

2009

entries of AI magazine's Project of the Year award competition, ZeZeZe Gallery of Architecture, Tel Aviv.

Publications: 3B

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Archiblender – Author and Co-founder 'Archiblender' – a nonprofit

2007-

architecture blog in Hebrew. This blog is popular among Israeli architects, designers and students (aprox. 1800 regular visitors) web: http://archiblender.blogspot.com •

Mor, Avital, "Stepping up", Bait VeNoi architecture magazine, vol.73

2007

(Oct 2007); pages 134-137 – Design of a staircase for an Apple store was featured there.

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Maor, Sarah and Verner, Igor, "Mathematical Aspects in an

2007

Architectural Design Course: The Concept, Design Assignments and Follow-up" , Nexus Journal of Architecture and Mathematics, vol.9 (2007); 363-376 – Several projects done on Mathematics for Designers course were featured there 1

Professional Experience Title: Architecture Apprentice

2007-

Yoram Popper Architects, Haifa, Israel •

Hired after 2nd year of architecture school, after tutoring me in class

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Simultaneous Work on several projects, e.g.: o

Industry – Taking part in the design of a 60,000 sq. m, 3 factory complex at different stages of the design process.

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Residential – Taking part in the design of several single and dual family houses

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Public buildings – Taking part in the design of a museum expansion and the design of a college

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Competitions –Developing competitions entries as part of the office team

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Involved in all aspects of design: Conceptual design, 3D space studies using computerized models, Documenting, Drafting and Coordinating activities with clients, constructors, advisors and surveyors. Modeling and rendering

Title: Photographer & Post-production artist

2005-2007

Keren Or Photography Studio , Haifa, Israel

2000-2002

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After graduation from photography high school, was hired as a photographer's assistant and post-production artist. I worked there during my pre-military voluntary year until I was drafted and then after my discharge for two more years. My work included: o

Composition, lighting and photography

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Photo editing, fixing and proofing for print

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Managing the studio's archives

Teaching Experience Title: Architecture Tutor assistant

2008-2009

Neri Bloomfield WIZO School of Design, Haifa, Israel

2006-2007

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Served as an architectural design studio assistant in both my second and fourth year.

Title: Sketchup and Photoshop Teacher

2007-2008

'Cavim' Institute for Architecture and Design , Haifa, Israel •

Prepared the syllabus and taught 6 weekly hours semester Sketchup and Photoshop Course for architecture practical engineers.

Title: Photoshop Teacher,

2005-2006

WIZO High School for the Arts, Haifa, Israel •

Photoshop Course for Fashion Design high school students 2

Voluntary Work Pre-Military volunteer Shnat Sheirut program, Dor Shalom movement.

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2000-2001

Postponed my military service in a year to take part in a volunteer program in which I lived in an autonomous commune with 5 other volunteers and took part in several volunteer projects simultaneously: o

In House photographer at the Shabtay Levi orphanage of children from 0 to five years old – As these kids grow in an institute, there is no one there to take pictures of them as they grow up. As a result of that, those orphans have no photos or albums from their childhood. My job as the in house photographer was to spend several hours a week with these kids and take their pictures while they stay in the institute or when they go for trips or outside activities. Later I would catalog the negatives and photos and arrange personal albums for each child. It was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.

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Youth guide and tutor – our commune was set in a rough neighborhood with no youth movements or afterschool activities. Our commune of 6, with the help of several students from Haifa University, started a 'learning center' at the local primary school; It was a place that the local children could come to and get free assistance with their homework, and at the same time doubled as a youth movement, as activities, group sessions and lessons were arranged.

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Computer Teacher for elderly people – I taught basic computer skills to groups of elderly people (55+). They started with basic computer operation and finished at browsing the internet, using MS word and chatting.

Compulsory Military Service Life Support Technical Instructor, Israeli Air Force.

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2002-2005

Have taught and supervised technical personnel training in the field of pilot and air crew life support, rescue and survival.

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Was in charge of transforming conventional teaching methods to ELearning computer systems

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Constructed new training courses from scratch

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Awarded for excellence in teaching.

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Honorably discharged at the rank of First Sergeant.

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Computer skills •

Professional level – Autodesk Autocad, Google Sketchup, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Lightroom, Nextlimit Maxwell Render, MS office, WinXP OS

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Intermediate level – Autodesk Revit, Autodesk 3DSmax, Adobe Illustrator, RN&A Rhinoceros, MacOS.

Hobbies and interests •

Still Photography

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Guitar playing

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Cinema and Theatre

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Reading books of all sorts

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Hiking

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Computers and internet

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Blogging architecture at archiblender.blogspot.com

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Interested by default – I truly enjoy learning, on most topics I can think of

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