Architect Dr Yael Reisner combines architectural practice with research, and curatorial work.
Portrait of Yael Reisner
This website communicates Reisner’s portfolio – her portrait as an architect - including all her different activities since she opened her Yael Reisner Studio in Tel Aviv in 1988, which moved to London in 1991.
Yael Reisner is a native of Tel Aviv who lives in London since 1990. She has a BSc (Hons) in Biology but switched to architecture, finishing her studies at the Architectural Association, London, and gaining her PhD from RMIT, Melbourne.
In December 2022 Reisner decided to take a dramatic step in her career and embark on an independent curatorial work, newly framed, taking place under her control, time and organisation.
By April 2023 Objects Beautiful was registered as a new company of which Reisner is its founder and director. Her leading intention is to have a space for exhibiting annually five exhibitions, along showing a core collection for sale, running events and debates, all focusing on the pursuit of beauty in the multidisciplinary range of visual arts and craft arts that she sees on an equal weight, particularly, when dealing with exquisitely beautiful collectible art objects. Those could be 2D objects, 3D objects, or virtual ones. This place will be opened towards the end of 2023, along a dedicated new website.
In January 2021 Reisner was elected to be a member at the Council of the Architectural Association, the AA governing body.
In May 2018, Reisner won the competition to curate the 5th Tallinn Architecture Biennale, TAB 2019. The Biennale included an exhibition, a symposium, a vision competition, and a catalogue, focused on exploring the theme Beauty Matters: The Resurgence of Beauty, based on Reisner’s long term research, started with her thesis (2009), book, (2010), and widened in scope since 2014, exploring disciplines including neuroscience, and mathematics, to understand beauty’s relevance to human life and knowledge.
She continues, seeking to explain the role of visual thinking and intuitive insight, in her quest to relate the enigma of beauty in the visual arts and craft arts, to human brain and sense of vision.
Simultaneously with her TAB 2019 activity, including co-editing its catalogue, Reisner was guest-editor of a complementary issue of Architectural Design magazine, AD Sep. 2019, published by Wiley, UK, entitled: Beauty Matters, Human Judgement and the pursuit of New Beauties. (05, vol. 89.) That issue shares this interdisciplinary interest in beauty and its symbiotic relationship with architecture. (Including, articles on Beauty by neuroscientist, philosopher, mathematician, beside those by the contributing architects.)
In 2010, Reisner’s book, written with Fleur Watson, Architecture and Beauty, Conversations with Architects about A Troubled Relationship, was published by Wiley UK. It was the catalyst for six symposia events at: the Royal Academy, London; Venice Biennale; Lund University, Sweden; SCI Arc, Los Angeles; Pratt Institute, NYC; and Tel Aviv University. In 2014, the book was translated to Chinese.
Yael Reisner Studio is committed to research-led projects, increasingly focused on human wellbeing and the built environment, where the experience of beauty is the aspiration. Her public works include: Take My Hand, Rights and Weddings, an installation that explored human rights and wellbeing in Placa de La Merce, Barcelona (2014) produced by the Enric Miralles Foundation.
Exhibitions include: In The Mirror, a large scale interior installation that explored the spatial experience of a pop music video. Designed together with Barnaby Gunning for ‘Tomorrow’s Party’, an exhibition of digital art, analogue artifices augmented digitally, and curated by Shang Shang, Beijing (2015). In 2011, Reisner was invited by the late Will Alsop to curate an exhibition at the TESTBED1 Gallery, Battersea, London. Turning the Tables explored the parameters of this everyday item, exhibiting 14 new tables.
Reisner has taught internationally since 2005 (Sci Arc, LA; Lund University; Architectural Association, London; ESA, Paris; Confluence, Lyon). Previously she taught at UCL The Bartlett for nine years, as M.Arch course coordinator and group tutor as well as Diploma Unit 11 Unit Master. In 2017 Reisner was a guest professor at Peter Behrens School of the Arts / Architecture and Design, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, and since 2017 sometimes acted as a PhD external examiner at RMIT.
Reisner’s full CV could be downloaded here.
Architect Dr Yael Reisner combines architectural practice with research, and curatorial work.
Portrait of Yael Reisner
This website communicates Reisner’s portfolio – her portrait as an architect - including all her different activities since she opened her Yael Reisner Studio in Tel Aviv in 1988, which moved to London in 1991.
Yael Reisner is a native of Tel Aviv who lives in London since 1990. She has a BSc (Hons) in Biology but switched to architecture, finishing her studies at the Architectural Association, London, and gaining her PhD from RMIT, Melbourne.
In December 2022 Reisner decided to take a dramatic step in her career and embark on an independent curatorial work, newly framed, taking place under her control, time and organisation.
By April 2023 Objects Beautiful was registered as a new company of which Reisner is its founder and director. Her leading intention is to have a space for exhibiting annually five exhibitions, along showing a core collection for sale, running events and debates, all focusing on the pursuit of beauty in the multidisciplinary range of visual arts and craft arts that she sees on an equal weight, particularly, when dealing with exquisitely beautiful collectible art objects. Those could be 2D objects, 3D objects, or virtual ones. This place will be opened towards the end of 2023, along a dedicated new website.
In January 2021 Reisner was elected to be a member at the Council of the Architectural Association, the AA governing body.
In May 2018, Reisner won the competition to curate the 5th Tallinn Architecture Biennale, TAB 2019. The Biennale included an exhibition, a symposium, a vision competition, and a catalogue, focused on exploring the theme Beauty Matters: The Resurgence of Beauty, based on Reisner’s long term research, started with her thesis (2009), book, (2010), and widened in scope since 2014, exploring disciplines including neuroscience, and mathematics, to understand beauty’s relevance to human life and knowledge.
She continues, seeking to explain the role of visual thinking and intuitive insight, in her quest to relate the enigma of beauty in the visual arts and craft arts, to human brain and sense of vision.
Simultaneously with her TAB 2019 activity, including co-editing its catalogue, Reisner was guest-editor of a complementary issue of Architectural Design magazine, AD Sep. 2019, published by Wiley, UK, entitled: Beauty Matters, Human Judgement and the pursuit of New Beauties. (05, vol. 89.) That issue shares this interdisciplinary interest in beauty and its symbiotic relationship with architecture. (Including, articles on Beauty by neuroscientist, philosopher, mathematician, beside those by the contributing architects.)
In 2010, Reisner’s book, written with Fleur Watson, Architecture and Beauty, Conversations with Architects about A Troubled Relationship, was published by Wiley UK. It was the catalyst for six symposia events at: the Royal Academy, London; Venice Biennale; Lund University, Sweden; SCI Arc, Los Angeles; Pratt Institute, NYC; and Tel Aviv University. In 2014, the book was translated to Chinese.
Yael Reisner Studio is committed to research-led projects, increasingly focused on human wellbeing and the built environment, where the experience of beauty is the aspiration. Her public works include: Take My Hand, Rights and Weddings, an installation that explored human rights and wellbeing in Placa de La Merce, Barcelona (2014) produced by the Enric Miralles Foundation.
Exhibitions include: In The Mirror, a large scale interior installation that explored the spatial experience of a pop music video. Designed together with Barnaby Gunning for ‘Tomorrow’s Party’, an exhibition of digital art, analogue artifices augmented digitally, and curated by Shang Shang, Beijing (2015). In 2011, Reisner was invited by the late Will Alsop to curate an exhibition at the TESTBED1 Gallery, Battersea, London. Turning the Tables explored the parameters of this everyday item, exhibiting 14 new tables.
Reisner has taught internationally since 2005 (Sci Arc, LA; Lund University; Architectural Association, London; ESA, Paris; Confluence, Lyon). Previously she taught at UCL The Bartlett for nine years, as M.Arch course coordinator and group tutor as well as Diploma Unit 11 Unit Master. In 2017 Reisner was a guest professor at Peter Behrens School of the Arts / Architecture and Design, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, and since 2017 sometimes acted as a PhD external examiner at RMIT.
Reisner’s full CV could be downloaded here.