Dan Eytan

Dan Eytan was born in 1931 in Ein Shemer

Dan Eytan, born Ettingen, was born on June 28, 1931, at Kibbutz Ein Shemer. As a child his family left the kibbutz and moved to central Israel. He studied sculpture at the Avni Institute.

He turned to architecture after entering a competition for a memorial and finished his studies at the Technion in 1955. As a student he worked in the office of Zeev Rechter. He then worked in an architecture office in Finland and later for Dov Karmi.

From 1958 to 1965 he ran a joint office with Yitzhak Yashar. Their work included buildings at the nuclear research center in Dimona, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Mexico Building at Tel Aviv University. He opened his own office in 1966 and was a partner of Ari Goshen from 1978 to 2010.

His later projects included Clal Center and the Israel Police national headquarters in Jerusalem. He took part in planning cities in Israel and Iran, became a professor at the Technion and chaired the national architects association from 1986 to 1988.

He was married to writer Rachel Eytan and later lived in Herzliya Pituach with architect Ruth Lahav, with whom he opened an office. He died on January 11, 2023, and was buried at Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery.