Ilan Pivko

Ilan Pivko was born in 1947 in France

Ilan Pivko was born in France in 1947. His father was an orthopedist who later headed the orthopedics department at Hadassah Hospital, and his mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Israel when he was 2 and settled in Tel Aviv, where he attended Tel Nordau Elementary School and Geula High School.

He studied architecture at the Technion in Haifa and graduated in 1975. He then returned to Tel Aviv and trained at the Yasky firm.

After his training he ran a bamboo and wicker furniture business called Gazebo. In 1981 he opened his own office, which employs about 40 architects. The firm works on urban plans, residential towers, hotels, public buildings, villas, offices, interior and product design, and real estate development.

His projects include a seafront development at Port Tel Aviv and the 4Florentine residential complex in Florentin. In Jaffa he has worked on adding new structures to historic buildings, keeping Byzantine and Ottoman remains. He lives in an apartment he designed in Jaffa's port area.

In 1991 the Israel Museum held a solo exhibition of his work. In 1998 the channel ARTE produced a documentary film about his architecture.