Michael Jacobson

Michael Jacobson was born in 1979 in Tel Aviv

Michael Jacobson was born in Tel Aviv on November 1, 1979.

He graduated from the architecture department of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2006. In 2014 he completed a master's degree in geography at Tel Aviv University. From 2009 to 2014 he was part of the Urban Design Lab headed by Professor Tali Hatuka.

Since 2006 he has worked at an architecture firm in Tel Aviv on master planning and policy documents. Since 2009 he has written about architecture sites in Israel and abroad on Rear Window, and in 2014 he received the Rechter Prize for a young architect. He also wrote regularly for Xnet from 2011 to 2021 and for Hed HaHinuch from 2009 to 2017.

From 2013 he curated a series of exhibitions on architecture, including shows on the firm Nadler Nadler Bixon Gil, architect Menachem Be'er and artist Moshe Saidi. He has written and co-written books and catalogs, among them Max Israeliana in 2017. He served as a judge for the Reznik Prize in 2018 and the Armon Foundation prize in 2021 and 2024.