Art and designמוטי בודק

Moti Bodek

Moti Bodek is an Israeli architect who heads Bodek Architects in Tel Aviv and is a professor of architecture at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

born 1961Founding Bodek ArchitectsBiomimicry in architectureSports centers and stadiumsTeaching architecture at Bezalel

Occupation: architect
Education: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Clark University

Moti Bodek was born in 1961 in Haifa

Moti Bodek was born in Haifa in 1961 and grew up there. He served in the Israeli security forces from 1979 to 1985.

In 1989 he graduated with honors in environmental design from Bezalel in Jerusalem. In 1990 he received a B.Arch. from the Technion in Haifa, and in 1995 he earned a master's degree from Clark University in Massachusetts.

He worked at the Yasky architectural firm in Tel Aviv and founded his own office around 1990. His projects include sports centers in Eilat and Tel Aviv, the Tiberias stadium, pedestrian bridges in Ashdod and the Meron School in Tel Aviv.

He began teaching at Bezalel in 1991 and was deputy head of the architecture school at Ariel University from 2001 to 2004. He is a professor at Bezalel and a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University, and helped found the council of staff organizations in higher education.

His research and design work is based on biomimicry, the imitation of systems from nature. His work was shown at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. He is married with 5 children and lives in Tel Aviv.