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Rivka Oxman

Rivka Oxman was an Israeli architect and Technion professor who researched design and computation, including digital architecture.

1948 to 2025Research on digital architectural designTheories of the Digital in ArchitectureTeaching architecture at the Technion

Born: 6 April 1948
Died: 16 March 2025
Occupation: architect, university teacher
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Hebrew Reali School

Rivka Oxman was born in 1948

Rivka Oxman was born in 1948. Her father, Joseph Eidelman, was a structural engineer and Technion professor, and her mother, Miriam Eidelman, was a schoolteacher. She finished the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1966.

She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Technion. She later became a professor there and Vice Dean for Teaching at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning.

She was a visiting professor at Stanford University and Delft University of Technology and held research posts at MIT and Berkeley. Her work dealt with digital design and its role in new models of architectural practice. She was an associate editor of Design Studies and edited its special issues on digital design and parametric design thinking.

With her husband, architect Robert Oxman, she edited a 2010 special issue of Architectural Design and the 2014 book Theories of the Digital in Architecture. The couple had two daughters, Neri and Keren. She died in 2025.