Sharon Rotbard

Sharon Rotbard was born in 1959 in Tel Aviv

Sharon Rotbard was born in Tel Aviv on October 2, 1959. From 1982 to 1984 he studied fine arts at HaMidrasha Art College. He then studied architecture in Paris at the École Spéciale d'Architecture from 1985 to 1991.

After his studies he worked at Paris architecture offices, including that of Jean Nouvel. He returned to Israel in 1993 and worked as a project architect in the office of Avraham Yasky until 1997.

In 1995 Babel publishers was founded with his wife Amit. From 1998 he edited its architecture series, and later its fiction series, The Library of Babel, with translated and Israeli authors. In 2000 he moved Babel to a concrete house he designed in the Shapira neighborhood of south Tel Aviv.

His first book, White City, Black City, appeared in 2005 and looks at the history of Tel Aviv and its relationship with Jaffa. In 2007 he published a monograph on Avraham Yasky. In 2008 he founded the practice Babel architectures, and he teaches architecture at Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.