Shlomo Aronson

Shlomo Aronson was born in 1936 in Haifa

Shlomo Aronson was born in Haifa on November 27, 1936. In 1960 he went to the United States to study landscape architecture.

He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. He then worked in Lawrence Halprin's office in San Francisco. In 1966 he completed a master's degree in landscape architecture at Harvard.

After work with The Architects' Collaborative and in London, he returned to Israel in 1968 and settled in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem. In 1969 he founded his own office, which grew to include architecture and urban planning. His projects include the Sherover Promenade, work at Yad Vashem, the national parks at Caesarea and Beit Guvrin, and the Sha'ar HaGai interchange.

He taught at Bezalel, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard. He chaired the Israel Association of Landscape Architects from 1991 to 1998. His books include Making Peace with the Land, published in 1998, and Aridscapes, published in 2008.

He received the Rechter Prize, the Karavan Prize, the Jerusalem Prize and the EMET Prize. He died on September 13, 2018, and was buried in Gan Yoshiya.