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Yuval Baer

Yuval Baer is an Israeli architect based in Jerusalem and an associate professor (artist track) at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

born 1958Edmond and Lily Safra brain centerBBC Middle East Bureau, JerusalemTeaching architecture at Bezalel

Occupation: architect
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Columbia University

Yuval Baer was born in 1958 in Jerusalem

Yuval Baer was born in Jerusalem in 1958. He grew up in the Rehavia neighborhood in a family of academics.

He studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1983 to 1985. He earned his B.Arch from the Technion in 1988, after completing his final project at the Pratt Institute in New York under Raimund Abraham. In 1990 he received an M.Sc. in architecture from Columbia University.

He worked in New York offices, including that of Richard Meier, and then at David Resnick's office in Jerusalem. In 2005 he opened the firm YBGSNA with Galit Shifman-Nathan, and in 2023 he started his own studio, BAER Architecture & Urban Design. His projects include the BBC Middle East Bureau in Jerusalem and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, designed with Foster and Partners.

He has taught at Bezalel since 1992 and became an associate professor in the artist track in 2024. He has exhibited at the Eretz Israel Museum, the Ramat Gan Museum and the Venice Biennale of Architecture.