Zvi Efrat lives in Tel Aviv. He is an architect, historian, and architecture critic. He is Head of the School of Architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, a partner in Efrat-Kowalsky Architects, and the editor of Studio Art Magazine, Tel Aviv. He was the curator of Borderline Disorder, at the Israel Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale (2002). His recent research, The Israeli Project: Building and Architecture 1948-1973, investigates the physical making of the State in the 1950s and 1960s and was displayed as an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2000/2001. It became the groundwork and general reference material for academic, professional, and public discourse concerning the local intricacies of territorial and regional planning, town planning, public and private building design, and landscaping.