Ph.D. Dissertation
Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel-Aviv University
Title of Thesis: The architecture of the Jerusalem YMCA building (1919-1933): constructing multiculturalism
Supervisor: Dr. Edina Meyer-Maril
275 pages
Scientific Books – Published (Refereed)
Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, Architectural Culture in British Mandate Jerusalem, 1917-1948. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
Edited Books and Special Journal Issues
1. Regine Hess, Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, Yael Allweil, and Tzafrir Feinholz, Between Conventional and Experimental – Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modern Architecture, Leuven University Press, 2024.
Open Access [and print]: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93588
2. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal and Anat Geva, Israel as A Modern Architectural Experimental Lab, 1948-1978, Edited book for series: Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East, edited by Mohammad Gharipour & Christiane Gruber, published in association with the Society of Architectural Historians of the USA, Intellect Books, 2020.
Reviewed by Noam Shoked, JSAH 80.3 (2021): 365-366.
3. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, Yael Allweil, Dana Gordon and Eran Tamir (Eds.), Timely Teaching: Educational Idealism and Modern Architecture, Architects House Gallery (Israel Association of United Architects), Tel-Aviv Yafo, 2017 (Hebrew and English).
4. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal (Ed.), Monuments and Site-Specific Sculpture in Urban and Rural Space, Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Newcastle on Tyne, 2017.
Articles in Refereed Journals
1. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Modern Typologies as Spaces of Inter-Religious Engagement in British-Mandate Jerusalem, 1917–1938,” Religions 15 (no. 12, 2024), 1490. Special issue: Inter-Religious Encounters in Architecture and Other Public Art.
DOI: 10.3390/rel15121490
2. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, Book Review of: Ayala Levin, Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958-1973 (Duke University Press, 2022). Israel Studies Review 38 (no. 2, 2023), 170-172.
DOI: 10.3167/isr.2023.380211
3. Allweil, Yael & Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler “Middle-Class by Design: Mass Housing Estates and the Consolidation of the Israeli Urban Middle-Class,” DoCoMoMo Journal 68 (2023): Middle Class Mass Housing, 18-25.
DOI: 10.52200/docomomo.68.02
4. Lachover, Einat and Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, “Gendered National Memory on Israeli Postage Stamps: From Gender Blindness to Feminist Commemoration.” Israel Studies Review, 37 (no. 3, 2022): 109-133.
DOI: 10.3167/isr.2022.370306
5. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal “What’s in the Mix? Mixed‐Use Architecture in the Post‐World War II Years and Beyond,” Urban Planning 7, no. 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i1.4802.
6. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal and Bar Leshem, “Creating Museum Culture in British Mandate Palestine: Vision and Reality,” Israel Studies vol. 26, no. 3 (2021), pp. 138-157 (Special issue New Scholarship on the British Mandate in Palestine, edited by Ilan Troen and Natan Aridan). https://doi.org/10.2979/israelstudies.26.3.09
7. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal and Einat Lachover, “Gendered Memory and Miniaturization in Graphic Design: Representations of Women in Israeli Postage Stamps,” Design Issues, 37:3 (2021): 18–32. https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00645
8. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “New Brutalism, New Nation: Ram Karmi’s Assimilation of Brutalism in Israel’s Arid Region Architecture,” The Journal of Architecture 26, no. 3 (2021), 316-339. 2021DOI:10.1080/13602365.2021.1896566
9. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Die Wüste formen: Bauhauserbe in Israel,” Jüdische Geschichte & Kultur 3 (2019), 38–41. [German].
https://www.dubnow.de/publikation/juedische-geschichte-kultur-magazin-des-dubnow-instituts-3
10. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Visualizing Democracy, difference and Judaism in Israeli Posters, 1948-1978,” Israel Studies (22, no. 3, 2017), 48-76.
DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.22.3.03
11. Har-Gil, Amir and Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, “Landscape and Architecture of the Israeli Kibbutz as represented in Film and Television,” Israel Studies Review, 30, no. 1 (2015), 101-129. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.3167/isr.2015.300107
12. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Between Gender, Architecture and Design: Some visual perspectives of online journalism,” History and Theory: The Protocols, Vol. 20: “Readings,” April 2011. Online Journal of the Bezalel Academy of Art, http://journal.bezalel.ac.il/he/protocol/article/3272 [Hebrew]
13. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Reconstructing Religions: Jewish place and space in the Jerusalem YMCA Building, 1919-1933,” Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, (60, no. 1, 2008), 41-62.
DOI: 10.1163/157007308783360543
14. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Biblical Imagery in the Sculptural Program of the Jerusalem YMCA, 1919-1933,” Motar (15, 2007), 95-106 [Hebrew].
https://arts.tau.ac.il/Researches/journals/motar
15. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “‘Marrying Modern Progress with Treasured Antiquity’: Jerusalem City Plans during the British Mandate, 1917-1948”, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (published by IASTE, University of California, Berkeley) (15, no. 1, 2003), 39-58. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41758029
16. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “C.R. Ashbee's Jerusalem Years: Arts & Crafts, Orientalism and British Regionalism”, Assaph: Studies in Art History, 5 (2000), 29-52 [Hebrew]
https://arts.tau.ac.il/Researches/journals/asaf-art-history
Under Review:
Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Knowledge Transfers in the Architecture and Built Environment of Israel/Palestine in the Heyday of Ottoman Rule and during the British Mandate,” submitted to a special issue of Israel [Hebrew].
Articles or Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Scientific Books
1. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, and Yael Allweil, “Another Slab, Sheet, and Brick in the Wall: The Surge of Prefabrication in Israeli Housing, 1960-1980,” in: Regine Hess, Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, Yael Allweil, and Tzafrir Feinholz, From Conventional to Experimental — Mass Housing and Prefabrication, Leuven University Press, 2024, 121-142.
2. Dalit Shach Pinsley, Idan Porat, Liran Duani, Noa Zemer, Adi Hamer Yacobi, Yael Allweil and Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, “Israel,” in: European Middle-Class Mass Housing: Past and Present of the Modern Community Edited by Inês Lima Rodrigues, Dalit Shach-Pinsly, Kostas Tsiambaos, Vlatko P. Korobar, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), 2023, 290-317.
3. Lachover, Einat and Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, “A stamp of her own: design and commemoration in Israeli stamps depicting women,” in Na’ama Sheffi and Edna Lomsky-Feder, eds., Memory, Objects and Representations, Pardess Publishers, 2023, 307-336. [Hebrew].
4. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Some notes on Applying Postcolonial methodologies to Architectural history research in Israel/Palestine,” in: Martha Langford (Ed.), Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World, McGills-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 2017, 100-122.
5. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, and Shlomit Tamari, “The Marcus Family Campus: New Design and Contemporary Architecture,” in: Yehuda Grados and Isaac (Yanni) Nevo (eds.), Science and Scholarship in the Negev: The Story of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, Beer-Sheva, 2014, 551-580. Section 4, chapter 2 [Hebrew].
6. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Campus Architecture as Nation Building: Israeli Architect Arieh Sharon’s Obafemi Awolowo University Campus in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1962-1976,” in: Lu, Duanfang (Ed.), Third World Modernism: Architecture, Development, and Identity, Routledge, Oxon and New York, 2011, 112-140.
Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books related to Exhibitions
1. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal and Anat Geva, “Brutalism and Structuralism in the South: The Impact of Eldar Sharon,” in: Arieh Sharon: The State’s Architect, Eran Neuman )Ed.), Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2018, 424-431. [Hebrew].
1a. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal and Anat Geva, “Brutalism and Structuralism in the South: The Impact of Eldar Sharon,” in: Arieh Sharon: The State’s Architect, Eran Neuman )Ed.), Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2023.
2. Engleman, Adi and Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, “Dani Karavan: Square of Tolerance: Tribute to Yitzhak Rabin,” in: UNESCO Art Collection – in honor of UNESCO’s 75th Anniversary, 2021.
3. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Arieh and Eldar Sharon,” in: Benno Albrecht (Ed.), Africa: Big Change Big Chance, Trienalle di Milano, Editrice Compositori, Bologna, 2014, 157.
Articles in Conference Proceedings
1. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal and Yael Allweil, “Timely Teaching – fostering public and professional awareness and action,” Proceedings of the16th International DoCoMoMo Conference: Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Mobilities, Docomomo International / Docomomo Japan, 2021, 642-647.
2. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal and Ruth Verde Zein, “’A mass of tradition and association:’ reviving and reliving the buildings of Brutalism,” Proceedings of the 14th International Docomomo Conference: Adaptive Reuse – The Modern Movement Towards the Future, Docomomo International / Casa de Arquitectura, Lisbon, 2016.
3. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Not all that’s grey is ‘Brutalism’: Architectural concepts in planning Beer Sheba, 1950-1980,” Tichnun Annual Conference Proceedings 2015, 30 [Hebrew].
4. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Be’er-Sheva as an Architectural Laboratory,” Architecture and Landscape: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference, 14 [Hebrew].
5. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, and Naomi Meiri-Dann, "Looking Back and Looking Now: Thoughts on Architecture’s construction of History," Proceedings of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN) Annual Conference, Turin, Italy, 2014.
6. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, and Shlomit Tamari, “Mediating Modernism in Campus Architecture: Preservation and Revival in Israeli Universities”, in: (Revised) Proceedings of the 12th International Docomomo Conference: The Survival of Modern – From Coffee Cup to Plan, Docomomo.
Other Scientific Publications
1. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Nation Building through Campus Architecture: Israeli Architects Arieh Sharon and Eldar Sharon’s Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Campus in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1962–1976,” Bauhaus Imagenista, 2019. http://www.bauhaus-imaginista.org/articles/3797/nation-building-through-campus-architecture
Other Works
1. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Should the Ukranian Model be Adopted in Reconstructing Homes on the Gaza Border?”, Ynet, 25 December 2023. https://www.ynet.co.il/architecture/article/s19c111kvp
2. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “No More Karavillas: Israel should implement 21st century emergency architecture,” Spiralla (“Writing War” section), 20 December 2023. https://spirala.sapir.ac.il/34843/
3. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “A Pyramid named “ranger’s tent,” Ha’aretz, 24 April 2023 (digital and print edition).
4. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “Bet Hasofer: Historical Background and Architecture,” Essay for publicizing Ben-Gurion University’s establishment of a Scholars’ Guest House in an historic Mandatory residence in the Old Ottoman/British City of Be’er Sheva, Ben-Gurion University, 2018 [Hebrew].
5. Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal, “About what’s not concealed in the plans for the future Gush Dan Metro,” 19 July, 2016, D+A Magazine, http://www.urian.co.il/תרבות-וסגנון/על-מה-שלא-סמוי-מן-העין-ברכבת-הקלה-העתידי/ [Hebrew].
