Nili Portugali (Architect A.A. Dip R.I.B.A) is a a lecturer at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology Architecture Department, Haifa (until 2006 at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Architectural Department, Jerusalem), and a practicing architect working in Israel for more than 30 years. Her work has focused both on both practice and theory, and is tightly connected to the holistic phenomenological school of thought. She is a a graduate of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (A.A.), London (Dip 1973). She did postgraduate studies in Architecture and Buddhism at the University of California in Berkeley, and worked and participated in research with Prof. Christopher Alexander at the Center for Environmental Structure in Berkeley.
