Dorit Shahar
Dorit Shahar is an Israeli-born landscape architect who earned her degree from the School of Architecture and Environmental Studies at the City College of New York. She maintains offices in East Hampton, New York, and Tel Aviv, Israel, and is an adjunct professor at the Technion in Haifa, Israel. For Shahar, landscape architecture is a social art and an avenue for exploring how creative place-making can have a positive effect on enhancing community identity. She has designed projects in the United States, Japan, Qatar, Egypt, and many throughout Israel. Her notable works include the landscape design for the main valley of the City of Modiin (designed by architect Moshe Safdie); the courtyard at Biet Hachayal in Tel Aviv, created for the soldiers; the master plan for the Salam Plaza Development, a mixed-use complex including retail, residential, office space, as well as a hotel, in Qatar; the redevelopment of the entire downtown campus of Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York City; and numerous residential commissions in East Hampton and Bridgehampton, New York.
Ms. Shahar’s courses at the Technion focus on urbanism and the design of public spaces, community place-making, and ecotourism. She is a member of the Israeli Society of Landscape Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects. She is married to landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg, with whom she has a daughter, Maya.