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Dr. Eran Ben-Joseph is a member of the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research and teaching interests include urban and physical design, standards and regulations, site planning technologies and urban simulation. He published numerous articles, monographs, book chapters and co-authored the book Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities published by Island Press in 2003, the anthology Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America by Rutledge 2005, and the Code of the City by MIT Press, 2005. Eran worked as a landscape architect and urban planner in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States on projects including new towns and residential developments, streetscapes, stream restorations, and parks and recreation planning. He is the founding principal of BNBJ a planning firm in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and E. Ben-Joseph Consultants of Acton, Ma. He previously taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and has led national and international multi-disciplinary projects in Singapore, Barcelona, Santiago, and Washington DC among other places. Eran is the recipient of the Wade Award for his work on Representation of Places – a collaboration project with MIT Media Lab, and MIT Graduate Teaching Award—for excellence in teaching. He holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Chiba National University of Japan. |
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Education: University of California at Berkeley Ph.D. 1995 Environmental Planning & Urban Design National University of Japan, Chiba MA 1986 Landscape Architecture University of California at Berkeley BA 1982 Landscape Architecture Positions: Chair, PhD Program in Urban Planning 2005 - Present. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Associate Professor 2004- Department of Urban Studies and Planning, School of Architecture & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Hayes Career Development Assistant Professor 2000- 2003 Department of Urban Studies and Planning,, School of Architecture & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Assistant Professor 1999-2000 Department of Urban Studies and Planning,, School of Architecture & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Assistant Professor 1995-1998 Department of Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture & Urban Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Researcher Associate 1992-94 Institute of Transportation Studies and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California at Berkeley. Instructor 1992-94 Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California at Berkeley. Principal 1987– 2002 BNBJ (Blank & Ben Joseph) Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, Israel. Visiting Lecturer 1990-91 Department of Landscape Architecture, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology. Landscape Architect 1985-87 Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates, Tokyo, Japan. Project Manager 1982-85 Sarig Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Israel. |
