Judy Green, B.A., Arch. Studies '74 Israel Institute of Technology, Technion University Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Landscape Architecture Department, Technion City, Haifa, 32000 Israel http://architecture.technion.ac.il judithdianegreen@yahoo.com 972-4-829-4009

In her own words:

The most important thing I learned in school was lateral thinking.

If I could go to school again, I’d be sure to really understand what sustainability in planning and design means.

The most satisfying thing about my current work is seeing my former students become teachers.

Right now, I’m working on a schoolyard and playground in the west bank, in memory of a young Palestinian girl killed in crossfire of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

My favorite project is . . . if you mean the favorite project I have designed: the Shereover promenade in Jerusalem…if you mean my favorite project period: James Turrell’s Roden Crater.

Words of wisdom: Never be afraid to say you don’t know.

About Judy Green:

Judy Green discovered her métier in landscape architecture almost by chance. After earning her M.Arch. at UC Berkeley she embarked on a bicycle tour of Europe, hoping to find an interesting place to work. When she didn't find a place where she wanted to stay, she took a ferry from Athens to Haifa, Israel, and immediately found a job in the office of Shlomo Aronson, one of Israel's leading landscape architects.  She has never looked back. "I just fell into place, and fell in love with the profession. The landscape architecture practice in Israel is very rich because of the archeological remains, and socially charged due to the conflict in the region," she said.

Embedded layers of history enrich Green's landscape designs. In Ophel Park (1986), for example, located just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, visitors encounter the steps of Solomon's temple, a religious college from the early Arab period and a Byzantine villa within steps of each other.

Green recently completed three years of Peace Corps service in Saranda, Albania. Among other projects, she worked with 24 villages to plan the route of an 80-mile-long coastal hiking trail blessed with rugged mountains, sunwashed villages and commanding views of the Mediterranean Sea. She currently chairs the landscape architecture department at Technion University in Haifa.