Julius was Pablo Katz’s first collaborator after working in a dozen architectural practices in Israel and France. As project manager and technical referent for the office, he was responsible for several of its most important projects.
A graduate of the Bezalel School of Architecture in Jerusalem (B. Arch, 2000), Julius pursued his studies in France. In 2004, he obtained his DEA (Master’s) degree from ENSA Paris-Belleville. In 2009, he defended his doctoral thesis in architecture (PHD) with honours and unanimous congratulations from the jury, under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Louis Cohen. In his doctoral research, Julius re-examined early Zionist projects in Jerusalem at the intersection of utopian thinking and early ideologies of nationalism. Interdisciplinary in nature, his investigation focuses more broadly on colonial architecture, the semiology of architecture, the intellectual history of Zionism and the relationship between state and municipal powers.
Julius is a recipient of several academic awards including the 2nd prize of architecture students’ competition at the International Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture (2000, jury: Daniel Liebeskind, Charles Jencks, Bernard Tschumi).
