Haim Dotan is a pioneer architect who modernizes the architectural construction field in Israel with innovations and new directions using steel and light weight materials and methods of building.

While working as a construction worker in the USA, he graduated from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles with B.Arch. and M.Arch. degrees in 1984. After working in Tokyo, Sidney and Manhattan he established his architectural firm in 1990 in Tel Aviv.

His company, Haim Dotan Ltd, has won numerous architectural competitions and merit prizes including the Architects and Engineers Association Award for the 50th Anniversary of the State of Israel for the professional contribution to the “Total design conceptualization of office and industrial buildings” in 1998 and the Israel Contractors & Builders Union award in 2000. His designs are published extensively in Israel including a complete issue of “Architecture in Israel” magazine dedicated to his works in 1997.

Haim Dotan Ltd produces buildings based on highly industrialized designs and systems. In 13 years the firm designed more than a million m² of public buildings, institutions, office, commercial, residential and industrial projects. Among the designs are the high-tech office tower in Tel Aviv for Bezek, the Israeli Telecommunication Company, MTVS high-tech office building in Tel Aviv, the Ashdod City and Rehovot City municipal concert/theatre halls, the campus and buildings of the Negev Academic College of Engineering, the faculty of computer and communication building in Ben Gurion University and over 1000 residential units. The firm collaborates with international companies on projects in Israel and overseas and puts emphasis on accurate building details, construction costs and time tables and economical analysis of design alternatives and systems.

Haim Dotan is a senior architectural lecturer in Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts in Jerusalem and a former lecturer at the School of Architecture in the University of Tel Aviv.  He serves as a public Director of the Jaffa Redevelopment Agency, since 1997.

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