Yael Reisner, architect - practitioner, researcher, educator and writer - born in Tel Aviv, living in London since 1990, is director of Yael Reisner Studio; a research-led practice. She has a Bsc in Biology, (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), 1976, AA Diploma, (London),1987, and PhD from RMIT University, (Melbourne), 2009. Reisner is a registered architect in Israel, and built nine residential projects between 1988 and 2000. Since 2010 her research-led practice is engaged with architectural installations. The outdoor installation, Take My Hand, was built in 2014, in Placa de la Merce, Barcelona, designed and managed by Yael Reisner Studio, produced by Enric Miralles Foundation. It highlighted the role of human rights in democratic societies, celebrating the unfamiliar yet, new universal logo of human rights. The indoor installation, In The Mirror, in collaboration with Barnaby Gunning Architects, was built in 2015 at Taikoo Li Sanlitun, Beijing, part of the art exhibition - Tomorrows’ Party. LED screens, extended by numerous mirror textile panels, created a space infused with projections, reflections, sound and color, enhanced by the un-synchronized triple screening of a music video. Bologna Shoah Memorial, Competition entry, 2015, in collaboration with Abel Maciel, architect / computer engineer, Nick Cramp from Max Fordham, and Ori Gersht, fine art photographer. Two large metal sheets created the formal and spatial choreography for the display of large frescos - transformed from two works of epic-photography - digitally embossed, pigmented, and perforated, highlighted by natural light. Since 2005, following nine years at the Bartlett (UCL) where Reisner was the M.Arch course coordinator and design tutor, as well as a Unit master of Diploma Unit 11, she has been teaching architecture internationally - design and theory - at Sci Arc in LA, Lund Univ. in Sweden, at the AA in London, ESA in Paris, and at the Confluence institute of Architecture in Lyon. In 2017, was guest professor at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, Peter Behrens School of the Arts / Architecture. In 2017-18, is a PhD external examiner at the EU branch of RMIT University, Melbourne, based in Barcelona. Reisner’s book - Architecture and Beauty, Conversations with Architects about A Troubled Relationship, written with Fleur Watson, published by Wiley UK, 2010. (Translated to Chinese, by Wiley and Phei, Beijing, 2014.) A reflection on the prevalent paradoxical cultural suppression of the pursuit of beauty in architectural design, traced through conversations with sixteen influential architects, of different generations. The November 2019 issue of the Architectural Design magazine, Wiley, of which Reisner will be the guest-editor, is entitled: Beauty Matters: human judgment and the pursuit of new beauties in post-digital architecture. It was galvanized by new findings in Neuroscience and Mathematics, regarding the experience of beauty. Articles by selected architects will highlight the search for new beauties in our augmented age and post-digital architecture. See more at www.yaelreisner.com