Rick Meghiddo – What I See From Here
Thanks to Rick Meghiddo giving us permission to post his video and photos.
The following video is an open-ended three-week visual diary (shot with an iPhone 6S Plus) of my come back to Israel after a fifteen-year absence. The 14-hour non-stop flight from LAX to TLV took a long time. In the meantime, I have changed, and so has Israel. In spite of many distortions by the media, in spite of Israel’s contradictions, inequalities and extremes, I found the country exceptionally better than when I left it, back in 2001. Its energy cannot be described neither visually nor in writing; it must be felt.
What I See From Here from Rick Meghiddo on Vimeo.
The territory covered in this lapse of time is very small. It includes only a fraction of Tel Aviv, and a two-day visit to the Technion in Haifa. I moved around using public transportation, highly efficient. My filmic choices have been twofold: people and spaces for people. There was so much visual richness that I wished I had a camera on my forehead, running all the time. I saw people of all ages, colors and countries of origin. A sense of informal freedom, seemingly anarchic, combined with high technology, turns this complex country into a huge laboratory from which the world has much to learn.
“Kesher,” by Ron Arad, TAU
Tel Aviv Cinematheque
Porter School of Environmental Studies
Condominium at Sarona
Winery at Sarona
University Train Station
I saw construction is going on everywhere. High-rise buildings are becoming commonplace, not only in Tel Aviv. During an “Architect’s Day Symposium” at the Cinematheque, the city’s director of planning told us than at his time there are in plan check residential and commercial projects for a total of almost eight million square meters, or about 86 million square feet. That is the equivalent of four hundred twenty-story high Wilshire corridor buildings.
Beyond snapshots at some buildings and artworks, I included in the video some friends, which help the viewer to get a more tangible sense of the country’s people. It is great to feel back at home!
Rick / Reuven Meghiddo is an architect and a filmmaker of architecture documentaries. As an architect he practiced in Israel, California and Italy. Born in Argentina, Rick studied at the Technion and married Ruth Meghiddo, also an architect, in Jerusalem. He has a Master of Architecture from UCLA and a Dottore in Architettura form the University of Rome. He is also a LEED Accredited Professional and is licensed as a Real Estate Broker in California. To date he has produced over thirty architecture documentaries.
As an architect he designed on a wide range of subjects, including housing, institutional, commercial, mixed-use development and urban design; as a filmmaker he has produced to date over thirty architecture documentaries, to raise the people’s awareness of the importance of architecture in bringing value into their lives.
More: architectureawareness.com meghiddoarchitects.com
External Links
- Architecture Awareness – Architecture video-blogs
- 2011 Selected Photos – Photography
- Architecture by Meghiddo – Selected Architecture
- Meghiddo Architects Website – Architecture Samples
- Rick Meghiddo – What I See From Here
