Dr. Noam Shoked

Noam Shoked is a scholar of the built environment. His work explores the relationship between politics and everyday spaces, with a particular focus on Israel and other sites of Jewish life. His book, In the Land of the Patriarchs: Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements (University of Texas Press, 2023), received the 2024 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Association of American Publishers, as well as the 2024 On the Brinck Book Award from the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning. He is currently writing a book about the design and evolution of ultra-Orthodox Jewish enclaves in Israel and the United States. 

Before joining the faculty at Tel Aviv University, Shoked was a Princeton-Mellon Fellow at Princeton University, and a senior lecturer at the California College of the Arts.

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Master of Architecture II, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Master of Architectural History, McGill University

Shoked, Noam. In the Land of the Patriarchs: Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023.

Shoked, Noam. “Israel - Planning and Urbanism.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Ed. Kevin Murphy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.

Shoked, Noam. “On Matchboxes and Villas: New Bedouin Houses in the Negev Desert,” Buildings & Landscapes 32:1 (Spring 2025): 85-106.

Shoked, Noam. “The Jewish Shepherd who Wanted to Cultivate Islamic Architecture.” In Radical Pedagogies, edited by Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris, and Anna-Maria Meister. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2022.

Shoked, Noam, “Urban Forms in the Occupied West Bank.” Platform (May 2021).

Shoked, Noam. “‘This is the Hour’: When Architects Protest.” Platform (April, 2021).

              Reprinted in Ankara Branch of the Chamber of Architects’ Journal 50 (January 2022): 71-75 [in Turkish].

Shoked, Noam. “Design and Contestation in the Jewish Settlement of Hebron, 1967-1987.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 79, no.1 (March 2020): 82-102.

Shoked, Noam. “Housing Others: Design and Identity in a Bedouin Village.” International Journal of Islamic Architecture 8, no. 2 (July 2019): 307–35.

              Reprinted in Farhan Karim and Patricia Blessing, eds., The Making of Modern Muslim Selves through Architecture (Bristol: Intellect,     

             2024).

Shoked, Noam. “Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements.” In Social Housing in the Middle East: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Modernity, edited by Kıvanç Kılınç and Mohammad Gharipour, 241–66. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2019.

Shoked, Noam. “Hanging Out with Cyclists.” Boom: A Journal of California 6, no. 3 (September 2016): 84-88.

Book Reviews:

Review of A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg by Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper, Buildings & Landscapes 32:1 (Spring 2025): 112-3.

Review of Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958–1973 by Ayala Levin, International Journal of Islamic Architecture 13, no.2, (April 2024): 472-474.

Review of Israel as a Modern Architectural Experimental Lab, 1948-1978 by Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler and Anat Geva, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 80, no.3, (September 2021): 366-7.

Review of Homeland: Zionism as a Housing Regime, 1860-2011 by Yael Allweil, Buildings & Landscapes 25, no. 1 (Spring 2018), 100-2.