Eliyahu Keller is an architect, architectural historian, and educator. He is an assistant professor in the history and theory of architecture at the Technion IIT - Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. He is also a founding faculty member of the Negev School of Architecture in Israel. Eliyahu holds a Ph.D. in History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture from the MIT Department of Architecture, an MDes. (History and Philosophy of Design) with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a B.Arch from Ariel University. His doctoral thesis, which he is currently developing into a manuscript, explores speculative architectural visions produced in the United States during the Cold War. 

 

Eliyahu has organized and taught several design-research workshops at  at MIT Architecture, and has lectured and served as an invited critic in various institutions such as Pratt Institute, the Rhode Island School of Design, Boston Architectural College, Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Harvard University and MIT. He is the recipient of several grants and awards such as the 2016 Dimitris Pikionis Award from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Travelling Grant, the MIT Presidential Fellowship, a Getty Foundation Research Grant, and a CCA Doctoral Research Residency. He is the co-editor of the 46th volume of the MIT Architecture's departmental, peer-reviewed journal Thresholds, published in March 2018 by the MIT Press, and his writings have been published in various journals including the Journal of Architectural Education, Thresholds, PLAT, Journal of Architecture and others.