About

Ganit Mayslits Kassif founded Mayslits Kassif Architects together with Udi Kassif on 1994. She gained her Diploma in Architecture (with honors) from the University of Westminster in London on 1990 and following that led a Diploma Unit at the Bartlett School of Architecture for four years. As a Director of Mayslits Kassif she combines research with practice and fuses various disciplinary categories and scales including public buildings, landscape architecture, urban design, and strategic planning, all reflecting the firm’s belief that architecture is a leading agent of cultural and environmental transformation. Viewing the built environment as a field for research and innovation Ganit develops within her practice new tools and methodologies such as the MotherPlan and SuperNature City in order to actively cope with environmental and social challenges and grow inspiring, just and sustainable places. Along with the practice she instigated the public campaign for architecture policy in Israel and leads speculative research by design in the academic studios she conducts in order to creatively rethink common categories such as Human and More than Human, public and private, natural and artificial in order to develop new post anthropocentric perspectives of operation.

Udi (Ehud) Kassif started his academic studies in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Akademie der Bildenden Künste). In 1988 he finished with honors his studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, obtaining an B.Sc.B.Sc. in Architecture. In 1991 he graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (AA), gaining his AA Diploma. In 2017 he obtained his Master’s degree in Philosophy from the Tel Aviv University. During the past 25 years, alongside his partner Ganit Mayslits Kassif, he drove Mayslits Kassif Architects towards winning numerous major architectural competitions in a wide range of practice fields, including landscape design, residential architecture, public buildings and urban schemes. Currently he is developing new interdisciplinary strategies for some of the most prominent urban regeneration projects in Israel and is authoring a soon to be published book researching the topic of specificity. Coinciding with his work at the practice, Ehud is an academic lecturer and studio leader in The NB Haifa School of Design and lectures in various national and international academic conferences and workshops.

Maor Roytman studied in the Technion -Israel Institute of Technology, and as part of his studies participated in a student exchange program in which he studied for two semesters in the University of Sydney, Australia. He received his Architectural and Urban planning degree with distinction (Summa Cum Laude) in 2003. Maor has served as a studio instructor between the years 2007-2013 and as a guest lecturer to this day. Maor Roytman joined Mayslits Kassif architects in 2003 as a Design Architect, and became an Associate architect in 2008. In 2020 became a named partner in MKR- Mayslits Kassif Roytman Architects. Maor is designing and leading numerous projects ranging from commercial and public buildings to urban renewal and public space. Maor in his work gained an extensive experience in the field of beach fronts and promenades. His experience includes the development and planning of significant coasts and promenades in Israel and in the world, such as Tel Aviv promenade, Tel Aviv port, Eilat Masterplan, Shenshan waterfront and many more. His work is characterized by a particular experimental approach and by independent multidisciplinary research.