When I started studying architecture and interior design in 1994, I was looking for a way to plan effectively. I was constantly searching for rules, systems, and procedures that would enable me to achieve the best result. Throughout my studies, I was always searching for this, and at some point, I was frustrated by the lack of direction. When I couldn't find answers from my instructors, I tried to invent my own steps, rules, or language to plan with. However, I kept diverting my thoughts and starting over. I knew that if I found the right way to plan, it would be easier for me to succeed and function within my profession. The technical subjects in my studies, such as architecture and engineering, were easy for me, as I was a child who tinkered with a hammer, nails, and plier. This creative difficulty in planning versus the technical ease of understanding created a serious conflict for me

After finishing my practical architecture studies with honors at Tel Hai College, I traveled to the UK to study engineering. I was confident that I would find my way there, the right method. I thought to myself that I probably need to study civil engineering, to ensure the stability of a building regardless of how it looks from the outside or what it feels like inside. So, I went and studied for a Bachelor of Science in engineering. Needless to say, after the first semester, I realized that I had no interest in what's hidden inside the walls, no creative expression in structural planning for stability, no matter how big the building was. I turned off my creativity for two years and worked within the physical laws of the earth, mathematical formulas, and horizontal forces at heights and moment calculations in building cores. I knew I had to return to a place where I could integrate creativity with technology, art with design. So, I decided to apply to the architecture faculty at the Technion. Five long years later, after getting married and starting a family, I realized that what I was searching for initially was never found. No professor taught me how to plan, and nobody at this prestigious institution showed me the way, or so I thought. No architect or esteemed lecturer in the country, some of them even known globally, could explain to me clearly how to plan. My entire academic pathway was based on my intuition, and despite it being a fundamental flaw in my thinking at the time, I also completed my architecture studies with high achievements

At the graduation ceremony in February 2004, when I was called to receive my diploma, I was asked by the dean what the institution had succeeded in teaching me. I was silenced, dumbfounded. And in an instant that felt like eternity, I realized that his question had ignited in me a curiosity that I have carried with me ever since. I answered quietly, "I didn't learn anything except the ability to learn everything." I don't remember what he said, because for the next half hour, I heard nothing but the adrenaline rushing through my body… This institution gave me the tools to analyze any situation, to break down urban problems and to find a solution for any cause that would ultimately fix the problem. This is also the case with the planning of living structures on the smallest scale. This institution equipped me with the tools to face life

This institution fulfilled my lungs with the air of peaks and created within me a complete system of aspirations and dreams. This institution equipped me with a license to practice a profession that touches all areas of life. Today, after 10 years of academic studies in all that is related to architecture and engineering, and after an additional 20 years of professional practice in large planning offices over the country, I, as an independent architect, understood that the path I had passed is actually the goal I was seeking. Each stage on the way to the coveted degree stemmed from a search for a path, intuitively and unconsciously. The engineering school gave me technical tools to deal with all technical stages of the planning and execution process

Throughout my years of work, I have learned that there is no one way or specific rules that will always work in the planning process. I acknowledge and say that there shouldn't be a specific way or design guiding an architect, or a fingerprint. A real architect must create from a deep understanding of the environment, an understanding of the users' needs in the environment and structure. The architect must embed and store all of this information in his head and begin to create intuitively. From intuition that is infused in every condition of life and space, at all levels, and in every dimension. An architect needs to know and understand enough in all areas of life. An architect needs to surprise himself first with an original, unique thought. The architect needs to explain his intentions with clarity, present on paper the system of relationships between the parts of the structure, the composition. Today, I understand that the intensive search at the beginning of my journey arose from a lack of confidence in creativity. This desire to create a method or language or planning line came from a creative block, borders that people seek to create a more comfortable environment to express their professional behavior. Borders are excuses, obstacles. A perfect idea can only arise in a clear thought, clean of borders, clean of self-imposed limitations. It's free of preconceived ways and laws

I believe that we all have equal abilities, and it's the path we choose that determines which abilities are expressed and reveals the hidden talent within us. Following a certain field or area indicates our direction and desire for self-expression. It's perfect to turn the talent and ability that has been discovered and developed over time into a profession. Endless search creates interesting lives, and the desire to know and understand is a given energy. Don't hesitate to ask, persist to understand, and seek to know. The path we take in life is usually the goal, shaping you and your personality. "God is in the details," as architect Mies van der Rohe said at the beginning of the last century, meaning that small details create a complete and perfect picture. The goal is what you define, and the path is the small details that make it what you have become. Only after the journey I took – 30 years since the first step, 20 years since I received the official title of "architect" and due to the path I took, the questions I asked and the understandings I gained, only after pouring a lot of content and turning architecture into a way of life, only now can I allow myself to turn the title into "architect" and carry it with strength, professionalism, and pride