Lila
Chitayat
Lila Chitayat is an architect, new media artist, and experimental practitioner of design. She is a research-based educator of multidisciplinary design processes and experience design.
In 2002, Chitayat founded LinC studio, a transdisciplinary design studio that utilizes new technologies, materials, and computational patterns to produce a wide range of projects and scales, including urban art installations, curation, art exhibition design, and architectural space design. LinC Studio is a collaborative environment that blends a vast array of professions as media installations and spaces with complex content, transforming information and stories into interactive experiences.
Chitayat has created pavilions, urban installations and virtual works, with projects that include: Mirrored Cities, the Temporary Forest Installation, Tokyo Pavilion, Jerusalem Pavilion, My Ideal City, and Taxilink, which was the winner of the prestigious ARS Electronica Festival prize.
Chitayat’s recent projects include architectural design of the Impressionist Exhibition, Giacometti Exhibition, and Miniature Room Exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum, architectural design at Yad Vashem, Massuah, the Haifa Museum, Bible Lands Museum, Ashdod Museum, Holon Design Museum, Israel Museum, Ghetto Fighter’s House Museum, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem, and the MUSA Museum. She has also designed and curated international exhibitions, including Il-Machine at the Ars Electronica Campus, “Art/ Technology/Science” exhibition at Arata Museum in St. Petersburg/ Kiev/ Berlin.
Chitayat is a full-time senior lecturer in the Design faculty of the Holon Institute of Technology, where she teaches courses on multidisciplinary studies, space installations, and speculative design. She has served as a visiting professor at the Shenkar School of Design, the Innovation Lab at ITP – NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and the Technischen Universität Berlin.
Chitayat holds a master’s in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, a B.Arch from the Pratt Institute, NY, and a B.Des from Holon Institute of Technology.
I am a designer, artist, and architect working with art and experiences. My work wanders between disciplines and scales. I see life as an artistic director of cultural moments, laying the groundwork for place-making and interactive experiences. My projects seek to create a participatory platform to redefine relationships between space, human interactions, and stories. I examine the use of sound, materials, technology, and light as new means of communication, exploring immersive spaces as places to connect remote communities with different cultural backgrounds. My work includes pavilions, urban installations, and virtual creations.
Lila Chitayat is an architect, new media artist, and experimental practitioner of design. She is a research-based educator of multidisciplinary design processes and experience design.
In 2002, Chitayat founded LinC studio, a transdisciplinary design studio that utilizes new technologies, materials, and computational patterns to produce a wide range of projects and scales, including urban art installations, curation, art exhibition design, and architectural space design. LinC Studio is a collaborative environment that blends a vast array of professions as media installations and spaces with complex content, transforming information and stories into interactive experiences.
Chitayat has created pavilions, urban installations and virtual works, with projects that include: Mirrored Cities, the Temporary Forest Installation, Tokyo Pavilion, Jerusalem Pavilion, My Ideal City, and Taxilink, which was the winner of the prestigious ARS Electronica Festival prize.
Chitayat’s recent projects include architectural design of the Impressionist Exhibition, Giacometti Exhibition, and Miniature Room Exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum, architectural design at Yad Vashem, Massuah, the Haifa Museum, Bible Lands Museum, Ashdod Museum, Holon Design Museum, Israel Museum, Ghetto Fighter’s House Museum, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem, and the MUSA Museum. She has also designed and curated international exhibitions, including Il-Machine at the Ars Electronica Campus, “Art/ Technology/Science” exhibition at Arata Museum in St. Petersburg/ Kiev/ Berlin.
Chitayat is a full-time senior lecturer in the Design faculty of the Holon Institute of Technology, where she teaches courses on multidisciplinary studies, space installations, and speculative design. She has served as a visiting professor at the Shenkar School of Design, the Innovation Lab at ITP – NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and the Technischen Universität Berlin.
Chitayat holds a master’s in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, a B.Arch from the Pratt Institute, NY, and a B.Des from Holon Institute of Technology.