Ben Ori Gitai was born in Paris in 1985.In October 2007 he began studies at the Ecole Spéciale

d’Architecture in Paris, La Villette, and focused on social housing and design. In July 2012, he

obtained his Diploma of Architecte d‘état in the degree of HMNOP.Since 2015 Ben works in teaching and research at the Institute of Landscape Architecture

Chair of Christophe Girot at the ETH, Zürich. He has been working as research associate at

the Design Lab which is focussed on research into transforming methods of landscape

practice of architects. participation in various conferences, workshops and numerous

publications. Since 2017 he coordinates the Landscape Architecture theme of Master

thesis Projects. In 2017 he started is PhD on developing the field of Topo-politic in the

landscape department of architecture in conjunction with GTA the institute for History and

theory of architecture. In 2019 he started to teach his Transfomation of Landscapes

design studio in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Technion,Haifa