Odyssey of a Street

Odyssey of a Street

Architecture

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The Cardo book is a thriller intended for the lecture of students passionate about architecture, archaeology, and history that challenges and teaches. It is a provocation to confront riddles of town planning and history that lie in front of us, but one didn’t dare to “lift the glove’.

When an ancient game was discovered chiseled on one of the Cardo pavement stones, it was only the start of a whodunit. Only more archaeological diggings (11 pits on the 180-meter length of the street) brought up the solution three years later.

But why didn’t the archaeologists find any Roman remnants?

Here we direct the stage limelight on Justinianus, emperor of Byzantium, an ebullient personality and passionate builder.

The mistrust of the archaeologists in the vision of the architects dissipated, and it turned out to be a fruitful collaboration that went on for 12 years: a real odyssey of a discovery.

The book, which is richly illustrated and narrated by the leader of a team of architects that won the first prize in a national competition for the renewal of a part of the Jewish Quarter in 1971, teaches not only historical periods of the developments of Jerusalem through the ages but also touches on the architectural dilemmas of how to rebuild and integrate into part of the historical city of Jerusalem after the Six-Day War period.

Peter Bugod was born in Bucharest, Romania, and completed his first 2 years of architecture at the Ion Mincu Institute in Bucharest. He completed a BA in architecture and town planning at La Cambre E.N.S.A.A.V., Brussels, in 1966.Peter has worked in Paris/St. Cloud in the studio of Josic and then in Bruxelles/Genval in André Jacqmain’s studio.

In 1968, he was a town planner in the UA 5 town planners’ team for the planning of Louvain-la-Neuve, a new university town in Belgium. Later in 1970, Peter immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. From 1970 to 1975, he worked in the office of David Best and then of Shlomo Aronson.

The Bugod-Figueiredo studio for architecture, town planning, and environmental planning was established in Jerusalem in December 1975. The team is known for the preservation and restoration of historic monuments and the integration of modern structures.

Peter is the winner of many architectural competitions. In 1971, he won the 1st prize in the Cardo competition for the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, together with partner Esther Niv-Krendel. Other projects of the Bugod-Figueiredo team were the additional wings of the monasteries in Abou Gosh, Ein Karem, and Nes-Ammim; the conservation of historic monuments in Beit Shean; the restored buildings of the campus of the new Municipality of Jerusalem; and many other civil and private buildings.