Shlomo Aronson

Shlomo Aronson (born November 27, 1936) (Hebrew: שלמה אהרונסון) is an Israeli landscape architect. His works range from master plans for reforestation, archaeological parks and freeway planting schemes to urban plazas.

Shlomo Aronson was born in Haifa, Israel. Aronson moved to the United States to study landscape architecture as an undergraduate student and received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. He went on to study at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he received his Master of Landscape Architecture in 1966. Aronson lives and works in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem.

Aronson taught at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, Department of Architecture 1979 - 1985, 1992; Harvard Graduate School of Design, Urban Design Department, Guest Critic, Spring 1981, Spring 1982, Fall 1997; Harvard Graduate School of Design, Landscape Architecture Department, Visiting Professor, Fall 1985, Spring 1988, Fall 1997; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Institute of Urban and Regional Studies, 2000-2001. He has been a guest lecturer at various American, Canadian, Italian, German, Indian, Russian and South African universities.

Prior to receiving his master's degree, Aronson worked in Lawrence Halprin’s office in San Francisco, California from 1963-1965. The field of landscape architecture was developing at this time to include large scale projects that incorporated transportation and community planning. In his foreword to “Making Peace with the Land,” Halprin recognized Aronson’s desire to work on larger scale projects and his interest in their “social context and the impact they world have on society.” Aronson was part of The Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1966 and The Greater London Council, Architecture Department from 1966-67. Aronson joined the Jerusalem City Engineer’s Department in 1968. In 1969, Aronson become the owner and director of Shlomo Aronson and Associates, a multi-disciplinary office that includes landscape architects, architects, and urban planners in Jerusalem. Aronson was also the Chairman of the Israel Associates of Landscape Architects from 1991 to 1998.

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