This book exhibits a collection of projects designed by the renown Israeli architecture studio, Chyutin Architects, during the period of 1980-2010. The studio was founded by Bracha Chyutin and Michael Chyutin in 1978. It specializes in the architectural design of public buildings, residential spaces, interior design and urban planning. Chyutin Architects has won many open national competitions for public buildings including the Court of Justice in Haifa (1994); Mane Katz Museum in Haifa (2000); Court of Justice in Jerusalem (2007); and Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem (2010) . It is responsible for the Master plans of several academic campuses including the Van-Leer Institute in Jerusalem (2008), and the new campus for the University of Ben Gurion at Beer Sheva (2013), both winning competitions. The studio has won several competitions for academic buildings including the Senate Building in Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva (1994); The Tel-Aviv College (1969); Student House in Haifa University (2002); Polonsky Academy in Jerusalem (2010) and others. In recognition of its architectural achievements, the studio has been awarded the Israeli Architects’ Association Award (1993); The 'Ot-Hitzuv' Award (2005; 2009; 2011); the AIA Academy of Architecture for Justice (AAJ) (2008); the Rechter Award (1996;2006); Dezeen's top ten: Parks and Gardens (2011), and the Architizer A+ Award for the Higher Education Institutions & Research Facilities category (2013). The firm's Designs have been displayed in numerous national and international architectural exhibitions and have been published in the daily press, professional journals and books throughout the world. Bracha Chyutin and Michael Chyutin have also been engaged in academic activity in most of Israel ’s universities. They have published a great number of papers and studies about architecture and urban planning. They have co-authored various books: Architecture and Utopia-The Israeli Experiment (Asghat 2007), Architecture for Justice ( Tel Aviv Museum 2006 ), and Architecture of Ben Gurion University 1990-2006 (BGU Press 2008).

The first comprehensive academic study of the architectural planning of the kibbutzim and the moshavim, the utopian agricultural settlements that were created in Eretz-Israel during the 20th century. The book discusses the connection between the ideology and the architecture of these settlements in the broad historical context of the orientations intent on creating utopian societies and planning ideal settlements to house them. It presents the ideas on the architectural planning of ideal settlements that appear in the writings of social visionaries such as the prophet Ezekiel, Plato, Fourier, Owen, Marx and Engels, and of architects such as Vitruvius, Ledoux and Le Corbusier, and examines the extent of their creative imagination and their influence on the ways of thinking of the fathers of Zionist settlement such as Tabenkin and Eliezer Yaffe and architects of the kibbutzim and the moshavim, such as Kauffmann, Sharon and Bickels. The book presents an analysis of the spatial layouts of settlement models as related to the various social ideological movements that existed in Eretz-Israel. It surveys the development of these settlement models in light of the extreme political, economic and technological changes that took place in the world and in Israel in the course of the century, and examines the influences of the changes in the ideology on the changes in the spatial layouts of the settlements. The authors, Bracha and Michael Chyutin, are leading Israeli architects who have won numerous architectural competitions. They have been responsible for the construction of a number of iconic public buildings, among them the Court of Law Building in Haifa, the Givatayim Theater, and university buildings such as the Senate Building at Beer Sheva University and the Students Center at Haifa University. They have been awarded prestigious prizes, among them the Rechter Prize (twice) and the Israel Design Award (twice), for buildings they have planned.