Yael Erel

Yael Erel is an architect, educator and light artist. She interweaves light optics research with academic teaching and practice. Erel is a registered architect in New York and Israel. Graduated with honors from The Cooper Union where she received the Irma Giustino Weiss Prize for creative achievement. As light became the focus of Erel’s work, she pursued her graduate studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to gain deep knowledge of light as material. Her current research studies systems of light sources and reflectors that construct spatial and temporal light-drawings. Her work has been published and exhibited at the miSci Museum, Albany Airport, Cornell University, MIT, RPI, The Krakow Biennial, Queens Theater in the Park, The Public Theater SPF, Pratt Institute and other NYC Galleries. For over a decade Erel has been deeply immersed in architectural education, teaching architecture at the Harvard GSD,The Cooper Union, Columbia University and Pratt Institute. She is currently at Rensselaer School of Architecture, teaching architecture as well as a seminar studying light and projection.