DERMAN VERBAKEL ARCHITECTURE is an architecture, landscape and urban design firm based in Tel Aviv. Our work ranges from urban design, landscape architecture and public projects to housing and interior design , with projects in the US, Europe and the Middle East.
Recent work includes the public space design “On the Way to the Sea” for the city of Bat-Yam, which was published internationally in leading architecture magazines such as Architect (US), De Architect (Netherlands), Metropolis (US), Concept (Korea), Dezeen, Archdaily and others. Other recently completed projects are “Parking/Garden,” a public space design on Bat-Yam’s beach promenade, the new offices of the Belgian Embassy in Tel Aviv, an urban vision and public space design for the municipality of Harelbeke and a masterplan for the municipality of Kontich in Belgium. In 2008, Derman Verbakel completed the masterplan for the municipality of Bonheiden in Belgium, a winning competition entry which was published internationally in magazines such as AD Magazine (UK), A+ (Belgium), Lotus (Italy) and Architettura Naturale (Italy).
DERMAN VERBAKEL ARCHITECTURE was founded in New York in 2001 by architects Els Verbakel and Elie Derman, after completing the winning entry “Backyard Cities” for the international design competition Europan 6. In the same year we were among the recipients of the Venezuela National Architecture Award for a disaster relief proposal in the state of Vargas. Our work has been exhibited at the Architecture Biennial of Venezuela, Caracas (2001), the Rotterdam International Architecture Biennial (2007), the European Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona (2009) and the Bat-Yam International Biennial for Landscape Urbanism (2008 and 2010). In 2010, the leading Israeli magazine “HaCalcalist” recognized our office as one of six emerging architecture practices in Israel.
DERMAN VERBAKEL ARCHITECTURE is committed to providing the highest professional standards placing availability and continuity as the first priority in a one-to-one relationship with our clients. Every single project receives our maximum personal attention in which understanding program requirements, project demands and site parameters together with the client form an important point of departure. Our approach is based on providing flexible design tools allowing for clients to be part of the design process and to control project budgets.ields of architecture, urban design and landscape architecture.