Israeli-American architect Eran Chen

By Tina Renick

Published February 2, 2024 at 10:45 PM EST

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Susan Packard

Israeli-American architect Eran Chen likes buildings, of course, but it’s the spaces between buildings that he loves. “It’s a blur between public and private, it’s a stage, it’s sort of an in-between territory, a threshold to the city, a place of in-between.”

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