Background
Sharon Rotbard was born in Tel Aviv.
Sharon Rotbard was born in Tel Aviv.
He studied fine arts between 1982 and 1984 at HaMidrasha art college with Rafi Lavi, Tamar Getter and Michal Na"aman. Between 1985 and 1991 he studied architecture in Paris at the École Spéciale d"Architecture with Bernard Tschumi, Jean Nouvel and Paul Virilio.
After returning to Israel in 1993, Rotbard worked until 1997 as a project architect at Yasky and partners, a leading Israeli architectural firm. Since 1998, he has directed the first architecture book series in Israel at Babel and published major architectural classic titles such as Le Corbusier"s Toward A New Architecture. In 2000 Rotbard launched the press" website, Israel"s first cultural Hebrew website, known today as readingmachine.
That same year, Rotbard and Babel moved to a concrete house he designed and built in Shapira neighborhood at the south of Tel Aviv.
Since 2004 Rotbard has been directing The Library of Babel, the fiction series of Babel, in which he has published translated titles by Georges Perec, Nadine Gordimer, Michel Houellebecq, Marie Ndiaye, Thomas Bernhard, Ramakrishna Narayan, Atiq Rahimi, Marek van der Jagt, Harry Mathews, as well as young Israeli authors. In 2008, Rotbard founded a new architectural practice collective, Babel architectures, which was selected as one of the teams of the Ordos 100 project in Inner Mongolia (China).