While architecture deals with the present and the future, archaeology delves into the past. When the two join forces, it can become an exciting venture. That is what happened recently on a hill in northern Israel.
Archaeology is one of the primary sources of urban planning.
While outlying architectural history, archaeologists need to have the ability for spatial thinking, and for understanding structures. Students of archaeology, unlike students of architecture, are not trained to meet such criteria. That is why there is often a field architect as a member of an archaeological team, especially in cases when more remarkable building remains are to be exposed. Aaro Soderlund and Osku Soderlund, a father and son team from Finland, were invited by Professor Shimon Dar, head of the Department of Land of Israel Studies at Bar Ilan University to serve as the architects on an excavation site on the Carmel Mountain Range near the city of Haifa. Architect Aaro Soderlund serves as teacher and researcher at the Helsinki University of Technology.