About this episode
Current Time.My father is super talented, and I’m not just saying that because he’s my father. He was born with a natural gift for drawing and painting and, throughout life, acquired many more skills. He isn’t the only one. The art talents flow in the veins of the Portal family from Marrakech, but he was the only one in his family who took this talent to university and studied architecture.I have many more stories to tell about my family. You’ve already met my father through the architecture series. Soon, he will join me again for a new series about Israel’s first decade, when the government faced the challenge of housing a million immigrants who arrived in Israel with nothing but their clothes.My dad is a fountain of stories, and he will join me more often in the coming series of stories and hopefully will be a regular participant in my show. Moreover, soon you will also meet my mother as she will join my stories too.This podcast episode is a recap of the series of stories I wrote with my father about architecture in Eretz Israel, during the British Mandate. It’s impressive that Mark and Samantha noticed that both my father and I are graduates of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, similar to MIT or CalTech. Although we graduated from different faculties, my father studied architecture, and I studied industrial management and engineering. Both of us have a natural talent for the arts, but we chose to study in engineering school, which gave us strong scientific foundations.Architects design and create buildings, while industrial management engineers design processes and create businesses. In both cases, we are not the founders or owners of the building or the business, but both professions play essential roles in the economy and contribute to its growth.Magically, we connect in a complementary way, which allows us to navigate this journey faster, more efficiently, and, more than anything else, amusing and surprising. This gives us leverage in shifting between timelines and allows us to move faster when building everything from scratch.To read the series of stories with my father, click the links:* A Journey from the Ma’abara to Architecture* From Chaos to Civilization: How the British Empire Transformed the Middle East* The Future Generation: Boomers with Plenty of Free Time, Still Figuring Out Smartphones and Urban Development* The Story of Bauhaus:
