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The Bezalel Pavilion project is dedicated to the memory of Urbach, by colleagues and students at the Department of Architecture, where he taught during the last years of his life.
Raised in Flemington, New Jersey, Urbach studied history and theory of architecture at Princeton University and architectural design at Columbia University. He debuted his pioneering gallery Henry Urbach Architecture in 1997 at the Gramercy Art fair featuring an installation by LO/TEK who later designed his 26th street gallery. Henry Urbach Architecture forged a bridge between contemporary art and architecture that led to over 55 exhibitions, including being featured as an innovator at Art Basel Miami.
In 2006, Urbach joined SFMOMA as the Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design. His work as curator included an exhibition that examined the backstory of museum practice, and How Wine Became Modern, a collaboration with Diller, Scofidio + Renfro.
Urbach was proud to have written the first Interior Design essay while a contributing editor that “peeked” at gay interiors, breaking the taboo on pairing intimacy and design in architectural journalism.
In 2012, Urbach returned to the East Coast to direct The Phillip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he launched an ambitious series of interventions to reanimate the site, most memorably collaborating with Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya on Veil, a fog installation that periodically wrapped the iconic modern house in an ephemeral cloud of mist.
In 2015 Urbach moved to Tel Aviv, where he applied himself to teaching and curating at the Department of Architecture at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, with the same dedication that animated his finest projects. We will all remember Henry as the articulate, sweet, stylish, kind and beloved person he was.