This is how it all started
Architect Amnon Niv, former Jerusalem city engineer and engineer Avi Sperber, former deputy Jerusalem city engineer and former manager of the Jerusalem Transportation Master Plan Team, founded and established in the late 1980s the company Amav Yezum Planning and Engineering Ltd.
The company, which served the private and public sectors in Israel, was involved in project planning and entrepreneurships, architectural design, road, traffic and transportation planning.
Several years later, with the aim of expanding the field of architectural planning and urban design, architect Amnon Schwartz joined the company.
That is how Amav Planning Ltd. was founded, under the management of architects Amnon Niv and Amnon Schwartz.
In order to expand the company’s involvement in the planning of road and transportation infrastructure , Marc Render, a city planner by profession, joined the company, and in 1991, Amav Transportation was established with Avi Sperber and Marc Render as managing partners.
Amnon Niv
Architect and Urban planning
Former chief city engineer of the city of Jerusalem, who left his mark on the building and design of the city. Served as chief architect of the nuclear research facility in the Negev. Among other projects, he designed in collaboration with architect Amnon Schwartz, are the Moshe Aviv Tower, once the tallest tower in Israel. Winner of the prestigious Israel Rokach Award for Architecture as well as other prizes such as the Emblem of Excellence, Yad Meir and Ziona Dizengoff and the Israel Consumers Union award.
After his death in June 2011, the public square at the intersection of Menachem Begin and Bezalel streets in Ramat Gan was named after him.
The sign reads “Amnon Niv Square, one of Israel’s top architects and planner of the core of the Stock Exchange area 1930-2011”
Amnon Schwartz
Architect and Urban planning
Graduated from the Technion, Faculty of Architecture and City Building.
Starting in 1971, he was the partner of architect Amnon Niv and together they designed many towers for various uses in the Tel Aviv region.
Winner of the Rechter Award for Architecture for the design of the “Ma’alot Dafna” neighborhood in Jerusalem and the Rokach Award for Architecture for the design of the “Beit Gidi” -Ha’etzel Museum, in Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Amnon Schwartz is currently a partner in the firm Miloslavsky Architects.
Avi Sperber
civil engineer
A graduate of the Technion and Northwestern University in the USA in transportation engineering. My father was the deputy engineer of the city of Jerusalem and manager of a master plan team for transportation in Jerusalem during the development period of the city of Jerusalem and its unification.
Among his other public positions, my father was one of the heads of the planning team of the Ayalon routes company and he has extensive experience in large and significant projects in the field of transportation in Israel.
Avi is a creative and capable engineer in combining interdisciplinary teams for the purpose of providing unique and special solutions.
Marc Render
Urban Design
Graduated in Urban and Spatial Planning from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, Outstanding Student Award from the American Association of City Planners (A.I.C.P).
With over 30 years of experience in the field and a comprehensive background of city planning.
Marc was the deputy manager of the master plan team for transportation in Jerusalem and in 1990 he joined Avi Sperber as a partner in Amav Transportation.
Marc has been involved in transportation and public transportation planning for many years and has extensive experience whose considerable contribution is evident in the preparation of plans for sustainable planning that combines private, public and soft movements in the field of public space in Israel. Thanks to the firm’s extensive knowledge of sustainable planning, the firm won a call for sustainable transportation development for the city of Ashdod published by the Ministry of Transportation.
