Born in Tel Aviv, she has lived in London since 1990 where she is the director of Yael Reisner Studio, Architecture and Design. She currently teaches internationally (Sci Arc in LA, Lund Univ. in Sweden and at the AA in London) after nine years of teaching at the Bartlett (UCL) where she was the M.Arch course coordinator and a group tutor, as well as a Unit master of Diploma Unit 11. She taught for six years at Greenwich University, School of Architecture and Landscape Design, as a senior lecturer, 1st year coordinator and unit tutor.
Her book with Fleur Watson 'Architecture and Beauty, Conversations with Architects about A Troubled Relationship' was published in April 2010 by Wiley UK, and was the trigger for six symposiums since then, most of them with many participants where Reisner was often the moderator.
Amongst her writings Reisner has contributed to the AD Magazine issue on Exuberance (March 2010) and to AR Magazine's VIEW section (Sep. 2010).
Reisner is involved in designing projects mostly on a domestic scale in Tel Aviv and London; her latest work was an extension and re-designing a family house in Golders Green, London.
She was commissioned to act as an art director of a new line of porcelain lightscapes, with the first collection planned to be launched in May 2012.
Since November 2010, Reisner has collaborated with the British artist Dee Ferris. They started by designing an entry for the competition 'A Room for London' (announced by Living Architecture) and recently continued working together towards an installation as an exhibition.
Lately, Reisner has also embarked on a new collaborative research project with a group of scientists - from the disciplines of Chemistry, Botany, Biotechnology and Neurology, extending her architectural pursuit of Beauty to a much broader agenda, encompassing further complementary relationships between Nature and Culture, taking on board a new approach - conceptually, philosophically and artistically - towards a sustainable architecture.
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