SC_YO is a design practice founded by Sharona Cramer (SC) and Yotam Oron (YO)
Sharona Cramer
is an architect, researcher, and educator based in New York and Tel Aviv.
She holds a post-professional Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture, where her joint thesis received the Independent Design Research Award. She earned her B.Arch with honors from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, graduating first in her class and receiving the 2020 Azrieli Foundation Prize for her thesis Dead Space.
She previously worked at leading architecture firms in Tel Aviv (StudioPEZ, Bar Orian, HQA) where she led projects of various scales—most notably the winning proposal for the Mikve Israel school campus at StudioPEZ.
From 2021 to 2023, Sharona was a founding team member and studio tutor at the Negev School of Architecture. She has taught design studios and seminars at Yale School of Architecture and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
Yotam Oron
is an architect, researcher, and urbanist based in New York and Tel Aviv.
He holds a post-professional Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture, where his joint thesis received the Independent Design Research Award. During his time at Yale, he also served as a Teaching Fellow in the Urban Lab.
Yotam earned his B.Arch with honors from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, receiving both the Azrieli Foundation Prize for his thesis Dead Space and the Joseph Vaada Bolafio Prize for excellence in architectural history and theory.
He has led projects across various stages and scales at architecture firms in Tel Aviv (Weinstein Vaadia, Bar Orian, HQA). His work also extends into architectural research, including collaborations with Prof. Michael Turner (UNESCO). Yotam has taught in advanced design studios at Bezalel Academy and continues to engage in practice and research around housing affordability, land ownership and alternative development models.
SC YO
works across architecture and urbanism as platforms for spatial justice. Rooted in open-ended and flexible design, their work spans interiors, housing, urban planning, research, and speculative projects.
