The Elements of the City was developed around a structural conceit: pair five young illustrators with five well-known architects, and ask each pair to take on one of the five elements that Kevin Lynch identified in his foundational 1960 book "The Image of the City" - paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks.

The matchmaking was the curatorial work. Each pairing forced a conversation between two different visual cultures - the architect's plan and section, the illustrator's looser narrative line - and what emerged in each case was something neither could have produced alone. The exhibition's argument was implicit but clear: that the city is best read in more than one language at a time.

Participating architects included Ilan Pivko, Pitsou Kedem, Amnon Rechter, Michael Kimmel Eshkolot, and Tula Amir. Participating illustrators included Tomer Hanuka, Ovadia Benishu, Yali Ziv, Alon Braier, and Liat Yaniv. The exhibition was the first major show of the gallery's long-running collaboration model and was reviewed at length in Haaretz.