Slide Title
Preview

Date
3-1980
Description
Shown in this picture is the Bauhaus architecture of Tel Aviv. This was introduced to the city during the 1920s and 1930s by German architects who moved to Palestine after the Nazi generation expanded. Bauhaus is a German modernist style of architecture has several distinct characteristics including its use of ornamentation, asymmetry and looks at a building in terms of space instead of mass. They are also usually cubic and contain many right angles.
Creator 1 Role
Photographer
Building Style
Modernism
Subject Headings
City planning -- Israel -- Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv, Israel -- Buildings, structures, etc.; Housing -- Dwellings -- Israel -- Tel Aviv; Architecture, German -- Israel -- Tel Aviv; Architecture, Modern -- German -- 20th century;
Country Name
Israel
City Name
Tel Aviv
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chet, "Tel Aviv: Housing" (1980). Browse All. 635.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/635
Keywords
housing, Israel, Tel Aviv, dwellings, city planning
Notes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv#Architecture
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/Architecture/Bauhaus.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus