Photographer/Creator

Chet SmolskiFollow

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Date

3-1980

Description

This photograph shows Metzudat Ze’ev, an office building in Tel Aviv named for Vladimir Jabotinsky. Jabotinksy was a leader of the right-wing, anti-socialist movement within Zionism. Jabotinsky argued that the future of the Jewish state depended on the energy and resourcefulness of the people in areas of manufacturing.

The building houses, among businesses, the Likud party’s staff, the Jabotinsky Museum and the Jabotinsky Institute. The building was planned in the 1930s but was not completed until 1963. It is designed in the Brutalist architectural style.

Also seen in this photograph is Tel Aviv City Hall, designed by Menahem Cohen, winner of a 1957 design competition for the building.

Notes

Hatuka, Tali. Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010) pp. 44

Troen, S. Ilan. Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement. (New Have: Yale University Press, 2003) pp. 96

http://www.jabotinsky.org/Site/content/t5.asp?Sid=12&Pid=125

(accessed October 19, 2011)

http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/the-architect-s-soul-1.6734

(accessed October 19, 2011)

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Creator 2 Dates

1930-

Creator 2 Role

Architect

Creator 3 Role

Architect

Subject Headings

Land use -- Aerial photography in land use -- Israel -- Tel Aviv; Cities and towns -- Israel -- Tel Aviv; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Modern movement;

Country Name

Israel

City Name

Tel Aviv

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Keywords

brutalism, municipalities, Jabotinsky, modernism, architecture

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