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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.
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
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chet, "Tel Aviv: Metzudat Ze’ev (also known as Beit Jabotinsky) & Tel Aviv City Hall" (1980). Smolski Images. 654.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/654
Keywords
brutalism, municipalities, Jabotinsky, modernism, architecture
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)