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3-1980

Description

Following Israel’s independence concrete tenement houses were quickly constructed to accommodate large numbers of refugee’s living in ma’abarot, refugee tent camps. This 1980 photograph of Machei Israel Square also shows some of these modernist tenement houses.

The square, which was proposed by Yaacov Ben Sera to be the new civic heart of Tel Aviv, was designed by architects Abramham Yaski and Shlomo Pozner, who won the job during a 1951 competition. They adhered to Sera’s plan which called for no vegetation, pavement, and space enough for 80,000 people.

The plaza is a large open space featuring a repeating geometric pattern in white on red brick. One end of the plaza iborded by vegetation and the other has a pool known as the Ecological Pool. The addition of the city hall building in 1965 redefined the hierarchy of the square and emphasizing the new urban symbolism of the new square.

Notes

Hatuka, Tali. Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010), 41-45

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin_Square

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maabarot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Israel

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Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Creator 2 Role

Architect

Creator 3 Role

Architect

Creator 4 Role

City Engineer

Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

city planning, housing, land use, public spaces, plazas, urban design

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