Talking Modernism

Episode 7 - Tel Aviv's White City, Part 2


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Second in a 2-part series on Tel Aviv's "White City", the world's largest collection of modernist-style architecture.   In this episode I discuss the growth, decline and rediscovery of the White City.  I also discuss the contrasting work of Expressionist architect Erich Mendelsohn 

To explore further:

  • Newsreels of Tel Aviv, including the White City period
  • Wikipedia on Levant Fair 1932
  • Engel House, White City
  • Rubinsky House, White City
  • Dizengoff Square, White City
  • Plan for Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Mies van der Rohe, 1928
  • Book White City, Black City, Sharon Rotbard,2005/2015
  • Article on German Expressionist architecture
  • Einstein Tower, Berlin
  • Weizmann Villa, Rehovot
  • Book Seizing Jerusalem - The Architectures of Unilateral Unification, Prof Alana Nitzan-Shiftan, 2017

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Talking ModernismBy Michael Hauptman