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Tel Aviv has the largest collection of Bauhaus-style structures in the world. In the 1930s, after the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany, scores of Jewish architects fled to British-mandated Palestine and made their home in Tel Aviv. Here they built literally thousands of (mostly white) modern Bauhaus-style houses, around which the city grew, as it became a lab experiment for Bauhaus.
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The center of the White City was set on Rothschild Boulevard, in the heart of Tel Aviv, and it came to flourish thanks to the municipality’s lack of established architectural conventions.
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Though the British urban planner Patrick Geddes laid out the street and block sizes in the 1920s, no architectural style per se was ever prescribed. This allowed the Jewish Bauhaus-loving (and Le Corbusier-inspired) German architects to let their imagination run wild when designing public and residential buildings in the city. The designs and structures were adapted to the hot and humid Tel Aviv climate, thereby distinguishing Tel Aviv’s Bauhaus buildings from the European Bauhaus structures through windows and balconies.
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Tel Aviv // 2015
Tel Aviv has the largest collection of Bauhaus-style structures in the world. In the 1930s, after the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany, scores of Jewish architects fled to British-mandated Palestine and made their home in Tel Aviv. Here they built literally thousands of (mostly white) modern Bauhaus-style houses, around which the city grew, as it became a lab experiment for Bauhaus.
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The center of the White City was set on Rothschild Boulevard, in the heart of Tel Aviv, and it came to flourish thanks to the municipality’s lack of established architectural conventions.
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Though the British urban planner Patrick Geddes laid out the street and block sizes in the 1920s, no architectural style per se was ever prescribed. This allowed the Jewish Bauhaus-loving (and Le Corbusier-inspired) German architects to let their imagination run wild when designing public and residential buildings in the city. The designs and structures were adapted to the hot and humid Tel Aviv climate, thereby distinguishing Tel Aviv’s Bauhaus buildings from the European Bauhaus structures through windows and balconies.
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Tel Aviv // 2015