The object of Zionism : the architecture of Israel /

The object of Zionism : the architecture of Israel /

The Object of Zionism: The Architecture of Israel is a critical study of Zionist spatial planning and the architectural fabrication of the State of Israel from the early decades of the twentieth century to the 1960s and 1970s. It scrutinizes Israel as a singular modernist project, unprecedented in i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Efrat, Zvi, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leipzig : Spector Books, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Architecture > Israel.
Architecture > Israel > 20th century.
Architecture > Israel > Designs and plans.
Architecture and state > Israel.
Zionism > Israel.
Table of Contents:
  • Object : Dossier: Julius Posener's tableau
  • Project : Dossier: Arieh Sharon's mise-en-scène
  • Theory : Dossier: Patrick Abercrombie's synopsis
  • Jewish style : Dossier: Erich Mendelsohn's semitic architecture
  • Fair Levant : Dossier: Levant fair
  • Ruins of war : Dossier: Marcel Janco's Bohemian colony
  • Camps : Dossier: Louis Kahn's prefab dwellings
  • Ruins of time : Dossier Moshe Dayan's archaeological fetish
  • Forests
  • Desert : Dossier: Moshe Novomeysky's Sodom
  • Rural : Dossier: Richard Kauffmann's Zionist Gartenstadt
  • Communal : Dossier: Samuel Bickels' Kibbutz gardenscape
  • Pasolini's travelogue
  • Model state
  • State architecture : Dossier: the Hebrew University campus
  • Union architecture : Dossier: the Rechters' proletarian retreats
  • New towns : Dossier: Ze'Ev Drunkman's Yamit
  • Public housing : Dossier: brief typology of the Shikun
  • Serial blocks
  • Exemplary neighborhoods
  • Hyper-urbanism : Dossier: van den Broek and Bakema's mega-projects
  • The National Museum and the Shrine of the Book : Dossier: Isamu Noguchi's sculpture garden
  • Ein Rafa
  • Brutalism : Dossier: Philip Johnson's reactor
  • Structuralism : Dossier: Goodovitch's architecturology ; Dossier: Neumann-Hecker-Sharon's polygonism
  • Public works
  • Detail
  • Luxus : Dossier: Dora Gad's designs
  • Tropics : Dossier: Heinz Fenchel's extravagance
  • Commemoration : Dossier: the ghetto fighters' house
  • Privatization
  • Speculation : Dossier: Oscar Niemeyer's exile
  • Appropriation : Dossier: Louis Kahn's ruin
  • Occupation : Dossier: excerpts from B'Tselem's report.