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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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