Tel Aviv: Housing

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Dublin Core

Title

Tel Aviv: Housing

Description

Shown in this picture is the Bauhaus architecture of Tel Aviv. This was introduced to the city during the 1920s and 1930s by German architects who moved to Palestine after the Nazi generation expanded. Bauhaus is a German modernist style of architecture has several distinct characteristics including its use of ornamentation, asymmetry and looks at a building in terms of space instead of mass. They are also usually cubic and contain many right angles.

Creator

Chester Smolski

Date

1980-03-01

Rights

Rhode Island College

Format

Photograph
Photograph

Identifier

0849

Smolski Image Item Type Metadata

Building Style

Modernism

City

Tel Aviv

Country

Israel

Library of Congress Subject Headings

City planning -- Israel -- Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv, Israel -- Buildings, structures, etc.; Housing -- Dwellings -- Israel -- Tel Aviv; Architecture, German -- Israel -- Tel Aviv; Architecture, Modern -- German -- 20th century;