More Than Bauhaus

The Architecture of the White City Tel Aviv

Regina Rose Stephan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2019
AADR – Art Architecture Design Research (Verlag)
9783887785604 (ISBN)

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In 2003 Tel Aviv became a UNESCO WorldHeritage site. On this occasion Tel Aviv wasdescribed as a "synthetic representationof some of the most significant trends ofthe Modern Movement in architecture, as itdeveloped in Europe".Today the "White City" in Tel Aviv with itssome 4,000 buildings from the 1920s and1930s is renowned as the largest collectionof so-called Bauhaus buildings in the world.What does it mean that the architects ofthese projects arrived from all over Europe,and only six of them were Bauhaus alumni?Over recent decades the word Bauhaus hasbecome synonymous with modernity in art,design and architecture. Often disregardingthe original intentions of the School, foundedin 1919 and closed in 1933, it serves asa label for all kinds of merchandise. Amongthem architecture is the most prominent.But, what is Bauhaus? And, is there such athing as a specific Bauhaus architecture?In search of an answer to these crucialquestions, students from Germany, Israeland Austria studied the original Bauhausbuildings in Dessau, Germany, beforetraveling to Tel Aviv, Israel to undertakefurther research. For them, the questionremained: Bauhaus or not?

Erscheinungsdatum	26.09.2019
Verlagsort	Baunach
Sprache	englisch
Maße	240 x 170 mm
Gewicht	636 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
Schlagworte	20th century architecture • architectural education • Architectural heritage • architectural preservation • architectural restoration • Architektur • Bauhaus • Bauhaus influence • cultural heritage • Design research • German-Israeli cooperation • Heritage Conservation • Historic Buildings • Interdisciplinary design • International Style • modernism • modernist architecture • Student Workshop • Tel Aviv • Tel Aviv Architecture • urban planning • White City Tel Aviv
ISBN-13	9783887785604 / 9783887785604
Zustand	Neuware