#books #guides #architecture | Bauhaus Tel Aviv : an architectural guide

Bauhaus Tel Aviv : an architectural guide / Nahoum Cohen.
London : Batsford, 2003.
276 p. : il
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Guías / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Israel / Bauhaus / Tel Aviv 

📕 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9780713487923
Cita APA-7: Cohen, Nahoum, Hirsch, Jachin (2003). Bauhaus Tel Aviv : an architectural guide. Batsford. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-(036)72(569.4) BAU
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1117351015

[.es] Israeli architecture was and is still influenced by the International Style, and specifically by the Bauhaus school, with some local modifications. The Bauhaus approach to design began permeating into what was then Palestine under the British Mandate, and developed quickly and strongly in the emerging state of Israel. The International Style was introduced into the country by young architects, many of German extraction, some of whom had trained or taught at the Bauhaus, most of whom came with their families to escape Nazism. Others came from Russia and Poland, competing their studies in Europe, absorbing the then emerging ideas of the International Style. The will to build a new society, uninfluenced by older European traditions caught on readily, and the simple forms of the Bauhaus were applied. Tel Aviv contains up to 1000 buildings in the Bauhaus idiom, designed using simple geometry, usually inexpensive buildings on small, regular parcels of land. The technology was simple; using plastered and stuccoed block and concrete construction in a country lacking the elaboration of more traditional and expensive materials. This book describes a heritage that is only now being conserved and appreciated.

#books #guides #architecture | Architectural guide : Tel Aviv

Architectural guide : Tel Aviv / Sharon Golan Yaron ; research assistant and co-author, Yuval Even.
Berlin : DOM, 2019.
263 p. : il. 
Serie: Architectural guide.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Guías / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Israel / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Israel / Tel Aviv

📕 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783869222523
Cita APA-7: Golan Yaron, Sharon & Even, Yuval (2019). Architectural guide : Tel Aviv. DOM.
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-(036)72(569.4) ARC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1124679224

[.en] Home to more than 4,000 constructions built in a Bauhaus-influenced yet site-­specific modernist style, Tel Aviv’s White City is a world-renowned UNESCO World ­Heritage Site. In this guide, conservation archi­tect Sharon Golan Yaron highlights 100 such structures along four routes. Furthermore, the book illustrates the uniqueness of Tel Aviv’s contemporary conservation approach, which maintains historic values while promoting the growth of the city through allowing additions on top of ­historical buildings.

Tour 1: The Historic Heart. Bialik Square and its Surroundings
Tour 2: The Vibrant Boulevard. Rothschild Boulevard and its Surroundings
Tour 3: The Best Practice. Dizengoff Square and its Surroundings
Tour 4: The Urban Fringe. Beyond the World Cultural Heritage

#books #architecture | Form and light : from Bauhaus to Tel Aviv

Form and light : from Bauhaus to Tel Aviv / Yigal Gawze ; essays, Michael Jacobson, Gilad Ophir.
Munich : Hirmer, 2018.
119 p. : il.
ISBN 9783777430997
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Israel / Bauhaus / Fotografía de arquitectura / Movimiento moderno (Arquitectura) / Tel Aviv (Israel)
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.036(569.4) FOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1104820542

[.en] “Yigal Gawze’s photographs capture the abstraction, the simplicity and the optimism of early modernism in Tel Aviv. He distils the essence of the Bauhaus to bring it alive in a modern city and concentrates on the subtle effects of natural light upon architecture, a technique that the masters of the modern movement themselves applauded." Nonie Niesewand, design editor & author

The fragment - an essential part of the structure which carries within it the genetic code of the whole, is in the core of this visual inquiry depicting Tel Aviv’s White City. The encounter between a building style originating in Europe and the Mediterranean glare, is highlighted by the colour photography. While paying homage to the Bauhaus spi rit and the avant - garde photographers of the 1920s, it is also a tribute to past ideals and present renewal, enhancing the current relevance of the Modern Movement in an exceptional urban setting. The images add up to create a portrait of a place by reveal ing the poetic essence of its architecture and the role light takes in shaping it.

#books #architecture | Gran Mediterraneo : project, process, progress

Gran Mediterraneo : project, process, progress / David Tajchman.
New York : Actar, 2018.
206 p. : il.
ISBN 9781948765015
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Israel / Rascacielos / Tel Aviv (Israel)
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.011.27 GRA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101431575

[.en] David Tajchman's first book about a self-initiated architectural research for a White City-specific High-Rise: the Gran Mediterraneo. Gathering working documents, sketches and rare pictures in an object specifically designed by graphic designer and art director Sara Jassim. In 2016, architect David Tajchman made public a self-initiated high-rise proposal on which he worked in secret during a few months. He decided to propose a new typology of skyscraper, more city-specific for Tel Aviv. Based on his previous observations that a new skyline is appearing in the White City, which according to his experience of the city and his knowledge of the local architectural history, does not take enough into account the 1930s and later Brutalist legacies. His yet unbuilt (but surely to get built) skyscraper is a spontaneous proposal from a foreign architect to the local decision makers, to open their eyes and their mind to other visions, for a more Tel Aviv-specific ver-tical architecture. The Gran Mediterraneo has been widely published as an architectural innovation and has won several awards gaining international recognition, with the recent Architizer A+ Awards 2017 received in New York. During the design process, David sketched, wrote, read and photographed about the various topics involved into his high-rise proposal. This book is an opportunity to share his references, background, research docu-ments, notes, drawings and working (3d) models. The book was first an exhibition-catalogue, presented last September 2016 in Paris in the framework of a solo show entitled ‘Gran Mediterraneo - Project Process Progress’. It contains archive documents on different topics and texts from invited contributors. 

The Gran Mediterraneo is an innovative concept of High-Rise that integrates a public automated car-park, operates as the first induction charging station for public and shared electric driverless vehicles in the city (future 'sherut'), and mixes programs of vertical living: residential apartments and hotel, bars and restaurants, farming and public gardens, swimming pools and dead sea spas, co-working spaces for offices and start-ups, educational and events spaces. Innovative also with its topological geometry giving a spiral effect to the high-rise, the Gran Mediterraneo breaks with the global and usual stacking of horizontal slabs wrapped with mirrored glass, aiming to renew Tel Aviv skyline with a 'Unesco proclaimed white city' specific vertical architecture. To be built with white concrete, using the latest construction and digital technologies, the curvy high-rise is filled with mediterranean and dead sea natures.