Episode 7 - Tel Aviv's White City, Part 2

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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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