an Urban Experience SOCIAL BAUHAUS 28-30.11 2019

Ronit Shany, Postcards from father's shop, 2019.

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Welcome! (consult the program). One can reach the “Social Bauhaus” by train. Get off or park at the Merkaz Welcome to Haifa, to the Social Bauhaus Urban Experience, Marking the Hashemona station and take the Carmelit up from the Paris Square station Centenary of Bauhaus, including performances and exhibitions in iconic venues to Massada. From there, continue on foot to Hadarion, to the sites and tours at Hadar Hacarmel, such as the Talpiot Market and Ora Cinema, to name but in Hadar Hacarmel and the Talpiot Market. Alternatively, park your car in the two. Most of these places have been abandoned, but they’re open to the public vicinity of the Talpiot Market and Syrkin Street or at the Hanevi’im parking for the three days of the “Social Bauhaus,” with dozens of exhibitions, lectures, facility, within walking distance of the market. For your information, walking and tours. “Social Bauhaus” is held in conjunction with “Open House,” which from the Talpiot Market to Hadarion includes some hill-climbing, particularly offers architectural tours. An international conference on architecture has on Balfour Street. taken place at the City Hall, under the auspices of the Built Heritage Research For updates and additional information, visit socialbauhaus.co.il or Center, the Faculty of Architecture. the Social Bauhaus Facebook page. Entrance to all exhibit sites, tours, The Mayor of Haifa, Dr. Einat Kalisch-Rotem, remarks: “One of Haifa’s performances, and activities is free of charge. principal assets is its historical city centre, with its profusion of architectural works and, in particular, its unique Bauhaus structures that make Haifa a city of charm and uncommon qualities. A city that does not know how to respect its past is one that has no future. I said so before the elections and since coming Opening the gate into office I have been acting ceaselessly in this direction. Haifa deserves to Three focal types of public space undergird the Hadar Hacarmel become a World Heritage Site, largely by virtue of its ever so unique modern neighbourhood as it was originally designed by the architect Richard architecture and its combination of Occident and Orient, Western design and Kaufmann. The cooperative triangulation that evolved among all the local Arab technologies. Once the city centre becomes an historical and touristic institutions in the area, together with the urban core where commercial ״.monument, Haifa will flourish activity took place, made the area grow and gave it its unique reputation. The “Social Bauhaus” event, in concert with the Municipality of Haifa and Beit The “Social Bauhaus” events are held in the throbbing public heart of Hadar Ha'Gefen, Mifal Hapayis, the Faculty of Architecture, and the University of Haifa Hacarmel of that time—the Technion campus, Bet Hapoalim, and the Amphi- (via the Faculty of the Humanities) is made possible, among other things, by Theatre as far as the Talpiot Market. Many of the structures have been sold a contribution from the Chair of the Board of Governors, Mr. Brad Bloom. The off; the land where they used to sit now accommodates diverse populations academic adviser is Prof. Yossi Ben-Artzi. and living tapestries that are undergoing rapid change. The entire event is an opportunity to engage in remembering, getting acquainted, and encountering, The curator, Dr. Galia Bar Or, is into her second year of research on Haifa. in a way that also creates a point of departure for future activity. “Social (Last year, she focused on Wadi Salib.) Four centres in the Hadar Hacarmel Bauhaus” invites its visitors not only to form an impression of these fascinating neighborhood demarcate the route of those who visit the “Social Bauhaus” places but also to get a sense of what churns beneath the surface: the overt event in places that used to be central: and covert, the open and the obstructed, in places that were once a core of At the Hadarion building (the former Bosmat School, corner of Balfour and meaning, for Haifa and for the whole country. Massada Streets), an exhibition titled “Haifa Bauhaus—Is There Such a Thing?” This complex activity, which reveals Haifa’s inner power, is the product is presented. At the Bet HaKeranot (corner of Balfour and Herzl Streets) you of cooperation between diverse populations all over the town: civil-society will find “The Countdown,” which includes an installation in the underground associations, academic institutions, social groups, artists living in Haifa and passageway (Balfour–Herzl). In the heart of Red Haifa, at the erstwhile Ora the public at large. They collaborate in this event due to their conviction that Cinema (41 Herzl Street), is the exhibition “The Pink Sanctuary Comes to Life.” a “place” has a great deal of pent-up power. A space makes room for the Across from there, in the passageway via the stairs, you can visit the Labour footprints of human experience along with change, vigour, accommodation of Council House on Hehaluts Street and the “Red Haifa” exhibition. Downhill memory, the raising of conflict to the surface, and a forum for dialogue. from this building, at what remains of the Amphi-Theatre cinema—now a parking lot (on Syrkin Street)—an “automobile ensemble” sound performance is presented. Further along the street, in the Talpiot Market structure, all the floors of which have been cleared and cleaned (Syrkin 35), is an exhibition and performances—“With Our Love, A Body Becomes A Place,” comprising presentations by dozens of artists along with dance and sound events. “Social Bauhaus” is held in conjunction with “Open House,” which offers tours of the city in a way that integrates the perception of the event, the boundaries of which sprawl from Massada–Balfour Streets to Syrkin–Barzilai. Additional “Open House” tours are held in distinctive buildings around town

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Hadarion: “Haifa Bauhaus—Is There Also on display at Hadarion is a tribute to Gilbert Herbert, a doyen and dean of the Faculty of Architecture and a co-founder of the Architecture Such a Thing?” Documentation Unit that the Faculty set up in 1975, before the importance of legacy documentation was acknowledged. Herbert developed the unit into The Technion campus in Hadar Hacarmel, a large unbroken parcel of education an architectural legacy research center in 1990. Here, for the first time, are institutions and gardens, was designed to include not only the Technion excerpts of interviews with him by the cinema documenter Michael Hanan (the vanguard of Israel’s institutes of technological education) but also two in 2017, shortly before Herbert’s death. The excerpts make reference to the high schools: one “reali” (science-based) and the other vocational. Behind subtitle above (“Haifa Bauhaus—Is There Such a Thing?)” and, inter alia, to every successful Bauhaus architect stand technological skills and inventions, the Bauhaus conception of Walter Gropius, with whom Herbert maintained workshops, and artisans. It was for this purpose, due to the initiators' foresight, research and personal relations. Students from the Center co-produced the that the spacious and unbroken parcel of land from Herzl Street all the way to exhibition. Massada Street was purchased back in the early twentieth century. Drawings by the architect Sergio Lerman of International Style structures in Construction of the Technion began in 1909 but got bogged down due to Haifa are also on display at Hadarion. Lerman was part of a Tel Aviv-Yafo team wars and regime changes until the school opened officially in 1925—by which that acted in the 1990s, under Professor Shamai Assif (then the Tel Aviv-Yafo time the area had become a cultural and social focal point. The Faculty of municipal engineer), to save the Ajami quarter of Yafo (Jaffa). The exhibition Architecture was the first to operate there; the Faculty of Civil Engineering is presented to demonstrate a modus operandi that may also be applied came in alongside it. The Faculty of Architecture was also the last to leave the in Hadar Hacarmel and to enhance the public’s awareness of preservation. area and move to the new Technion campus on Mount Carmel. This exhibition, too, was put on in conjunction with students from the Built Hadarion, the host of a number of “Social Bauhaus” exhibitions and Heritage Research Center. performances, is an octagonal structure that used to belong to the vocational Nira Lev’s paintings, including memories of childhood near the Technion high school (which evolved into Bosmat School). It opened back in 1928 and in campus and the “Clock Building” intersection, are displayed at the heart of 1933 it reopened as a vocational school that combined technical and academic Hadarion. In the entrance foyer, which served as a commemoration center, subjects under the Technion’s management. It became renowned; its alumni Leor Grady and Nardeen Srouji placed installations that connect with the went on to the Technion and played an active role in the Hagana by producing domain of a complex memory. On the ground floor is an exhibition of 100 various implements and instruments while overhauling British military International Style structures in Haifa, initiated and produced by the architect aircraft. In 1938, a naval school opened there as well; it moved out in 1955. Walid Karkabi and the Haifa Municipal Preservation Department. At the heart In 2007, Bosmat School was shut down by decision of the Technion Senate. of this exhibition stands an installation that addresses architectural discourse, The buildings of the vocational school were abandoned, including the oldest of created by Lena Arbov Atuar and Yaacov Chefetz. them, built in the Bauhaus style (architect: Yohanan Ratner) and the octagonal At the focal area of the ground floor, artist Naama Hadany has created an structure that housed the library (architect: Shlomo Gilead). The building was installation composed of tiles into which pieces of fabric have been inserted. renovated in 2016 by the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning for use as Roni Hajaj’s installation dialogues with works by Mordechai Gumpel, historically the faculty’s extension in Hadar Hacarmel. the renowned public space artist of Haifa. A sound work by Roy Cohen is also on A tribute exhibition, including rare items from Bosmat that were found display. shortly before the “Social Bauhaus” was inaugurated, is positioned in the In the underground area (still under construction), Alina Rom-Cohen has middle of the structure. placed a glass and mixed-technique work concerning construction and fragility A sprawling exhibition at Hadarion honors the architect Moshe Gerstel, who and states of migration. in addition to being a gifted architect was a multi-talented painter. The pulse of local relations seems to pound in the contents of Gerstel’s archive: writings, Hadarion—enter from 23 Balfour Street, Haifa. documents, sketches of buildings and portraits painted by Gerstel, many Open Thursday, November 28, 10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.; Friday, November 29, revealed for the first time at the “Social Bauhaus” event. Gerstel’s paintings 10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m.; Saturday, November 30, 10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m. of his Arab colleagues and the story of their cooperation project reflects onto the nature of Haifa’s diverse texture. The collaboration among those who take part in this story—Arabs and Jews, planners, artists, and artisans—allowed tradition and innovation to mate. On the occasion of the “Social Bauhaus,” an encounter between Gerstel’s grandson and Sami Karaman, the son of Taher Karaman, with whom Architect Gerstel collaborated, documented by the artist Mali De-Kalo, is shown at the exhibition.

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“The Countdown” “The Pink Sanctuary Comes to Life“ An exhibition at Bet HaKeranot and in the underground passageway to Exhibition at the Ora Cinema Herzl Street. The Ora Cinema, the throbbing heart of Hadar Hacarmel, was dedicated in At the heart of the intersection of Balfour and Herzl stands the “Clock Building.” 1935 “to disseminate the culture of the spirit and the soul” (architects: Oskar Across from it is Bet HaKeranot, built in 1935 as a joint project of the Technion Kaufmann and Eugen Stolzer). The first film shown there was Crime and and the Reali High School, co-funded by the Foundation Fund (Keren Hayesod) Punishment. Built in accordance with the principles of the International Style, and the Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet)—whence its name, which it blossomed and flourished until a fire forced it to suspend operations in 1941. means “house of the funds.” This innovative commercial and office building When it reopened six years later, an elated journalist reported: “In its beauty energized the development of Herzl Street and served as a public forum and its fine appurtenances, it surpasses the Ora Cinema of yore.” Years later, and an important venue for Shavuot festival parades, dance events, May Day however, the building was abandoned and sold to a real-estate entrepreneur celebrations, and more. (Its architect, Joseph Klarwein, also designed the Dagon who modified it. Part of the original balcony is open to the public during the grain elevators and the Knesset building in Jerusalem, among other works.) three days of the “Social Bauhaus.” The exhibition is dedicated to the memory On the occasion of the “Social Bauhaus,” photographs of the 1957 May of Professor Uri Katzenstein, a highly regarded artist who was active at the Day parade at Bet HaKeranot, taken by Gerda Cohen-Litman, a fashion Haifa University School of the Arts and died a year ago. The artist Hadi Kalil, photographer from the Netherlands, are revealed for the first time, printed Katzenstein’s pupil, put up a sculpture installation accompanied by sound, large scale and suspended from the top floor of the building (courtesy of the projection and movement. Starring in the middle are sculptural wheels that Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa; and the Bruck-Cohen propel the set of elements in a centrifugal movement, assembled by Kalil Family). In the display windows of the half-abandoned structure, artist Shay in collaboration with artists and other sound professionals. Hila Chessen Zilberman has installed works that correspond with visions of modernity and presents a film where the present-day reality of abandoned movie theatres Zionism. in Hadar Hacarmel is pondered. Revital Lessick presents a theatrical tribute Iddo Markus’ exhibition of paintings on the theme of parades “not from to the abandoned Ron Cinema down the street. Avinoam Caspi Greenfield here” appears in the display windows at the foot of the building. On both sides dubs memories from his childhood home, which bordered the Ora Cinema. of the underground passageway at Balfour Street, visitors contemplate mosaics The “Screech Orchestra” from Holon performs amid other performances and of processions by Mordechai Gumpel in the 1950s and a sculpture installation encounters. There’s popcorn too. created by Ofer Lellouche in conjunction with artists from Haifa and the vicinity. Across from there, the motionless clock of the Clock Building (architect: Ora Cinema, 41 Herzl Street. Thursday, November 28: 10:00 a.m.–10.00 p.m.; Gideon Kaminka, 1934–1936) observes the scene. Every self-respecting city Friday, November 29: 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.; Saturday, November 30: 5:00– has a clock tower and Bauhaus Haifa had the Clock Building, which came to 10:00 p.m. symbolize the entire city. Atop the relatively tall and dignified building, a large and accurate clock was installed. Visible from far and wide, it allowed passersby to calibrate their own watches. This beloved municipal landmark ״Red Haifa״ and icon, disseminated on postcards and in photos, appears on the leading Exhibition at the Labor Council House image of the “Social Bauhaus”—a collage created by artist Ronit Shany on an historical postcard showing Bet HaKeranot and the Clock Building. Artist Here is the heart of “Red Haifa”: the Ora Cinema, Bet Hapoalim and the Labor Belu-Simion Fainaru wished to revive the dormant clock for the three days Council House and the Amphi-Theatre, now a parking lot. When you exit Ora of the “Social Bauhaus” but was denied by the real-estate entrepreneur Cinema you’ll notice a bridge that leads to the building across, which looks who owns the Clock Building. Therefore a living statue spent the three days like an unbroken structural continuum that follows the bend along Hehaluts demonstrating across from the building—a living sign, atop which the hands Street. It wasn’t always like this. It’s hard to detect the features to the right of the clock move in backward motion: Are they issuing a wake-up call? of the bridge: Bet Hapoalim (Workers’ House), dedicated in 1927, and the Amphi-Theatre alongside it, which spilled down the slope in harmony with the The Balfour Street passageway is open Thursday, November 28; Friday, topography (architect: Yohanan Ratner; see our article on the topic at the end November 29; and Saturday, November 30, 10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. of this booklet.) The structure to the left of the bridge is the Labor Council House, dedicated in 1950 (architects: Munio Gitai Weinräub and Alfred Mansfeld). The ironwork, still suspended on the wall, is Mordechai Gumpel’s creation. Visitors of “Social Bauhaus” are invited to the hall situated to the left of Gumpel’s sculpture. The place is tenanted by the Dror Yisrael cooperative, which refurbished the place

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after it went up in flames several years ago and operates it with a social and only two and a quarter years in one of the most difficult periods of all—marked educational emphasis. During the three days of the “Social Bauhaus” members by the Arab–Jewish Confrontation, publication of the White Paper and sealing of the group will take visitors on a guided tour of the “Red Haifa” district. of the country’s borders to Jewish refugees, economic crisis, the eruption of Another way to experience “Red Haifa” is by contemplating the paintings of World War II and aerial bombardments of Haifa by the Italian air force. Despite Nira Lev and Dan Lavie, based on childhood memories of the city. The artists of it all, the structure did not stint on costs. Its frame was built of reinforced “Red Haifa,” Mordechai Gumpel and Gershon Knispel, are represented by their concrete in view of its important location on the food chain. Also, impressive early relief works. The exhibition is accompanied by excerpts from the artist technological novelties were promptly installed there: a ramified internal Mali De-Kalo’s interviews with Gershon Knispel in 2018, about half a year before telephone system among the sections of the building and between it and the Knispel died. The “Dinosaurs in the Streets” Exhibition documents the extinct outside; electric freight and passenger elevators; electric refrigeration rooms movie theaters of Hadar Hacarmel, the product of a documentation course and and innovative conveniences, to name but a few. curatorship workshop facilitated by Dr. Irit Carmon Popper and Dr. Orit Shahar On the bottom floor are storerooms, a repair garage for trucks and of the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. passenger cars and a filling station. On the ground level are fruit, vegetable, Orna Oren Izraeli returns to her grandfather’s professional haunts in dairy, and general goods departments (seventy-two stalls). One floor up are “Reading Party,” which integrates posters and archive materials from his the fish and meat departments (fourteen shops), seventeen shops for related estate. Izraeli establishes the local inhabitants’ presence by producing portraits merchandise and handsome balconies that open onto the landscape. On the of them. Her grandfather, Nachman Tamir (Mirski), was the go-to person of second floor are an exhibition hall, fabric shops and haberdasheries and open culture in the Labour Movement in 1940’s Haifa. The exhibition blends the old balconies. A restaurant and broad terraces sit on the roof. and the new in furniture, archive materials, and new population groups that After having tenanting difficulties for a short time, the market began to are invited to a “reading party.” develop and also accommodated government and municipal offices. In 1980, in At the parking lot where the Amphi-Theatre used to be, an environmental the spirit of privatization, City Hall tried to sell the place (Davar, August 5, 1980). work by Doron Gazit is presented along with a great evening concert for cars. From 1982 on, the market was leased out, and in 1997 the city investigated the In this movie-set venue that still reflects its bygone glory, an ensemble of possibility of turning it into a shopping centre. automobiles performs new sound works written especially for the occasion. The exhibition, encounters and performances at the Talpiot Market within Students from Musrara (Jerusalem), facilitated by Amir Boltzmann (the New the “Social Bauhaus” framework are with the goal of preserving the building Music Department and an advanced study program in experiential music and and making it once again one of the city’s crown jewels, a public space devoted sound art) participate in sound works for an ensemble of automobiles, radio to culture and art. transmitters, and memories of what the place used to be. Participating artists: Tziki Eisenberg, “Haifa-Erfurt-Shared Modernism,” Labor Council House, 45 Hehaluts Street. Open Thursday, November 28, 10:00 Nissan Assad Hayek, Alexander Geht, Valeria Geselev, Doris Arkin, David Behar a.m.–8:00 p.m.; Friday, November 29, 10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m.; Saturday 10:00 Perahia, David Benarroch, Shwarma Boutique; Yael Balaban, Guy Bar-Amotz, a.m.–10:00 p.m. Orna Bromberg, Avital Bar-Shay, Hamody Gannam, Tomer Dekel, Amnon Wolman, David Wakstein, Mika Hazan Bloom, Doris Hakim, Orit Hasson Walder, and Eli Lulai (Rockfour), Ziv Yonatan and Lily Rattok, Penny Hes Yassour, Aviv Itzhaky, Shira Legmann with Adi Kaplan and Shahar Carmel, Haim Luski, “With Our Love, a Body Becomes a Place” Mark Yashaev, two Roy Cohens, Ofri Cnaani, Shir Leib, Motti Mizrachi‎, Daphna Exhibition at the Talpiot Market Markman Zinemanas, Maria Saleh Mahameed, Nitzan Satt, Orit Siman-Tov, Iris Cinatra, Yuval Feiglin, Or Fainaru, Belu-Simion Fainaru, Tal Bechor with In August 1937, the Carmel Committee announced a contest for the design of “The Art Savers Unit," Stav Forgas with Hagar Efrat, Beini Bouquet and Turn Talpiot Market. It was the most-subscribed architectural competition to date, the Tables at the Shwarma Boutique, Alon Peretz, Limor Tsror, Yanai Kellner, with some 100 proposals submitted. Zvika Kantor, Guy Raivitz, Mor Reimer, Noam Toran, Leah Abir, and Adam Haj The winning bid, presented by the architect Moshe Gerstel, envisioned a Yihye. Also participating are fourth-year students at the WIZO Department of conventional European- style city marketplace with natural lighting, a central Photography, facilitated by the artist Reuven Kuperman: Shahar Tishler, Asraa space that appears to be drawn upward like a cathedral and five levels that Atamleh and Adi Avutbul. Students from Haifa Reali High School took part in project horizontally and symmetrically from the sides of the entrance hall. the photography as well. To be screened: the film Bauhaus Women, courtesy of At the opening ceremony the Mayor, Shabtai Levi, thanked the architect: “His the Goethe Institute in Tel Aviv. imagination and creative genius have given the future city a structure it can be proud of.” Talpiot Market, 35 Syrkin Street. Activities: Thursday, November 28, 10:00 a.m.– Mirabile dictu, the construction began in 1938 and the market was dedicated 10:00 p.m.; Friday, November 29, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.; Saturday 5:00–10:00 p.m. on April 9, 1940! The complex building project, including final touches, took

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Balfur Yechiel House The Workers Underpass

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Thursday 28.11.19 Friday 29.11.19

The Orchestra of Screechings at the Exhibition: Talpiot Market - With Exhibition: "Carmel, International Exhibition: Talpiot Market—With Ora Cinema 11:00–12:00, Ora Cinema, Our Love, a Body Becomes a Place Style in Haifa", Photo: Stephanie Our Love, a Body Becomes a Place 4 Herzl St. 10:00–22:00, Talpiot Market, 35 Syrkin St. Kloss 16:00, Haifa City Hall, 10:00–16:00, Talpiot Market, 35 Syrkin St. Hassan Shuqri 14 Gallery talk with the curator Exhibition: “Haifa Bauhaus” - Is There Exhibition: “Haifa Bauhaus”— Galia Bar or Such a Thing? 10:00–22:00, Hadarion Is There Such a Thing? 11:00, Talpiot Market, 35 Syrkin St. and Bosmat School, 23 Balfour st. “A Shining Meteor will Light the Path 10:00–22:00, Hadarion and Bosmat of the Worker" Female Workforce: School, Balfour 23 St. Performance, Sound, and Sculpture: Exhibition: Beit HaKeranot, Noam Toran, Dr. Hannah Safran, Self-Preservation in the Digital Era "Countdown". 10:00–22:00, Balfour Manar Hasan, prof. Deborah Exhibition: Beit HaKeranot, 12:00–16:00, Ora Cinema, 4 Herzl St. Street corner Herzl st. Bernstein. 17:00, Talpiot Market, 35 "Countdown". 10:00–16:00, Balfour Syrkin St. Street corner Herzl st. “A Shining Meteor will Light the Path Exhibition: Ora Cinema- The Pink of the Worker", Noam Toran. Talk and Sanctuary Comes Alive. Launching of event at City Hall Exhibition: Ora Cinema—The Pink lecture about "Cosmopolitan Haifa" 10:00–22:00, 41 Herzl St. 18:00, City Hall, 14 Hassan Shukeiry St. Sanctuary Comes Alive Nadeem Karkabi, Haya Zaatry and 10:00–22:00, 41 Herzl St. Atallah Tannous. Guided tour of the “Reading Party” A Room for a Song: The Book A Room 12:00, Talpiot Market, 35 Syrkin St. installation with orna oren israeli of Your Own Turns Ninety Exhibition: Bet Hapoalim—Red Haifa 10:00, 12:00, 16:00, 18:00, Bet 18:30, Goldmund Books, 6 Ekron St. 10:00–22:00, 45 Hehaluts St. Plexus - sing on so you could hear: Hapoalim, 45 Hehaluts St. a workshop/performance with The Automobile Ensemble Naïve Tour: In the Footsteps of Nira Faye Shapiro 12:00–14:00, Hadarion International conference: Bauhaus 19:00, Amphi Syrkin Lev’s Paintings 09:30–12:30, Staging Auditorium, 22 Balfour St. on Mount Carmel 09:00–17:30, City point: Hadarion, 23 Balfour St. Hall, 14 Hassan Shukeiry St. Sound Tour: A Day and Its Voice with The 18th Floor: a Panoramic View Elad Bardas Guided tour of the “Reading Party” of Hadar Hacarmel Sizing Up the Bauhaus: Drawing 19:00, 21:00, installation 10:00, 12:00, 16:00, 18:00, 13:00–17:00, Market Hotel, 63 Herzl St. Workshop 14:00, Benjamin Park, point: 64 Hehaluts St. Bet Hapoalim, 45 Hehaluts Street Nordau pedestrian mall Sound Tour: A Day and Its Voice with Dance: Dega Feder and the Beta The Dovecote: Open Recording Studio Elad Bardas 14:00–16:00, Staging The 18th Floor: a Panoramic View Ensemble - Premiere Performance for Musicians 10:00–12:00, HaNevi’im point: 64 Hehaluts St. of Hadar Hacarmel 13:00–17:00, 20:00, Talpiot Market, 35 Syrkin St. Street, by advance registration Market Hotel, 63 Herzl St. Reunion of Bosmat School Alumni Deejaying at the Talpiot Market Amnon Wolman, "Watch the Space" 17:00, Hadarion, 23 Balfour St. Gallery talk with the curator 20:30, Talpiot Market, 35 Syrkin St. Sound Outing Galia Bar or 14:30, Talpiot Market, 10:00–10:30 and 12:30–13:00, Staging Theatre: “Island of Refuge” 35 Syrkin St. Launching a Neo-Apollonian Fanzine point: Talpiot Market, 35 Syrkin St. director: Nola Chilton 19:00, Hadarion 20:30, HaKeren, 5 Syrkin St. Auditorium, 23 Balfour St. Guided tour: David Maayan, "To be Tour: the Women of the Hadar a tourist in Your Country" 15:00, Hacarmel Streets with Lilach weber Theatre: "In the Place of the Other", Staging point: Hadarion, 23 Balfour St. and Adi sadaks 11:00, Staging point: with Tarbut members, director: Nola fork at Yosef HaGidam and Melchett St. Chilton 20:00, Hadarion Auditorium, 23 Balfour Street Guided tour: David Maayan, " To Be a Tourist in Your Country" 11:00, Staging point: Hadarion, 22 Balfour St.

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Exhibition: Talpiot Market—With Our Sergio Lerman, The Lesson of Ajami: Love, a Body Becomes a Place 16:00– saving Hadar Hacarmel Tour: Text and Poetry with Lilach 22:00, Talpiot Market, 35 Syrkin St. 14:00, Hadarion, 22 Balfour St. weber and Yehonatan Israel 18:00, Staging point: fork at Yosef Exhibition: “Haifa Bauhaus”—Is There Mali De-Kalo with Galia Bar Or: Three HaGidam and Melchett St. Such a Thing? 10:00–22:00, Hadarion films at Social Bauhaus and Bosmat School, Balfour 23 St. 15:00, Hadarion 22 Balfour st. Meeting, Daphna Markman with Merchants in the Talpiot Market Exhibition: Beit HaKeranot, Screening the film "Bauhaus women" 18:30 Talpiot Market, 35 Syrkin St "Countdown". 10:00–22:00, Balfour (Bauhausfrauen, by Susanne Street corner Herzl st. Radelhof) Courtesy Goethe Institut Tel Performance: Tamar Nissim, "The Aviv 16:00 Hadarion Street of Steps", (Judith Hendel) Exhibition: Ora Cinema—The Pink 22 Balfour st. 18:30, Bet Hapoalim, 45 Hehaluts St. Sanctuary Comes Alive 16:00–22:00, 41 Herzl St. The 18th Floor: a Panoramic View of The Automobile Ensemble with Amir Hadar Hacarmel Bolzman 19:00–23:00, Amphi Syrkin Exhibition: Bet Hapoalim—Red Haifa 13:00–17:00, Market Hotel, 63 Herzl St. 10:00–22:00, 45 Hehaluts St. Dance: Mr. and Mrs. Katt. Ella Rotchild Performance, Sound, and Sculpture: and Bikurey Ha'Itim Naïve Tour: In the Footsteps of Nira Self-Preservation in the Digital Era 19:00, Talpiot Market, 35 Syrkin St. Lev’s Paintings with Lea Poper 16:00–19:00, Ora Cinema, 4 Herzl St. 09:30–12:30, Staging point: Hadarion, Social Bauhaus, Music Show: Eli Lulai 23 Balfour St. Naïve Tour: In the Footsteps of Nira (Rockfour) and Orit Hasson Walder Lev’s Paintings with Lea Poper 20:00, Talpiot Market, 35 Syrkin St. Guided tour of the “Reading Party” 15:00–18:00, Staging point: Hadarion, installation with Orna Oren Israeli 23 Balfour St. “To Sleep with the Shutter Open,” 10:00, 12:00, 16:00, 18:00, Bet launching of artist’s book and Hapoalim, 45 Hehaluts St. “Ma’agalim”—Tattoo Performance exhibition 20:30, HaKeren, 5 Syrkin St. 16:00 – 22:00, Talpiot Market The Missing Piece: Family Activities and Urban Picnic 11:00–16:00, Staging Installation: “A Shining Meteor point: Hadarion, 23 Balfour St. will Light the Path of the Worker", Noam Toran. “The Merchant of Housh Tours: Touring with Merav Tzur Venice”—the trial: staged recitation. with eyes closed 11:00–15:00 (four Salwa Nakkara, Monologue and cycles), Hadarion, 23 Balfour St. conversation. 17:30, Talpiot Market, 35 Syrkin St. Gallery talk with the curator Galia Bar or 12:00, Hadarion, Avinoam Caspi Greenfield 22 Balfour St. Cinema Ora, Memory of the child who lived next door Capoeira circle, open to the public 17:30 Ora Cinema, 41 Herzl St. 14:00–16:00, Bet HaKeranot, Balfour St. corner Herzl The story of Hadar—festive screening 18:00, Ora Cinema, 41 Herzl St.

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1 architect Omri Zilka – a lecturer and who is in charge of restoring the processes taking place there, and Takwin's Offices owner of the "Pinat Rehov" blog that structure, will focus on its history and their impact on life in Wadi Salib and The corner of 39 Ha'atzmaut Rd. and deals with architecture, design and architectural features. on the nearby flea market, including Sha'ar Palmer, 3rd floor urbanism in Haifa – the tour will Friday, November 29, 12:00 from an artistic perspective. Building architect: Clifford Holliday; spotlight unique Bauhaus features Open tour. Reservations not Thursday, November 28, 17:00 Interior design: DZL - David Lebenthal in Hadar, and in Haifa in general. required Advance reservations required; the Architects, 2015 Zilka will talk about the historical tour is limited to 30 participants. A visit at the offices of the Takwin backdrop that led to adopting the 4 venture capital fund in the Lower International Style when building the The International Corner 6 City, which are located in an neighborhood, while pointing out Meeting place: Masaryk Square, next Anglo-Palestine Bank International Style office building some important Bauhaus buildings to the Nevi'im branch of the Postal 1 Natanson St. that is part of the Holliday Façade and reviewing the current state of Bank, Hadar Architect: Alexander Baerwald, 1928 designed by the British architect, Bauhaus architecture in Hadar. The Dr. Arch. Liora Bar-Am Shahal leads A look at the impressive interior of Clifford Holliday, in the 1930's. It was tour will touch on the following this tour along Herzl Street in Hadar one the most important historic constructed after the Ha'atzmaut topics: urban renewal, preservation, HaCarmel. The focus will be on the buildings in Haifa – a monumental Road strip (formerly called Kingsway) the development of public spaces, special corner buildings on the stone structure that was originally was drained, creating the longest commerce in the neighborhood, street, most of which are situated at the Haifa branch of Anglo-Palestine façade of a government building landscape issues, social issues and intersections and on squares, with Bank. It now houses the offices in the Middle East at the time. more. The tour lasts about two- each of them creating a different of the law firm Yaacov Salomon, The building has a number of and-a-half-hours and most of the urban space. During the tour, Bar-Am Lipschutz & Co. The brief tours, led International Style features, such as 3-kilometer route is downhill, ending Shahal will talk about the different by members of the Haifa History horizontal windows and rounded at Talpiot Market. buildings – the majority of which Society, will recount the story behind corners. The interior spaces of the Saturday, November 30, 14:30 were designed in the International the construction of the building building now house the offices of the Open tour. Reservations not Style – and point out the local Haifa and talk about the Land of Israel Takwin venture capital fund, which required. features of this architectural style. architectural style that the architect, invests in startup companies run Saturday, November 30, 11:00 Alexander Baerwald, sought to by Arabs entrepreneurs, as well as 3 Open tour for the first 30 people in create in it: an eclectic style that Takwin Labs that hosts some of the Brilliantly Designed? line. Reservations not required. blends Western, Middle Eastern and companies in the fund's portfolio. Meeting place: the parking garage Jewish architectural elements, such The offices include individual under Talpiot Market; the entrance is 5 as pointed arches and ancient coin workspaces and coworking spaces, from Syrkin St. Graffiti in Wadi Salib decorations. whose unconventional design Architect: Moshe Gerstel, 1940 Meeting place: the plaza in front of Thursday, November 28, 17:00-19:00 is based on a simple, recurring Talpiot Market is considered one the Haifa courthouse, 12 Pal-Yam St. (the last tour will start at 18:30) element: birch panels that serve as of the most important structures (across from Bezeq) Friday, November 29, 9:00-12:00 (the partitions, desks and facings. built in the International Style in Even though large sections of the last tour will start at 11:30) Thursday, November 28, 13:00-18:00. Haifa, and was also called a wonder Wadi Salib neighborhood in Haifa Tours for groups of 25 will start Tours for the first 20 people in line of the world by the local press in are not populated, its buildings and every 30 minutes. Reservations not will start every 30 minutes. the 1940's. It was built following an history continue to draw researchers, required. Open tours. Reservations not architectural competition (its design artists and architects. A number required. was chosen among close to 100 of street art masterpieces have 7 competing proposals) and, as soon as cropped up among the ruins of the The Technion Campus as a Museum 2 it was completed, became one of the neighborhood, whose past knew of Israeli Architecture Bauhaus Elegance symbols of the Hadar neighborhood revolutions and protests and whose Meeting place: Neve Sha'anan Gate Meeting place: the corner of 34 Bar and of Haifa, in general. But despite present is a real estate hotspot. (after the security check) Giora St. and 2 Rashi St. all its qualities, the structure with This 90-minute tour, led by Naomi The Technion campus is an open- The Hadar neighborhood, which was its splendid modernist space Koren from Alternative Tel Aviv art air museum of Israeli architecture, built between the 1920's and 1940's, and transparent ceiling has been tours, will talk about the street art where since the institution's has an extraordinary concentration deserted for many decades. The works and recount the story of the founding, buildings have been of Bauhaus buildings. Led by the tour, led by the architect Guy Arbel neighborhood, the urban renewal designed in different styles by

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leading architects. The architect Omri high ceilings, arched windows and 11 the architect Oren On, will 'wander Zilka – a lecturer and owner of the decorative floor tiles. The apartment The Tree Fighters around' the spacious common areas, "Pinat Rehov" blog that deals with was recently purchased by a young Meeting place: 23 HaTzolelet Dakar where participants will hear about architecture, design and urbanism in couple who are architects, who live St., New Romema the architectural language and style Haifa – will review the design history there with their toddler daughter. In recent years, Haifa has experienced of the building. Issues pertaining of the campus, show participants Because they had a limited budget a number of wildfires that destroyed to residential design will also be some the buildings from the outside, for renovating the apartment, they hundreds of acres of brush and discussed: localness and climate, and a few from the inside. Zilka were compelled to incorporate forest. Led by the agronomist Hanoch neighbor relations, functionality and will try and explain what rendered creative solutions, such as Polygal Burger, the tour will concentrate efficiency, movement and material, them masterpieces and what makes partitions. The apartment was on the area where the huge fire perspectives and light. the campus unique. The tour lasts designed in line with their lifestyle occurred in November 2016, which Thursday, November 28, 16:30 around two hours (and involves – without doors, with few partitions obliterated large stretches of land Friday, November 29, 10:30 walking about 1.5 kilometers, most of and little storage space - in order covered with trees and vegetation. Advance reservations required; which are downhill). to create an open and well-lit He will explain what caused the fire each of the 2 tours is limited to 25 Friday, November 29, 13:00 living area. to grow out of control and what participants. Open tour. Reservations not Thursday, November 28, 10:00-13:00 lessons have been learned from the required. Friday, November 29, 10:00-13:00 disaster. During the 90-minute tour, 13 Open house. Reservations not Burger will describe the unique work A Boutique Hotel in a Building 8 required. methods that were devised and Designated a Historical Landmark Anna Forta The architects' website: https:// implemented to rehabilitate the land Johannes PFÄNDER Hotel, 26 16 Herzliya St. brizaarchitects.wixsite.com/website damaged by the fire and restore the HaZionut St. A visit at an apartment in a 1930's brush and forest to their original Guided tours of a house that was building, which was converted 10 state within a short time. He will also built on the fringes of the German into an interior design studio that The Apartment on Keller Street talk about the measures currently Colony at the end of the 19th century. hosts cultural and enrichment 5 Keller St., HaCarmel in place, which are designed to give The building materials that were events. Because its original layout Interior design: Dana Broza, Danka firefighters quick access in the event used (wooden steps, decorative floor has remained unchanged, the Design, 2016 of another fire. tiles and concrete roof shingles) were apartment offers visitors an A visit at a 100 m2 apartment that Friday, November 29, 10:00 Saturday, manufactured by Templer craftsmen. opportunity to become acquainted overlooks Manya Shochat Garden in November 30, 10:00 The house was originally owned with the residential experience that the old Carmel area. It underwent 2 open tours for the first 40 people in by the Katoni family, who were characterized Haifa at the beginning extensive renovation and was line. Reservations not required. merchants that also had a shipping of the 20th century, which included redesigned, while making use of bold company. In 1935, the ownership of spacious living areas, high ceilings, elements such as colorful flamingo 12 the house was transferred to Aziz decorative floor tiles and wood wallpaper, a black kitchen with gilded A Shared Building Mikati, a Muslim merchant from windows. hardware, decorative cornices, works Meeting place: the corner of 2 Janusz Lebanon who owned a cigarette Friday, November 29, 10:00-14:00 of art and a design inspired by the Korczak St. and 31 Horev St., on the factory and served on the Haifa City Saturday, November 30, 13:00-16:00 world of nature. (The apartment is steps of the arched entrance Council. Towards the end of the Open house. Reservations not located on the third floor with no Architect: Ram Karmi, 1998 British Mandate period, the building required. elevator). An unusual residential complex was converted into a restaurant Friday, November 29, 10:00-13:00 that was designed by the architect called The Old Bell. Following the 9 Saturday, November 30, 10:00-13:00 Ram Karmi, who won the Israel establishment of the State of Israel, it Albi House Open house. Reservations not Prize in 2001. It constitutes an housed a teachers college. 15 Amir St., Hadar required. additional stage in a concept he The Johannes PFÄNDER boutique Interior design; Briza Architects, 2018 The designer's website: tried to develop: residential life that hotel is scheduled to open shortly A glimpse of an apartment www.danka-design.com is avant-garde, on the one hand, in the building – whose restoration situated in an old stone building, and residential life that remains is nearing completion. The hotel whose features are characteristic anchored in tradition and connected is named after the Templer artist of Arab homes that were built at with its surroundings, on the other whose grotesque and Neoclassical- the beginning of the 20th century: hand. The tour, which will be led by style paintings decorate the walls

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and ceilings of the building. 15 both sides by the different faculty floor, Room 221, Technion campus Tours dealing with the ceiling Israel Railways Museum buildings - and a later one designed A visit at the archive of the Built frescoes that were uncovered during 1 Hativat Golani St. The tours will by the architect Shlomo Gilad in Heritage Research Center located in the restoration process, led by the leave from the Museum ticket office. the 1960's, which transformed the the Faculty of Architecture and Town restorers Shay Farkash and Eli Shaltiel Tours at the Israel Railways Museum, face of the campus and left a mark Planning. It contains rare collections from Studio Tchelet, will be held on which is located in the stone on it to this very day. The two-hour that have been stored there since Thursday, November 28th at 12:00, on buildings of the historic Haifa East tour will begin with an instructive the early days of the Technion – Friday, November 29th at 10:00, and train station – the point of departure view from the famous patio of the including the rare book collection on Saturday, November 30th at 10:00. of the legendary Jezreel Valley Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. that belonged to Alexander Baerwald Tours led by the hotel's interior Train. The tours will recount the After that, participants will be shown (who designed the old Technion designers, Tsili Giladi and Bosmat history of railway transportation in the Forum, the Student Union, the building), a collection of negatives on Almagor, will be held on Thursday, the Land of Israel, starting with the Ullmann Center, the Faculty of Earth glass that depict the construction of November 28 at 13:00 and 14:00, on dedication of the first line between Engineering and Geology, and the public buildings during the British Friday, November 29 at 11:00 and Jaffa and Jerusalem in 1892 and up Physics and Chemistry faculties. The Mandate period, and a collection 12:00, and on Saturday, November 30 to the accelerated development of tour will also stop at the botanical of student projects starting in the at 11:00 and 12:00. The tours will last Israel Railways that is now underway. garden and end in the parking lot of 1960's. Tour participants will also be about 45 minutes. Tour participants will be shown a the Engineering Faculty. shown collections received by the 9 open tours for the first 30 people variety of antique steam engines and Friday, November 29, 9:30 archive in recent years, such as the in line. Reservations not required. railroad cars stored at the Museum Open tour. Reservations not collection of the Yaar architecture and will also become familiar with required. firm and the collection of the 14 basic concepts relating to railway architect, Shmuel Yavin. The Historic Haifa East Train Station transportation. 45-minute guided 17 Friday, November 29, 13:00 Meeting place: next to the Israel tours will start every hour on the A Forest Campus A session limited to the first 15 Railways Museum ticket office, 1 hour. Meeting place: Churchill Plaza, next people in line. Reservations not Hativat Golani St. It is advisable to directly access the to the Churchill Building and Senate required. Ruth Liberty-Shalev and Adi Har- Museum using the Museum Train, House in the middle of the Technion Noy, the preservation architects which leaves from the Haifa Center – campus 19 who are documenting and HaShmona station every 40 minutes. A two-hour tour of the Technion Urbanization and Modernization in restoring the buildings in the old Timetable information can be found campus led by Rakefet Sinai, a Ottoman Haifa train station compound, will be on the Israel Railways website. landscape architect and lecturer at Meeting place: 7 Hassan Shukri St. leading these hourlong tours, Friday, November 29, 9:00-14:00 (the the Faculty of Architecture and Town Keren Ben Hillel, who does research which will offer participants a last tour will start at 13:00) Planning. The tour will review the on architecture and is also an artist snapshot of the fascinating past of Open tours. Reservations not design history of the open spaces and curator, leads this tour that will the Haifa East train station. They required. on campus, starting in its early focus on local Arab construction and will present original documents days and up to the 1970's. Sinai will the changes it underwent in the from the building file and discuss 16 focus on the special design concept latter part of the Ottoman period. the close connection between the Tracking the Lost Master Plan that stemmed from the physical The tour will start with a view of development of modern Haifa and Meeting place: the entrance lobby attributes of the area, which used to the Lower City from the mountain the construction of the terminus of (a.k.a. as the Mushroom) to the be forestland and later turned into a terrace in the lower section of Hadar the Hijaz Railway in the city in 1905. Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, symbol and feature of the Technion. and continue from there to Wadi It is advisable to directly access the Technion campus Friday, November 29, 10:00 Salib. Ben Hillel will explain the Museum using the Museum Train, A tour of the Technion campus Open tour. Reservations not modernization and urbanization which leaves from the Haifa Center – with the preservation architect, required. processes that took place in the HaShmona station every 40 minutes. Amir Freundlich, who will present city, which had an impact on the Timetable information can be found the two master plans that were 18 development of the urban grid and on the Israel Railways website. made for the campus: one that was The Avie and Sarah Arenson Built changed the residential model that Friday, November 29, 10:30 and 11:45 designed by Prof. Alexander Klein Heritage Research Center existed at the time. The two-hour 2 open tours. Reservations not in 1953, whose centerpiece was a Amado Building, Faculty of tour will end at the Pyramid in required. main green pathway flanked on Architecture and Town Planning, 2nd Wadi Salib.

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Saturday, November 30, 9:00 between 1959 and 1965. The tour, 23 Friday, November 29, 10:00 Open tour. Reservations not led by the architect Ruth Liberty- Bauhaus for Artists Open tour. Reservations not required. Shalev, will focus on the unique 34a Yosef HaGidem St., Apt. 7, top required. features of the building as well floor 20 as Alfred Neumann, the architect Interior design: the architect Aya 25 Abandoned Movie Theaters in Hadar and professor who introduced Auerbach, 2016 Renewal on Jaffa Road HaCarmel Morphology studies at the Technion's A glimpse of a rooftop apartment in Meeting place: Paris Square, Meeting place: Workers House, Faculty of Architecture. Assisted by a Bauhaus building from the 1940's, Natanson St., (next to the Carmelit) between 41 and 43 HeHalutz St, next his student, Zvi Hecker, Neumann which was renovated by the couple Jaffa Road was the first street in to the entrance to Mercaz Siach applied the theory that evolved from who own it - an architect and an Haifa to be built outside the old Led by Dr. Irit Carmon Popper those studies to this building. The artist - for their own use. Located in city walls - built in the 18th century and Dr. Oryan Shachar and the tour will continue from there to other the heart of the historic zone of the by Daher al-Omar, the founder of students: Asma Abu-Raya, Nardeen morphological roofs that were built Hadar neighborhood, the apartment modern Haifa. By the 19th century, Elias, Jana Omari, Hadeel Said and on the Technion campus, designed has a large patio with an abundance elegant buildings lined the street, Lavi Vanounou at the Faculty of by faculty members of the Faculty of of plants, alcove seating and studios, most of which belonged to the Architecture and Town Planning, Architecture in the 1950's and 1960's. which exemplifies a contemporary local Christian population or to Technion IIT, this tour on HeHalutz The hourlong tour will end at the and modest adaptation to Haifa roof churches. During the British Mandate and Syrkin Streets will trace what meeting place. living. period, Jaffa Road became a main happened to two former movie Friday, November 29, 13:00 Because there is no elevator, visitors commercial thoroughfare, but theaters: the first and the last to Advance reservations required; the will have to climb around 70 steps to later suffered from neglect and a be built in Hadar HaCarmel: Amphi tour is limited to 30 participants. reach the apartment. continuing state of decline. This (built in 1926) and Ron (built in 1962). Friday, November 29, 16:00-19:00 tour with the landscape architect The first part of the tour will stop at 22 Saturday, November 30, 12:00-15:00 Hila Rotem-Halevi, from Greenstein what is left of the theaters and tell The First Building Open house. Reservations not – Har-Gil Landscape Architecture, their story. Participants will then Meeting place: the plaza in front required. will describe the rehabilitation plan visit the exhibition "Dinosaurs in of the Faculty of Aerospace that was implemented on Jaffa the Streets" that is part of the Social Engineering, Neve Sha'anan campus 24 Road in 2014 as part of the overall Bauhaus events being held at Mercaz A tour led by the architect Aurelia Preservation With a Small "P" revitalization of the Lower City Siach, which is located in the former Kirmayer (the former campus Meeting place: the entrance to (carried out by the Israel Government Workers House. The exhibition deals architect) at the first building Talpiot Market when coming from Tourist Corporation and the Haifa with the documentation relating to constructed on the Technion campus the direction of Syrkin St. Municipality). She will also talk about these two lost movie theaters. in 1954. During the 90-minute tour, An active dialog about 'sustainable the development surge that the area The tour and the exhibition are based she will talk about Prof. Yohanan preservation' and what constitutes is experiencing as a result of the on academic research outcomes of Ratner, the architect who designed 'an act of preservation.' Held as part project. The hourlong tour will end the course “Sites and Archives: Build the building, and the developments of a tour of the iconic Talpiot Market at the intersection of Jaffa Road and Heritage Preservation." leading up to its construction. building, the discussion topics Habankim Street. Friday, November 29, 14:00 Kirmayer will also describe how the will include demolition, neglect, Friday, November 29, 12:00 Open tour. Reservations not Faculty of Aerospace Engineering was ideological, social and economic Open tour. Reservations not required. opened by Prof. Sydney Goldstein changes, values and challenges. One required. and will share the story of the late of the questions that will be raised 21 student, Neev-Ya Durban. is what should be preserved and 26 Morphological Roofs Friday, November 29, 9:00 for who. The architect and Technion The Big Flour Mills Meeting place: the entrance to the Open tour. Reservations not and Bezalel lecturer, Dalia Nachman 40 Hativat Golani St. (parking is Danziger Mechanical Engineering required. Farchi, and the architect, Noa Gantz, available inside the compound) Building, Neve Sha'anan campus who will lead the tour, will also talk Architect: the engineer Arpad Gut, This odd and pioneering building about an interdisciplinary course that 1922 that houses the Danziger labs is no was offered at the Technion, which An opportunity to become less avant-garde and controversial dealt with the restoration of the acquainted with the imposing today than it was when it was built structure and its outcomes. structure of the mills that are still

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in operation today and are among will point out the works that have in the heart of the historic center of Friday, November 29, 9:00, 10:00 and the last remnants of the industrial- survived. She will talk about their the Hadar neighborhood, surrounded 11:00, Saturday, November 30, 10:00, agricultural zone established next to importance and characteristics, the by Bauhaus buildings. The 90-minute 11:00 and 12:00 Haifa Port during the British Mandate artists who created them, the issues workshop is suitable for both 6 open tours for the first 25 people period. The mills were built by Baron surrounding their restoration, and beginners and more advanced in line. Reservations not required. Rothschild and were the first in the more. The two-hour tour will end drawers. Participants should come country to be powered by steam. on the corner of Herzl Street and equipped with drawing tools, 31 To make loading and unloading the Barzilay Street, next to Giborim sketching paper and a hard surface The Templer Community House and flour an easier task, a train track ran Bridge. / sketchbook. It is also advisable to Templer School directly into the yard. The structure Saturday, November 30, 10:00 bring a hat and a folding chair. 11 Ben Gurion Blvd. was designed by the Hungarian Advance reservations required; the Thursday, November 28, 14:00 Years of construction: 1869 and Jewish engineer, Arpad Gut, who was tour is limited to 30 participants. Open workshop. Reservations not 1902; Restoration and conversion of one of the leading architects of his required. the buildings into a museum: the time and an expert on reinforced 28 architect Dagan Mochly, 2004 concrete. Apart from the mills, he Placemaking: The Case of HaNadiv 30 Guided tours of the compound also designed a number of water Boulevard The House in Bat Galim that currently houses the Haifa towers, bridges and Tel Aviv's sewer Meeting place: 2 HaNadiv Blvd., at 41 HaSharon St., Bat Galim City Museum and includes two system. Motifs reminiscent of the the beginning of the boulevard Architect: Levav Shachar, 2017 Templer buildings: the community walls of Jerusalem are incorporated HaNadiv Boulevard is an old Tours with the architect, Levav house – the first Templer building in the structure's windows and Haifa street lined with elegant Shachar, at a building that he constructed in the country – and capitals. International Style buildings. The developed and designed in Bat Galim, the Templer school. The tours will Baby carriages cannot be brought 45-minute tours will be led by the which illustrates the neighborhood's recount the story of the Templer into the compound. Children under landscape architect Sivan Ornai renewal potential. He will explain community in Haifa and the changes the age of 13 will be allowed to from the David Aljanati landscape why the building stands out that the buildings have undergone participate if closely supervised by a architecture firm, during which thanks to its wood facades and over time: the community house, parent. he will recount the history of the contemporary architectural style, originally built in 1869 as a gathering Friday, November 29, 9:30 and 11:00 boulevard and describe the facelift it and will also share his experiences place, also served as a German school 2 open tours for the first 20 people underwent in 2013. He will talk about from the design and construction for the members of the Templer in line. Reservations not required. the challenges that the planners stages. In addition, Shachar will talk Society (who came to the country faced, which included restoring the about the residential living approach in the 19th century out of a belief 27 boulevard to pedestrians, creating that was adopted there, which aims that settling here would lead to the Exterior Wall Art in Haifa places for relaxation and fun, to create a community within a city world's redemption), and the school Meeting place: 1 Khuri St., (next to introducing regulated parking areas, apartment building through use of that was built in the compound in the Solel Boneh building) and upgrading infrastructures. the common areas. He will also point 1902 to accommodate the growing A tour with Dr. Ora Gazit, which will Friday, November 29, 16:00 out some unusual choices that were community. trace the exterior wall art scene that Saturday, November 30, 16:00 incorporated in the project, which On Friday at 11:00, there will be a tour flourished in Haifa in the mid-20th 2 open tours. Reservations not is founded on an ideology of ethical of the exhibition currently on display: century and left dozens of works required. real estate development. Those "Demolition Party: From Public of art throughout the city. The choices include the open stairwell, Housing to Residential Tower." It will monumental wall art works on public 29 shared gardening and irrigation be led by the curator, Hadas Shadar. buildings had formal and ideological Getting a Sense of Bauhaus: A systems, and the connection Thursday, November 28, foundations and were used, among Drawing Workshop between the large-windowed 16:00 and 17:00, other things, to convey messages in Meeting place: Binyamin Garden on building and the street. During the Friday, November 29, 11:00, Saturday, the public space of the workers' city. Nordau St., next to the fountain (in 45-minute tours, participants will November 30, 11:00 and 12:00 The works are still considered urban case of rain, the workshop will be be shown some of the apartments 5 open tours for the first 30 people assets that have social, cultural, held at HaPina Café located on 43 as well as the penthouse. Use of the in line. Reservations not required. artistic and historical value. The tour Massada St.) elevator will be restricted to persons will pass through the streets of the An open urban drawing workshop led with disabilities. Hadar neighborhood, where Gazit by the architect Aya Auerbach - held

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32 century into a 'relaxation area' in 35 hourlong tour, he will also point Struck House the 1920's and 1930's, and from that Urban Renewal at Talpiot Market out the architectural features of the Hermann Struck Museum, 23 into a garden city in the 1940's. They Meeting place: Kanafeh Talpiot neighborhood, which was designed Arlozorov St., Hadar HaCarmel will also talk about the landscaping on 29 Syrkin St. (next to the as a "garden city" by Richard Architect: Alexander Baerwald, 1924 in the neighborhood, which was municipal parking lot in the middle Kaufmann in the 1930's. Mention will An opportunity to become designed by the architect Adolf of the market) also be made of the struggle led acquainted with the home Rading in 1941. Throughout the tour, Talpiot Market has been undergoing by the neighborhood's residents to of Hermann Struck - a highly Friedman Raudnitz and Esterlis, a fascinating urban renewal process preserve the house on 8 Noga Street. accomplished printmaking artist who prepared the preservation in recent years, part of which has Friday, November 29, 12:00 who worked in Germany and pre- survey for the neighborhood, will resulted in the opening of various Open tour. Reservations not State Israel in the first half of the point out buildings, boulevards restaurants and eateries in the required. 20th century. The house, built in an and compounds that have kept vicinity. This 90-minute tour with eclectic style, served as Struck's their original character, while Naama Sobol, who is engaged in 37 private residence and studio. It explaining the challenge inherent in culinary and culture research and In the Footsteps of Two Forgotten currently houses the Hermann Struck preserving them in face of real estate also owns the "Tarbut Achila" (Eating Planners: Benjamin Orell and Museum, which is devoted to his development pressures. The two- Culture) blog, will describe the Yehezkel Zohar works and also features changing hour tour, which will end at 5 Keller renewal process taking place at the Meeting place: 26 HaNevi'im St., on etching exhibitions. The displays Street, includes an uphill walk on the market. She will do so through a the plaza at the museum include original boulevard. culinary lens that includes meeting Benjamin Orell and the engineer furniture that belonged to Struck, Saturday, November 30, 10:00 with key people involved in the Yehezkel Zohar, who designed dozens some of his personal belongings, and Advance reservations required; the food and restaurant industry in the of International Style buildings in the original printmaking machine tour is limited to 30 participants. area as well as visits at business Haifa during the British Mandate that still works after being repaired The firm's website: establishments and spaces that have period, left a significant mark on the and restored. The tours will be led by https://mshimur.co.il been opened there. Hadar neighborhood. This tour with the museum's education coordinator, Friday, November 29, 13:00 the architect Omri Zilka – a lecturer Anna Yamlina. 34 Advance reservations required; the and owner of the "Pinat Rehov" blog Thursday, November 28, The Archive tour is limited to 35 participants. that deals with architecture, design 17:00 and 18:00 Haifa City Archive, 2 Gottlieb Link to the Tarbut Achila blog: and urbanism in Haifa – will point Friday, November 29, Schumacher St. out buildings that were designed by 11:00 and 12:00 A special opportunity to visit the 36 Orell and Zohar and trace the work 4 open tours for the first 30 people Haifa City Archive. During these The House on 8 Noga Street of these two important planners, in line. Reservations not required. hourlong sessions led by Dr. Shuli 8 Noga St., Carmelia which has been forgotten by history. Linder Yarkony, the archive's director Architect: Leopold Krakauer, 1938 The 90-minute tour will end on the 33 of community relations, participants This tour in Carmelia with the corner of Arlozorov Street and Herzl Carmelhim and the Bauhaus will be shown some of the treasures preservation architect Giora Solar Street. Meeting place: Manya Shochat stored in the archive, including will focus on the house on 8 Noga Thursday, November 28, 14:00 Garden, next to the fountain minutes of City Council meetings, Street – the oldest one in the steet. Open tour. Reservations not A tour with the preservation architect historical documents and blueprints Solar will talk about the history of required. Tal Friedman Raudnitz, from the firm of iconic Bauhaus buildings in Haifa. the house, which was designed Ma'ase Shimur, and the preservation Thursday, November 28, 13:00 and by Leopold Krakauer, one of the 38 architect, Anat Esterlis. They will 14:30 most important International Style The Carmelite Monastery and focus on the Haifa Bauhaus as well as Advance reservations required; architects who started working in Mendelsohn Building the German design heritage found each of the 2 sessions is limited to 15 the country in the mid-1920's. Solar Meeting place: on the plaza in front in the Carmelheim neighborhood, participants. will present materials from the of the monastery, to the right of which was designed by Richard preliminary documentation file the main entrance to the Rambam Kaufmann in 1923. They will describe that he prepared for the building, Health Care Campus, 8 HaAliyah how the design of the neighborhood including historical photographs HaShniyah St. evolved from a German Templer and documents. During the An opportunity to learn about colony at the beginning of the 20th

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the history of two buildings on the tour will begin with a visit at a added to the building in 1962, where Technion in Haifa, which paved the the Rambam Health Care Campus private home on Bar Giora Street and the apartment is situated. It consists way for other academic institutions that were designated historical continue from there to Binyamin of four rooms that extend across two established in pre-State Israel as well landmarks: the Carmelite monastery Garden – the first public garden levels, but its sense of spaciousness as technology, vocational and marine that was designed in 1894 by the established in pre-State Israel (1923). does not reveal its actual size – which education, the pioneer of Jewish architect and nun, Marie de la Croix, The rest of the route will include totals only 70 m2. The new layout of settlement in Hadar HaCarmel, and and the Mendelsohn Building that Jerusalem Street, Madatech, Ahad the apartment, made two years ago, one of the harbingers of the Land was designed by the architect, Erich Ha'am Street and the skyscraper took into account the view of Haifa of Israel architectural style that was Mendelsohn, and completed in 1938. currently under construction there, Bay that can be seen from it. The advanced by the architect, Alexander The tour will be led by Dr. Zvi Ben ending at HaNevi'im Square. design also facilitates the display of Baerwald. Yishai, the former deputy director Friday, November 29, 10:00 the owners' diverse collections. The tour will be led by the of the Rambam Health Care Campus, Open tour. Reservations not Thursday, November 28, 10:00-12:00 conservation architect, Amir during which he will recount required. Friday, November 29, 17:00-19:00 Freundlich, who prepared the the history of the monastery, its Saturday, November 30, 10:00-12:00 restoration appendix for the site – construction and restoration. He 40 Open house. Reservations not which is one of Haifa's important will point out some unique features The Bohemian Eclectic One required. built heritage assets and symbols. of the structure (which is built out 18 Henrietta Szold St., 1st floor, During the tour, Freundlich will of 20,000 stones without any iron Carmel 42 describe how the construction and rods) and its cellar, whose design Interior design: Vered Fichmann, The Schreuer Residence institutions evolved at one of the is reminiscent of the Knights Halls 2014 17A Tsafririm St., Carmel city's most interesting architectural in Akko and was used as a well. Ben A visit at an apartment in a 1960's A glimpse of an apartment located in compounds for more than 100 years. Yishai will also share the story about building that was renovated by the a row house built in 1937 by Rassco (a He will also talk about its role in the the nuns who lived there. Tour interior designer for use by her rural and urban settlement company history of Zionist settlement in pre- participants will be able to enter family. Its eclectic and bohemian founded by the Jewish Agency). State Israel at the beginning of the some parts of the building. design incorporates vintage furniture The building was one of Rassco's 20th century. The second part of the hourlong and artifacts that were bought at flea first projects on the Carmel and The 90-minute tour route will cross tour will focus on the Mendelsohn markets around the world. The items was intended for middle-class new the compound from top to bottom, Building – the only government were either inherited from family immigrants, and in particular for new passing between two buildings that hospital that was built by the British members and friends or found immigrants from Germany of Polish no longer exist – the water tower in Palestine and one of the iconic on the street and restored by the origin. Although the apartment at the intersection of Masada St. Bauhaus structures in the city. apartment owners. was renovated in 1995, the original and Balfour St., and the guardhouse Thursday, November 28, 9:00 Friday, November 29, 11:00-14:00 Terrazzo staircase and railing were at the intersection of Herzl St. and Open tour. Reservations not Saturday, November 30, 11:00-14:00 left untouched, as were various Shmaryahu Levin St., where the tour required. Open house. Reservations not carpentry elements and the windows. will end. required. Saturday, November 30, 11:00-17:00 Saturday, November 30, 9:00 39 Open house. Reservations not Advance reservations required; the The Battle Over the Space 41 required. tour is limited to 20 participants. Meeting place: the intersection of A Duplex in Upper Hadar Rashi St. and Bar Giora St., across 51A Hess St., Hadar 43 44 from 45 Bar Giora St. Interior design: Merav Sade, 2017 Between the Water Tower and the An International Journey A short journey between privately- An open house at an apartment in Guardhouse Meeting place: Haifa Auditorium owned and public spaces in the a 1945 building, located on a street Meeting place: the corner of 1 Plaza, 138 HaNassi Blvd., Merkaz Hadar neighborhood, which will shed lined with buildings from the 1940's Massada St. and Balfour St., Hadar HaCarmel (Carmel Center) light on the processes that we as a to 1960's (including International The Technion-Hadar compound, The heyday of the modernist society have experienced over the Style buildings). The street is also whose cornerstone was laid in International Style – in the 1930's years as well as the space we live in. characterized by steps that lead up to 1912, currently contains a cluster and 1940's – was a period in which Led by the architect, town planner the Carmel and descend to the Lower of buildings and institutions that the city experienced widespread and social activist, Amir Dominitz, City. Another floor and roof were provide physical proof of what development. During those existed in the past: the Hebrew years, Haifa expanded and new

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neighborhoods in Merkaz HaCarmel, 45 architect Saadia Mandel tours of Heinrich Heine Square and Hadar and Bat Galim became part of The Skatepark Tours led by the preservation its vicinity. He will recount the history the city. Later on, in the 1950's and Haifa Skatepark, Hecht Park architect, Farah Goldman, at the of the square and the Lev HaCarmel 1960's, the spaces between those Design: Avi Luzia in collaboration Haifa "A" power plant and Iraq building situated in the middle of it – neighborhoods also filled up with with the Greenstein Har Gil Petroleum Company (IPC) compounds which is one of the most prominent modernist buildings. Landscape Architecture firm, 2016 – an ensemble of buildings that International Style icons in Haifa. This unusual 7-hour tour will be led Come and hear the story behind illustrates modern architecture at The building, which designed by the by the geographer and architect Guy the establishment of the Haifa its best, as well as a harmonious architect Moshe Heth, was opened Shachar, who heads the Projects Unit Skatepark, which extends across an design of production, operations and in 1938. During the tours, Mandel will at the Haifa Municipality's Building area of 1,600 m2 and includes high management facilities surrounded talk about the people who owned and Sites Conservation Department. ramps, tracks for professionals, by spacious gardens. land in the square and how and why The 10-kilometer route will focus and surfaces that simulate urban During the tours, Goldman will the water tower was erected. He will on Haifa's Bauhaus and modernist streets and situations. The 30-minute explain how Pinhas Rutenberg, also touch on questions pertaining to architecture from two perspectives: sessions will be led by Avi Luzia, a who founded the Israel Electric preservation as opposed to property the chronological-stylistic professional skateboarder who has Corporation, spearheaded the design as well as the names that were perspective – ranging from the 1930's won international competitions of the compound. It combines given to the neighborhood's streets to the 1970's - and the geographical and specializes in the design of impressive engineered designs made and gardens. perspective – from Mount Carmel skateparks, and was one of the of concrete with modern "white" Friday, November 29, 9:30 to the sea. Tour participants will designers of this project. He will architecture in the huge and high- Saturday, November 30, 9:30 have a rare opportunity to become describe the stages of designing standard industrial facilities, whose 2 open tours. Reservations not familiar with Haifa and its landscapes the park as well as the technologies construction was carried out by the required. as well as its rich array of modernist that were used in its construction Solel Boneh. buildings. Shachar will point out (that were handmade, such as cast The tours will also include a visit 48 different types of buildings: some sculptures). at the restored office of Pinhas The Glass House apartment buildings, International Saturday, November 30, 12:00, 12:30, Rutenberg, where a background 21 Bar Giora St., Hadar HaCarmel Style buildings, modernist office 13:30 and 14:00 lecture will be delivered and Architect: Theodor Menkes, 1938 buildings, a modernist city square 4 open sessions. Reservations not participants will hear about the An opportunity to become and examples of the best row houses required. past, present and future story of the acquainted with one of the most in the city, located in Ramat Hadar, compound and buildings. They will intriguing avant-garde architecture Kiryat Eliyahu and Bat Galim. 46 also be shown original documents buildings in the city. It was built The tour will start at the Haifa The Israel Electric Corporation's Haifa from the company's archive. by the real estate developer, Max Auditorium Plaza and include "A" Power Plant Participants must wear closed-back Levine, and designed by the virtuosic Merkaz HaCarmel, Ramat Hadar, Haifa Power Plant, Tovim St., Shemen shoes and be over the age of 16. architect, Theodor Menkes, for Hadar HaCarmel, the Lower City, Beach. The tours will leave from Entry into the compound is discharged British soldiers. The Kiryat Eliyahu, Kiryat Eliezer and Bat the cafeteria building. Parking contingent on presenting an ID. aim was to provide them with "an Galim, ending at the Quiet Beach is available at the power plant Friday, November 29, 11:00 and 12:30 excellent urban quality of life." in Bat Galim. compound. Advance reservations required; Cutting-edge technologies were Throughout the day, updates will Architects: Clifford Holliday and each of the 2 tours is limited to 40 incorporated in the 14 small, 53 be provided on the Open House engineers and architects from the participants. m2 housing units in the building, Weekend Facebook page, where Electric Company's technical design including a garbage chute, central visitors can track where the tour office, 1934 Documentation and 47 heating system, swimming pool and group is at any given time and design of the rehabilitation of the The History of Heinrich Heine Square tennis court on the roof! The building join them at different spots along Haifa "A" buildings and compound: Meeting place: next to the fish pond also boasts of groundbreaking the route. the Israel Electric Corporation's in Shmuel HaCohen Garden architectural elements, such as Saturday, November 30, 9:00-16:00 Engineering Design Division, 2013. Ron Mandel, who owns the blog walls made of glass bricks that were Open tour. Reservations not Preservation architect: Farah "Touring the Streets of Haifa Without designed to bring light into the required. Goldman Architects. Getting Out of Your Chair" and is a apartments, exposed pipes, special Restoration and preservation of member of the Haifa History Society, cooling cabinets, and more. Pinhas Rutenberg's office: the late will lead these short, 30-minute Explanations about the building,

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provided by the social activist and and was later converted into an boutique hotel. The 90-minute tour Architects; Interior design: Malka resident of the Hadar neighborhood, absorption center in the 1990's. Other will conclude with a review of the Architects, 2019 Adi Ozdoba, will be held at 14:00, buildings in Bat Galim include the current state of the compound. Tours with the architects who 14:45 and 15:30. Brigade housing project that was Saturday, November 30, 11:00 designed and restored this building, Following them, participants will be designed in 1947 by the architect, Open tour. Reservations not which was recently converted into a able to see one of the apartments in Adolf Rading, for British soldiers required. boutique hotel, and with the artist, the building where the artist, Yelena who served in World War II, whose Gil Goren, whose works have been Oskotski, lives. modernist style is reminiscent of 51 incorporated in different spaces in Friday, November 29, 14:00-16:30 similar public housing that was built Bauhaus 2015 the hotel. During the tours, they will Open tours and open house. in that period in Austria and Germany 33 HaYarkon St. talk about the original structure and Reservations not required. – as well as "The Project" that was Architects: Gabi Schwartz Architects, its architectural features, as well built in 1994 by Diur U'Pituach and 2015 as the factors that were taken into 49 marks the start of a revised approach A tour with the architect, Gabi consideration during the restoration The History of Public Housing in to public housing in Israel. Schwartz, at a new apartment process and the building's conversion Israel Friday, November 29, 13:00 building that he designed on into a hotel, including the new Meeting place: 71 HaAliyah Saturday, November 30, 13:00 the Carmel. He will explain why construction that was added as HaShniyah St., Bat Galim, in front of 2 open tours. Reservations not its design was inspired by the part of it and the display space for the Absorption Center required. International Style as opposed to contemporary art that will be opened Tours with the architect, Zvi Skolnik, the apartment building design that in 2020. the former manager of the Town 50 is common today in Haifa, with its The tours with the architect Eyal Planning Department at the Haifa Raja Reiss and the Garden Mansions red shingled roofs and stone facing. Malka, who is in charge of the interior Municipality, who was also a member Meeting place: the corner of 9 The unconventional decision to design, will focus on changes in the of the Ministry of Housing staff Yitzhak Sadeh St. and Radak St. design the building in the Haifa interior functions of the building and during the period of the large wave A tour of the "Residences for Rent" Bauhaus style was the outcome of a its interior design. of immigration (1991-1993). He compound that was established by meeting he had with the real estate The tour with the restoration will focus on residential projects the real estate developer, Raja Reiss, developer, Ran Margalit. They sought architect, Dagan Mochly, will also consisting of at least 200 housing in 1936 and designed by the leading to reacquaint the public discourse include a brief review of the history units (public housing) that are built Lebanese architect of the period – and the city's landscape with the of the German Colony. on Israel Land Authority property, Antoine Tabet. prominent qualities of the Bauhaus The tours with the artist, Gil Goren, and discuss whether the state has an The architect and researcher, Adeeb style, which Haifa is replete with. will spotlight the works of art that obligation to provide its citizens with Daoud Naccache, who researched They also wanted to encourage the were incorporated in the hotel. a place to live. He will also describe the history of the compound while restoration of Bauhaus buildings The duration of all the tours will be the ideological and social changes studying at the Technion, will in the city and have an impact on about 30 minutes. that have occurred in Israel regarding be leading this tour. He will talk the stylistic choices made in new Thursday, November 28th, 13:00 - a this matter. about the architectural style that buildings, such as choosing plaster tour with the architect, Eyal Malka, During the tours, Skolnik will review characterizes the buildings, which he rather than stone facing. who is in charge of the interior the history of public housing in defines as "Levantine modernism" Saturday, November 30, 11:00 design; 13:45 - a tour with the artist, the country as seen through a – a blend of Eastern and Western Advance reservations required; the Gil Goren, dealing with the works of set of buildings in the Bat Galim styles that makes use, among other tour is limited to 35 participants. art in the hotel. neighborhood, which were things, of modernist architectural Friday, November 29th, 10:00 – a constructed in different periods and elements (such as horizontal "visors") 52 tour with the restoration architect, represent different approaches to for decorative and climatic purposes. The Schumacher Hotel Dagan Mochly, 13:00 - a tour with the public housing. One of them was Naccache will also recount the story 25 Lohamei HaGeta'ot, German architect, Eyal Malka, who is in charge the first immigrants' house in the behind the construction of the Colony (the tours will leave from the of the interior design; 13:45 - a tour country, which was designed by an buildings, which were sold to the entrance to the hotel) with the artist, Gil Goren, dealing engineer named Vamos and built highest bidders – whether senior Original architects: Benjamin with the works of art in the hotel. in 1923 for the British Mandatory British Mandate clerks, employees Orell and Yehezkel Zohar, 1933; Saturday, November 30th, 11:00 - a Government. It underwent changes of the Iraq Petroleum Company Architecture and restoration: Dagan tour with the architect, Eyal Malka, in the 1940's by the Jewish Agency (IPC), foreign consulates, and even a Mochly and Eli Pinto, Mochly-Eldar who is in charge of the interior

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design; 11:45 - a tour with the artist, them and make them functional architectural and stylistic features 58 Gil Goren, dealing with the works of again, and what else can be done. of his work, which was influenced Cosmopolitan on the Carmel art in the hotel. The 90-minute tour does not include by the spirit of the modern period Meeting place: 23 HaTishbi St. 7 open tours for the first 20 people entry to the buildings and will end at that underscored the totality of A tour with the preservation in line. Reservations not required. Talpiot Market. the building down to the smallest architect, Noa Schek, a resident of the Friday, November 29, 9:00 detail. The tour will begin at Talpiot neighborhood who conducted the 53 Open tour. Reservations not Market, which Gerstel designed preservation survey for the French What Happened to Hadar? required. and where the exhibition "Talpiot Carmel and Ramat HaTishbi on behalf Meeting place: the corner of 1 Market: Contemporary Art in an of the Council for Conservation of Nordau St. and Balfour St. 55 Iconic Structure" is currently on Heritage Sites in Israel. The tour Most of Hadar HaCarmel, which was Demolition Party: From Public display, and continue from there to will focus on prominent buildings built in the 1920's, was designed Housing to Residential Tower other public buildings he designed, in the neighborhood, the features according to Richard Kaufmann's Haifa City Museum, 11 Ben Gurion including Industry House, and to of the International Style found on 'garden city' plan made by Richard Ave. some apartment buildings. the French Carmel, and the local Kaufmann. It was designed, built and, This tour of the exhibition The tour will be led by the architects appearance of the Arab International for a period of time, also functioned “Demolition Party: From Public Shira Ben Ezra and Hanan Peretz. Style. The tour route will include as an upscale neighborhood that Housing to Residential Tower,” Friday, November 29, 13:30 a number of streets – HaTishbi, was meant to improve the living which is currently on display at the Open tour. Reservations not Ovadia, and Beit El, HaYovel and conditions of Haifa's Jewish residents. Haifa City Museum, will be led by required. Tchernikovsy, as well as homes that This tour with Yevgeny Kobliv, who the curator and architect, Dr. Hadas were designed by various architects researches Haifa's history, will review Shadar. 57 for homeowners from different the historical processes and their The exhibition deals with public Involving the Community in the populations and ethnic groups, which impact on the conditions in the housing complexes that were Planning are a reflection of Mandatory Haifa's neighborhood, and will try to explain torn down in order to put up new Tsipora Zeid St., at the entrance to cosmopolitan diversity. how Hadar reached its current state. residential towers and the values that the garden Friday, November 29, 14:00 He will also talk about the changes were lost in the process: equality, For many years, the Tsipora Zeid Open tour. Reservations not that the neighborhood is undergoing modesty, the State’s commitment Garden, located in the heart of required. today. to provide its citizens with a place to the Hadar neighborhood, served The 90-minute tour will be live, and communality, which have as a pass-through garden with 59 conducted in Russian. been replaced by financial gain, large slopes. During this tour, the The Underground Emergency Friday, November 29, 14:00 individualism and an achievement architects Orna Ben Ziony and Liat Hospital Open tour. Reservations not orientation. During the hourlong Oren will talk about the efforts Meeting place: Greidinger Hall, required. tour and lecture, Shadar will raise a currently underway to rehabilitate Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital, number of questions: does public and revamp the garden. The works, Building 15, ground floor 54 housing in Israel have values, are carried out at the initiative of the Architects: Arad Sharon, Sharon Gur – Under the Radar those values original, and if they are Haifa Municipality, aim to meet the Ze'ev Sharon Architects, 2014 Meeting place: 33 Jerusalem St., at – what are they. needs of the population living in the An opportunity to become the entrance to Binyamin Garden Friday, November 29, 11:00 neighborhood that includes a large acquainted with the emergency There are many abandoned Open tour for the first 30 number of children. Ben Ziony and hospital at the Rambam Health Care buildings in the Hadar people in line. Oren will describe how the plans Campus – the largest facility of its neighborhood. are dealing with the challenging kind in the world – which extends This tour led by Vitali Dubov-Dotan, 56 topography and how the various across an area of three levels that an urban economics researcher who Gerstel in Great Detail local communities living nearby are can accommodate up to 2,000 beds specializes in abandoned buildings Meeting place: the corner of Syrkin involved in the process. during a state of emergency. and also founded the Abandoned St. and Naftali Herz Imber St. Friday, November 29, 13:00 The architect, Arad Sharon, will Buildings in Haifa Facebook page, will A tour that will trace the works of Open tour. Reservations not deliver a lecture about the hospital, point out those buildings, explain the the Viennese-Haifa architect, Moshe required. followed by a tour he will lead. He reasons for their condition, describe Gerstel, who came to the country in will explain how the underground what is being done to repopulate the 1930's. The tour will focus on the

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hospital can continue functioning and is open to the public. An opportunity to become 64 even if cut off from the outside Thursday, November 28, 9:00-17:30 acquainted with the old Technion The Offices of General Electric world for 72 hours, while providing Advance registration is required: building, which since 1983 has served HealthCare protection from conventional https://tinyurl.com/wk4gvd2 as a science museum for children, Meeting place: 1 Netiv HaOr St., and unconventional attacks. In and discover its architectural Matam Hi-Tech and Business Park peacetime, the facility serves as a 61 qualities. These 50-minute tours with Building architect: Moshe Tzur 60,000 m2 parking lot (with 1,500 Home and Preschool the architect, Amos Wachman, will Architects; Office design: Setter parking spots). The medical gas Meeting place: Intel parking lot, talk about the history of the building Architects; Lighting design: Michal supply lines that are built into the Haifa (Waze), at the entrance to the and its importance to the annals of Kantor, 2017 walls will be activated during a preschool Haifa, to Israeli architecture and to An opportunity to visit the offices state of emergency, as will filters Architects: Orna Freifeld Best, Lital the history of Zionism. Wachman will of General Electric HealthCare that protect against chemical and Szmuk Fabian, Yinon Levi Altshul and point out the renovation works and and hear about the main design biological attacks and systems that Yael Margalit, 2019 the various additions that were made considerations from the project's supply secure water and fuel. A tour of Na'amat's new daycare to the building in recent years: the lead designer, Bella Ventura, The second part of the tour will centers and preschools at the Matam construction of the Fab-Lab complex from Setter Architects, and from be devoted to the Ruth Rappaport Hi-Tech and Business Park, led by in the old workshop facility, the Michal Kantor, who designed the Children's Hospital. the architect Yinon Levi Altshul, a renovation of the ground floor of the lighting in the offices. During the Saturday, November 30, 11:00 member of the project's planning main building and new elevator, the 45-minute tours, they will also talk Advance reservations required; the team. During the 45-minute tour, discovery of the roof of the cistern about the design choices that were tour is limited to 50 participants. he will talk about out the preschools – the old well – in the north garden, incorporated in the offices and that were built for the children and more. how the lighting is meant to draw 60 of Matam employees, which were Saturday, November 30, 13:30 and attention to the architectural design, Bauhaus on the Carmel – A designed like a cluster of houses in 14:30 while at the same time creating a Symposium order to create a sense of home for Advance reservations required; lighting hierarchy and a distinction Haifa City Hall, 14 Hasan Shuqri St. the children that is comparable to each of the 2 tours is limited to 50 between the different spaces, An international symposium of the the size of a regular home, where participants. their respective roles and the user Avie and Sarah Arenson Built Heritage they can enjoy multiple indoor- experience. Research Center at the Technion's outdoor connections: yards and 63 The project won design awards at Faculty of Architecture and Town balconies with trees and vegetation. The Historic Archive at the Technion international competitions. Planning, held in cooperation The homes are linked together by Meeting place: the entrance to the Friday, November 29, 10:00 with the Haifa Municipality. The a main corridor that has lockers, Sego Building, Technion campus Open tour. Reservations not symposium will bring together benches and windows that look out A guided session with the archivist, required. speakers from Germany, Austria on the vegetation in the yards. Itay Keren, following the completion Setter Architects website: and Israel, who will present their Friday, November 29th, 13:00 of a large-scale digitization project, https://www.setter.co.il/ researches on the German and Open tour. Reservations not which made thousands of documents Michal Kantor's website: Austrian modernisms and discuss the required. and photographs from the Technion's http://www.mk-lightingdesign.com/ location of Haifa at the crossroads of historic archive available on the colonial, Central European and Middle 62 Internet. The materials recount the 65 Eastern influences on architects The MadaTech Building Technion's story through a historical Life Sciences Park and planners working in Mandate Meeting place: the entrance to lens. During the tour, participants Meeting place: the lobby of the Life Palestine, in general, and in Haifa, in MadaTech, 25 Shmaryahu Levin St, will be shown some of the original Sciences Building, Matam Hi-Tech particular. Hadar documents. and Business Park The symposium is being held with Architect: Alexander Baerwald, Friday, November 29, 11:00 Architect: Moshe Tzur Architects, 2017 the support of Anhalt University of 1912: Design of the science park Advance reservations required; the A tour at the first of five buildings Applied Sciences, the Bauhaus Dessau and outdoor areas: Mayslits Kassif tour is limited to 20 participants. that are scheduled to open at the Foundation and the Austrian Cultural Architects, 2011; Building renovation Life Sciences Park in Matam. During Forum. and added wings: Wachman the tour, Gennady Agranovich The conference will be held in English Architects, 2017 from Moshe Tzur Architects will

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talk about the first building, which 67 68 This 90-minute tour with Dafna extends across an area 13,100 m2, the The Stadium The Bridge Berger Shperling – who guided principles that guided its design and Meeting place: Maccabi Haifa box Meeting place: Neve Sha'anan Gate, at and accompanied the renovation of how it will connect with the other office, Sammy Ofer Stadium the entrance to the Technion building facades under the urban planned buildings. The 45-minute Architects: KSS Architects (UK) and Architects: Schwartz Besnosoff renewal project in the Lower City tour will begin in the lobby of the Mansfeld-Kehat Architects, 2014 Architects, 2019 and participated in the preservation building, continue from there to the Guided tours at the largest football Come and see the new bridge at survey conducted there – will focus floor where the offices are located, (soccer) stadium in the city – and one the entrance to the Technion – the on buildings and compounds in the and end outside the building with of Haifa's symbols – which includes Technion Gates Project – that was Lower City where there is a clear gap an explanation about its shell and 30,000 original seats, sky boxes and designed for the purpose of linking between the vision and the physical planned future additions. boxes for fans. During the tours, the Technion with the city. The new development of the urban fabric. Friday, November 29, 9:00 participants will hear about the bridge connects two promenades – She will try and answer the following Open tour. Reservations not European football stadium design the Ziloni promenade and the future questions: What would Haifa look required. standards that pertain to the comfort science promenade - and merges like if they had had more time to of spectators, players and referees, them into a single promenade that fulfill their architectural vision in its 66 the angle from which the game starts at the Ziv Center and ends at entirety? How is the British vision Matam West should be watched, the quality of the Senate Square. It has consequently manifest today and what does the Meeting place: the entrance to the seats and how far the last rows of the restored the original function of future hold for the area? Matam West Building, about 100 bleachers should be from the field, Senate Square as the main square Saturday, November 30, 11:00 meters from the front gate accessibility, and even the nature of on campus that can host farmers' Open tour. Reservations not Architect: Moshe Tzur Architects, 2016 the concession stands – and how all markets, exhibitions and various required. The architect Gennady Agranovich these standards have been applied at events. During the tour, the architect, from Moshe Tzur Architects leads Sammy Ofer Stadium. Gabi Schwartz, will describe how this tour of a building located at The tours, led by the architects Yuli the topography was utilized for the the southern gateway to Haifa next Wittenberg and Haim Kehat from benefit of the design. He will also talk to the Coastal Road. It belongs to Mansfeld-Kehat Architects, will also about the automated vehicle entry the first row of buildings that mark include the state-of-the art locker system that was incorporated in the the boundary of the Matam Hi-Tech rooms, the referees' rooms, control bridge, which improves the safety and Business Park and directly room and the press box. Participants of pedestrians and bike riders and face the Mediterranean. During the will also hear about the eco-friendly shortens the vehicles' waiting times. tour, Agranovich will talk about systems that have been installed in Friday, November 29, 9:00 the features of the building, which the stadium, which include water Open tour. Reservations not extends across an area of about recycling, acoustic coating beneath required. 29,400 m2, is situated above a 4,700 the roofing material, floodlights m2 underground parking lot, and mounted on the roof that illuminate 69 offers long-term office rentals to the grass and do not disrupt the The British Vision hi-tech companies. He will describe environment, a noise-reduction, Meeting place: the bus stop at the limitations of the lot and the decentralized public address system, the entrance to the Sail Tower height restrictions that dictated the and more. (The Rocket) when coming from construction of a long and narrow Thursday, November 28, 13:00 and Ha'atzmaut Rd. building, as well as the design 15:00 The British conquered Haifa from the considerations that were taken into Advance reservations required; Ottomans 101 years ago. When part account. each of the 2 tours is limited to 50 of the Ottoman Empire, the city was The building won the Design Award participants. relatively peripheral. But within a for 2016. period of three decades, the British Thursday, November 28, 11:30 turned it into a modern city – a Open tour. Reservations not gateway to the Middle East – with required. regional strategic importance.

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of Bet Hapoalim, The Worker's House, the building, has a constitutive place in BET HAPOALIM modern Israeli architecture. Just as Baerwald and Ratner are separate but complementary, so were the institutional buildings that they designed. The mating of Bet Hapoalim and the (WORKERS’ HOUSE): Technion spurred growth in the neighborhood and throughout Haifa. Here the question of the source of Hadar Hacarmel’s vitality finds its answer. Three focal “NEW PERTINENCE” public locations rest at the base of the plan for the neighborhood (produced by Richard Kauffmann pursuant to a memorandum by the Scots town planner When Bet Hapoalim was opened in Patrick Geddes). Apart from the two buildings mentioned thus far, the public 2017, the Hadar Hacarmel quarter space of Benjamin Park and Bet Ha’am deserves mention. Each of these three boasted two public buildings: public places in Hadar Hacarmel has its own character and meaning. It was the Technion, at the heart of the the cooperative web that took shape among these institutions, however— public space in the neighborhood’s combined with a city center comprised of commerce, offices, and public northwestern sector, and Bet buildings—that poured effervescent life into the neighborhood and made its Hapoalim, on public land along reputation. its eastern flank. The contrast The pulsating heart of Red Haifa was the complex of Bet Hapoalim, the between the two structures Amphi-Theatre, and the Ora Cinema—the last-mentioned dedicated by the was startling. In the former, Haifa Labor Council in 1935. Included in Bet Hapoalim, among other facilities, Alexander Baerwald’s Technion were the Betenu hall, where people gathered ahead of performances or public loomed: a ponderous, imposing gatherings, a kindergarten for working mothers, a workers’ kitchen, the stone building decorated with Borochov workers’ library, a reading room, a labor exchange, and trade-union Oriental arches and surrounded offices. The Kupat Holim and a dental clinic were set up nearby. by a garden. The latter, Bet Hapoalim—a stucco-faced concrete structure adjacent to a place of gathering that was Construction of Bet Hapoalim exposed to the elements, like a bird’s Dedication of Bet Hapoalim, 1927. Shoshana and Yirmiyahu Rimon It was in 1925 that Haifa first celebrated May Day. Two years later, a crowd nest in the middle of a cityscape. collection, Haifa Municipal Museum gathered for this purpose for the first time at Bet Hapoalim, which was still The architect Yohanan Ratner held under construction. Those years, which saw the construction and dedication of Alexander Baerwald, his experienced Bet Hapoalim and the Amphi-Theatre, were the years of social and economic elder colleague, in enormous esteem. Ratner served Baerwald as his assistant crisis that typified the Fourth Aliya. Many despaired and left the country, e.g., a at the Technion Department of Architecture (which Baerwald headed) and large group of members of the Labor partnered with him in designing the nearby Histadrut Kupat Holim building, Brigade that headed surreptitiously where the trade-union federation’s health-maintenance organization was to Russia. In Haifa, unemployment quartered (dedicated in 1931). Ratner, however, did not believe in reiterating was so bad that about one-third of all a style from the past, as would happen if he mimicked the Technion building, workers, including several leaders of and ruled out the faddish adoption of modern gestures. In fact, he spurned the city’s labor movement, left town stylistic mannerism of every kind and strove for what he called “new on this account. pertinence.” The correct spatial and material approach to take toward the The decision to build Bet Hapoalim surroundings was, he ruled, “localism.” He affirmed abstraction, but only the and the Amphi-Theatre had been kind that strives for attentiveness to the surroundings by applying sensitive made by the Hadar Hacarmel spatial-technology thinking that responds to needs. Bet Hapoalim’s concrete Construction of Bet Hapoalim, the Nachman committee several years earlier and structure was radical in its day. With its clarity, straight lines, and simplicity, it Syrkin Workers’ House, 1926. Courtesy Solel the land for the project was set aside Boneh Archive fit into the surrounding fabric amazingly. Ratner designed the Amphi-Theatre with mathematical calculus, tailoring it to the topography and making its stage visible from everywhere. Departments of architecture inscribe Ratner as a pioneering, innovative, and influential professional. Although hardly a memory remains of the façade

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on May 1, 1923.1 In view of the escalating crisis, construction was expedited Experiencing the era: The workers’ kitchen and on the rationale that the jobless needed the work and that the power of “together,” reflected in the construction of a building that would be “Our sundry activities at Bet Hapoalim Home” (in Hebrew: Betenu), would create something to identify with. Bet By means of contemporary photos and texts, we can experience something Hapoalim and the Amphi-Theatre kept their promise. They became institutions of the spirit and realia of the time. The Bet Hapoalim workers’ kitchen, in the deepest sense of the word—places of encounter and focus for all forms inaugurated in November 1934, was described as “the country’s fanciest of civic activity, far beyond the bureaucratic context of party affiliation. restaurant”—a spacious, airy, and well-lit venue that boasted electric elevators, Work on the building did not stop after the dedication; both the Amphi- walk-in refrigerators, and swanky heating fixtures. The lavishly equipped Theatre and Bet Hapoalim saw continual improvements in ensuing years. In workers’ club and loan fund were about to open just then. “The veteran 1929, wooden seats were affixed to the stone benches. In 1931, a machinery comrades in this city, who still remember the kitchen in the suffocating room was set up on the ground floor and the Amphi-Theatre, which entered confines of a narrow Arab house, and the loan fund wedged into a corner of the the cinema era—first with silent films and then with sound—was rented out Haifa Labor Council’s apartment, greeted the building with tears of joy in their to its management company for half of the week. Scores of posters, writings, eyes and the shehehiyanu blessing [on their lips]” (“Dedication of the Workers’ documents, and photos attest to the activities that went on there: “Hehaluts Kitchen in Haifa,” Davar, November 14, 1934). Street is the living artery of the New City,” a journalist wrote. “It’s a pleasure to Thirteen years later, Yehuda Amichai described a magic moment at the step through the gates [of Bet Hapoalim], which is “truly a center for the public kitchen (November 9, 1947)2: around it.” In other cities, he continued, workers do not visit their labor council At 3:00 p.m., I walked over to the workers’ kitchen. […] Suddenly the sun when jobs are scarce. “[But] that’s not how it is in Haifa—There's something burst through the clouds, casting an abundance of light over each table. Hairs that attracts people to this place" even in the cold of winter, “[when] the movie turned golden, eyeglasses glittered, eyes flashed, and the sky was dark apart projector doesn't move.” […] “The building is very successful” and the active from the slot of azure through which the sun protruded. Suddenly, almost institutions—the library, the reading room (set up in the waiting area), the everyone fell silent. Some stopped eating; others slowed the pace of their Labor Youth club, and the kindergarten for working mothers’ children—are eating distractedly. The sun. the sun. praiseworthy (Yitzhak Yatsiv, “To the Flank of [Mt.] Carmel,” Davar, February 8, 1932). By 1934, a third floor and balconies connecting to the exterior were added to the building. A 1936 photo shows Ratner’s building at its loveliest, before a fourth floor and an entrance colonnade floor were installed (Architect S. Dori, 1949) and before a fifth floor was clapped on and its façade was altered unrecognizably to reconcile it with that of the Haifa Labor Council building (early 1950s).

Bet Hapoalim, 1936. Photo: Fernbach and Fuchs, courtesy Solel Boneh

Haifa workers’ kitchen, 1930s. Courtesy At the workers’ kitchen, 1930s. Unknown Haifa Historical Association photographer. Courtesy Haifa Historical Association 1 To finance the project, the workers held a week of festivities on the Technion grounds. Architect Baerwald submitted a proposal for a massive structure connected by a bridge over 2 Yehuda Amichai, Letter no. 32, November 9, 1947, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Archive. Hehaluts Street. City Hall rejected his proposal and adopted Ratner’s modest alternative instead. The letter was referred to me through the generosity of Nili Scharf Gold, who discovered a bundle (No documentation of Baerwald's plan has been found.) Construction was completed in 1926 and of Amichai’s letters dating to 1947–1948. The story of her discovery is told in her book, Yehuda the Haifa Labor Council, headquartered on Allenby Street until then, moved into the new edifice Amichai, Tsmihato shel Meshorer (And the longings are closed inside me: Yehuda Amichai, the on April 1, 1927. growth of a poet) (Jerusalem: Mineged, 2019).

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Nahman Mirsky addresses an Having a meal at the workers’ kitchen was part of the daily routine of audience, c. 1949. Nahman many Haifa-ites, women and men alike. The facility surfaced in interviews as a Mirsky-Tamir archive. childhood reminiscence that penetrated the senses and the soul, accompanied by the presence of parents who worked near Bet Hapoalim and tied into additional activity at the club or watching a film at the Amphi-Theatre (https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFKXVKhILs0). Bet Hapoalim had a significance that exceeded the sum of its parts. Its matrix of conference rooms, non- bureaucratic activities, and its dining and cultural venues suggested a potential that left imprints. By nourishing its visitors, the workers’ kitchen allowed cultural events that could not be offered elsewhere to take place. As a case in point, the kitchen hosted an annual Passover seder for soldiers and recently arrived immigrant families. The person behind the idea was the director of Every society has the right repertoire of social activities for its time, and the Culture Department of the Haifa Labor Council, Nahman Tamir,3 whose Red Haifa throbbed with a ramified assortment of activities including the inaugural seder, in 1946, accommodated some 250 celebrants. In an undated integrated use of the urban space and the Amphi-Theatre for parades, dancing, press clipping in our archive, the Passover meal, prepared by and served at the and more. Writings, photos, and dozens of posters from Nahman Tamir’s workers’ kitchen, “met all the rules and regulations, and the matzo balls were archive attest to the complexity of the cultural activity that also managed, in just like those at father’s home.” A special haggada (seder text) was prepared its way, to express criticism—for example, through the performative medium for the event and two members of the Habimah Theatre joined up to read from of the public trial.5 One of the posters in the archive documents a public trial “the words of the elders and the more recent about freedom and the struggle that took place at the Amphi-Theatre at 8:00 p.m. on January 25, 1946, on to attain it.”4 the topic of “The Unorganized Worker.” Abba Khoushy played the prosecutor, Nahman Tamir the defense counsel, members of trade unions as witnesses, Passover seder, 1940s. Nahman and an attorney as president of the court. The trial exposed to the public to Mirsky-Tamir archive. a rift and a trenchant struggle at the Histadrut in Haifa after World War II and gave Tamir an opportunity to rationalize the defense of non-unionized labor (against which the Histadrut inveighed) in various ways. In a draft that he prepared ahead of the trial, Tamir presented troubling data and described problematic aspects of actions by Histadrut representatives in Haifa, which, he thought, deserved scrutiny. The theatrical setting of the dramatized trial allowed something that was repressed, that could not be developed directly in public, to be viewed in a controlled manner.

Passover seder for newly arrived immigrants, year not noted. Nahmias archive.

3 Nahman-Numa Tamir-Mirsky (b. 1913, Pinsk, d. 1999, Jerusalem) immigrated to Mandate 5 According to Prof. David De Vries, the public-trial tradition was invoked more in Haifa than in Palestine in 1934 and headed the Culture Department of the Haifa Labor Council from 1942 to 1949. any other urban center and the topics chosen reflected preferences in the local political language. 4 See also Eli Nahmias’ archive: http://www.eli2006.co.il/index.htm E-mail message to author, December 20, 2018. The matter needs further research.

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Tamir’s archive makes its public debut at the “Social Bauhaus” exhibition (“Expanding the Histadrut House,” Davar, April 27, 1938). Although the at an installation crafted by his granddaughter, the artist Orna Oren-Izraeli, competition evidently had to be called off due to the dire situation at the time, “Reading Party.” In the installation, set up at the home of the Haifa Labor Munio Gitai Weinräub and Alfred Mansfeld’s plan for the expansion appears Council, where a Hadar Hacarmel cooperative group is active, the archive serves to have been submitted under its auspices. The building that they proposed the artist as the point of departure for a contemporary reading of textual and would also serve as the Amphi-Theatre’s screen. visual material. Oren-Izraeli chooses to co-opt demographically diverse women and men in the area of Syrkin and Hehaluts Streets into a reading of Ushpizin. Munio Gitai Weinräub’s and Alfred Mansfeld’s Bet Hapoalim expansion plan, 1938, courtesy of the Munio Gitai Weinräub Museum, Haifa Closing the Open Space and Building the Home Munio Gitai Weinräub’s and of the Haifa Labor Council Alfred Mansfeld’s Bet Hapoalim expansion plan, 1938, courtesy The public trial—set for 8:00 p.m. in January 1946— could not have taken of the Munio Gitai Weinräub Museum, Haifa place if the Amphi-Theatre had not been roofed. In 1942, it became a full- fledged movie theatre. Although this novelty dimmed its splendor as an open space in a local landscape, it gave the venue broader potential for action. It happened due to the war-induced need to impose blackouts. Namely, the flickers that split the air when films were shown at the open Amphi-Theatre endangered the population, making roofing an urgent necessity. With building materials (mainly steel) in short supply, early plans by the architect Abraham Gerstenfeld6 for a temporary building using metal latticework elements were set aside. Also rejected, due to the threat of firebombing, was the inexpensive alternative of a wooden structure covered with rolled asbestos. Memories of the Ora Cinema fire were still fresh. The proposal that won the day included In 1946, after the war ended, the Haifa Labor Council continued to plan the construction of a skeleton of reinforced-concrete frames that would not the expansion of its headquarters. The architect Eugen Stolzer, then busy be connected to the existing building—thus not burdening it with additional renovating the Ora Cinema (designed together with his colleague, the architect weight—and roofing of latticework strips. The construction work took only Oskar Kaufmann), submitted a detailed plan for this purpose. It rounded the four months, including the addition of conveniences on the flanks of the stage, Hehaluts Street façade to match the bend in the street and left the original the creation of a regular entrance hall, expansion of the machinery room, and Amphi-Theatre unchanged (as it would remain for years to come). Stolzer’s solutions in matters of acoustics, ventilation, and aesthetics (in consultation plan also included the construction of a bridge from Herzl Street to the with the architect Eugen Stolzer).7 building on Hehaluts Street—an idea that had surfaced earlier in Baerwald’s The roofing of the Amphi-Theatre seems to have changed the perception plan for Bet Hapoalim. of expansion plans for the Haifa Labor Council building. In 1938, the world war Stolzer’s scheme wasn’t carried out for unclear reasons. The floors above yet some time away, the Council decided to put up another building, one that the cinema were planned and built by the architects Munio Gitai Weinräub would link the Kupat Holim, the healthcare center, premises—which would be and Alfred Mansfeld. The building was arch-shaped and had staircases at its expanded parallel to Syrkin Street—with the other side of the plot, where the extremes that were linked by a hallway lined with offices. Labor Youth movement had its rudimentary home. It was the Council’s wish to The building was dedicated in 1950 and again in 1952. Also designed and house in this structure, in addition to the expanded Kupat Holim, the offices of built by Weinräub and Mansfeld was a pedestrian bridge over Hehaluts Street, the Tax Bureau and the Labor Youth clubhouse. connecting the events hall at the Labor Council building with Herzl Street. The In early April, a contest for the architect of the facility was announced bridge boasted the architectural distinction of an innovative design with no 6 The architect Avraham Gerstenfeld (b. 1892 in Galicia) did his studies in Vienna and practiced supports, two concrete arches, and a steel balustrade. in Lwów. He served in the Austrian army as an officer in World War I and was taken prisoner in Siberia. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1936 and opened an office at 29 Balfour Street in Haifa. He designed multiple buildings in Haifa in 1941–1956, including the Rosener residence at 122 Moriah Bld., today a postal center, and the Derekh Hayam residences at 30 Derekh Hayam. His children, Shmuel and Ora (Yaar), were architects.

7 Oskar Berger, “Roofing of the Amphitheatre in Haifa,” Engineering and Architecture, journal of the Society of Engineers, A (March–April 1943). Berger took part in this project as its construction engineer.

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Hallway at Haifa Labor Council Afterword House. Nahmias archive. In 1982, the Amphi-Theatre Cinema was leased to Pesel, Ltd. (the operator) for a twenty-month term. It was shut down five years later; the Ora Cinema, leased to the same firm, met the same fate three years afterward. For nearly ten years, the Amphi-Theatre remained shuttered and crumbling, the lessee refusing to hand it back to its owner, the Histadrut. On October 4, 1996, the Mayor of Haifa and the chair of the Histadrut met and agreed to turn the Amphi-Theatre Cinema into a parking lot. On December 9, 1996, the Municipal Inspectorate declared the building hazardous. The next day, the Histadrut and Pesel received a summary demolition / renovation order. A year later, the Histadrut sued Pesel for having failed to make restitution. The court found for the plaintiff. The trial delayed the demolition, but in The bridge building, February 1998 the Municipality of Haifa sued the Histadrut for its failure to 1950, photo: Wald, demolish the structure. On May 20, 1998, the wreckers showed up, the Amphi- courtesy Solel Boneh Theatre went down, the slope was leveled, and the parking lot came into being. No preservation file exists; also absent is detailed documentation of any of the buildings described here.

The Amphi-theatre parking lot. Photographer: Orit Siman Tov, 2011

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Although the black-and-white photography obscures the color of the THE ORA CINEMA: building’s walls, it is indeed the original paint, as the preservation expert Walid Karkabi tested and confirmed. THE PINK SANCTUARY COMES TO LIFE To passersby on Herzl St., the pink structure on the corner looks like just another half-abandoned building that’s got nothing inside to search for. Well, they’re in for a surprise. “Social Bauhaus” is bringing the place back to life for three days by opening a side gate to a staircase that leads up to the last remaining part the magnificent balcony hall of what was once the Ora Cinema. One can imagine this part of the route as it looked when the theatre/cinema building was dedicated almost ninety years ago; it was also documented in historical photographs (courtesy architects Yael and Yaron Granot). Watch the ascending stairs converge, some dressed in red mosaic as they lead to the balcony, and others in green as they pivot toward the spacious hall. Although the lavish approach to the Ora Cinema has become a toy shop, you can still identify the ceiling as it sprawls over the wall like a gigantic elastic cap. At the rear you’ll find the glass light-admitting ceiling and remnants of what was once a snack bar, now paved with colorful ceramics.

Yitzhak Kalter, a photographer who studied architecture in Haifa, was invited to photograph the building ahead of its dedication on December 23, 1935. Fortunately, the high-quality photos that he took were left in a forgotten loft at the Hadar and Rami Ron Architects’ House and were discovered just as Yaron Granot was preparing the documentation file. Left to the imagination is the blast of the gong that signaled the opening of the event, the dimming of lights on both sides of the hall, and the purple velvet curtain drawn aside left and right to reveal the depth and the immense height of the stage. No one seemed to miss the khaki in the color scheme; the normative style was well received by the owner of the building, the Labor Movement in Mandate-era Red Haifa, which commissioned the work. Abba Khoushy, representing the Labor Movement, expressed his gratitude to those who contributed to the project, “from the simple laborer up to the artist, the author of the plan, Professor Kaufmann.” The Hapoel Orchestra played, the workers’ choir sang, and the audience in the hall cheered in its 1,100 seats for the Haohel Theatre actress, Leah Deganit, for “her oratory and her explanation” of Jacob Orland’s “The Roofers” and for Leah Goldberg’s

“New Hora,” with music by Verdina Shlonsky. Here’s the Ora Cinema/Theatre in its full grandeur! In the background, Truth to tell, the architect Oskar Kaufmann displayed modernistic restraint festooned in Latin characters, the screening of the first film, Crime and in the case at hand, relative to the much more regal theaters that he had Punishment, is heralded. The balcony area that’s been opened up for designed in the capitals of Europe. His early structures, such as the Neue the "Social Bauhaus" is at the top row of the windows on the protruding Stadttheater (1907) and the Volksbühne in Berlin (1913), seem to flicker from a northwestern façade. world of legend.

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although privately owned, had been “built on Jewish National Fund land” (Hatzofe, December 26, 1940). A year later, a disastrous fire cut the Ora Cinema down in its prime. At 2:00 a.m. on November 26, 1941, a blaze broke out in the auditorium. By the time it was extinguished several hours later, it had destroyed the performance hall and grievously damaged the rest of the building. Police opened an investigation. After lying derelict for six years, the structure was rededicated on November 27, 1947. “In its beauty and its fine appurtenances,” a journalist cheered, “it surpasses the Ora Cinema of yore.” Said another: “Along with the abundant taste invested in it (by the architect, Stolzer, and the engineer, Y. Neumann),

it has been modernized in its stage instrumentation and facilities and its The Ora hall bears a visible resemblance to Kaufmann’s Renaissance modern projection equipment, imported from the United States.” Expressing Theatre in Berlin (1926). The beauty of the clean sweep of Ora’s balcony railing the zeitgeist, it was emphasized that all the rest was locally made: the compensates for the lack of the breathtaking artistry that bedecked the Berlin rubber carpeting, the meticulously crafted furniture, and all the accessories edifice. Indeed, it is the cleanliness of the International Style, disseminated (Hamashkif, November 27, 1947). From then on, a gigantic sixteen-spotlight by architects who reached Mandate Palestine in the mass immigration era, chandelier starred in the hall; dangling the ceiling, it was reminiscent of the that made the wondrous miracle possible. With cheap materials and under fixture at the Renaissance Theatre in Berlin, which Stolzer had designed in difficult conditions, they created something truly new—simple and reductive, conjunction with Kaufmann. The impressive chandelier, which by dimming its malleable, and inspiring. lights signified the opening shot of the film being shown, remains engraved in the memory of anyone who experienced events at the Ora Cinema. The only change in the building’s façade was the addition of a colonnaded entrance on the side facing Herzl Street.

Oskar Kaufmann and his veteran partner Eugen Stolzer built this structure as the Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv was going up. Both architects had been born in Hungary and finished their professional training in Germany (Karlsruhe and Munich, respectively); both emigrated to Mandate Palestine when the Nazis acceded to power. Kaufmann, twenty years Stolzer’s senior (and already past sixty when he reached the country), left Palestine in 1939 en route to Britain but got stuck in Europe and was unable to return. After the war, he enjoyed a rebirth in Hungary, where he practiced his craft until his death in 1956. Stolzer married the architect Judith Segall, who at an early stage joined his office; together they designed important buildings in Haifa and all over the country. Here our story returns to the efflorescence of the Ora Cinema, as its managers wished upon it in their dedicatory benediction. May the structure, they intoned, “disseminate the culture of spirit and the psyche,” adding, “Our joint efforts made it possible to put up this building, the loveliest in the heart of Hadar Hacarmel, on a desolate plot that only a year ago was an obstruction The Ora Cinema under construction, 1935. Photo: Fernbach and Fuchs, courtesy Solel Boneh to all passersby” (December 2, 1935, Lavon Institute, 1926–1931). The movie theater indeed flourished. In 1940, however, as though nothing The renovated Ora Cinema became the throbbing heart of Red Haifa, its has changed since then, tensions in Red Haifa between ultra-Orthodox and schedule packed with films, theatre plays, lectures, and events, co-opting the secular Jews surged. The flaring tempers focused on two things: public bus Workers’ House and the Amphi-Theatre in so doing. Much effort was expended service on the Sabbath and Sabbath desecration at the Ora Cinema, which,

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on keeping it well maintained. It seems that even by obtaining a ruling from Theater (which had gone out of business three years earlier). As we know, the Histadrut tribunal, the architect Munio Gitai Weinräub thwarted the the wheels of justice grind at their own pace. Thus, all that time the tenant tenants’ initiatve to place wall paintings in the auditorium (Ingersoll, Munio continued to retain the abandoned buildings and abetted their growing Gitai-Weinräub, 2009, p. 83). decrepitude. In 2003, the Supreme Court ordered the restitution of the In the 1980s, dozens of movie houses in Haifa (including fourteen in Hadar buildings to the Histadrut. The derelict Ora had been sold off a year earlier. alone) began to shut down one after another. In 1986, it was reported that In an interview with the coordinator of the Council for Preservation in the the Ora Cinema, which at the Mayor’s behest had not operated on Sabbath Northern District, the movie-theatre scholar David Schalit tried to understand eves until then, joined five other movie theaters in offering Friday night how the Ora had been left off the list of structures for preservation and added, screenings (Ma’ariv, June 12, 1986). However, it was not only the worldwide shift “She [the Preservation coordinator] finds it hard to explain.” Unsurprisingly, in the perception of cinema houses that doomed the amazing concentration due to this puzzling preservation policy, the district zoning board authorized of cinemas in Hadar. The Hadar neighborhood itself collapsed. Its passel of the rezoning of the Ora and the construction of a commercial center in its place judicial and governmental institutions was transferred to the Lower City; the (David Schalit, Globes, September 19, 2001). ascendancy of malls dried up its businesses and took away local and national In a preservation survey commissioned by the new ownership, the architect public traffic. Hadar was gradually abandoned and lost its place among City Yaron Granot stressed the importance and architectural values of the building. Hall’s priorities. (The architects Danny Tatsa and Tzvika Koren from Y.Y. Granot Architects The story of the Ora Cinema, however, did not end when the institution participated in the survey.) Pursuant to this, the Haifa Municipal Preservation closed its doors in 1990. The company that rented it refused to return it to Committee demanded that the building be added to the preservation list its owner, the Histadrut; similarly it held onto Ora’s elder sibling, the Amphi- and that proposed modifications that would make it fit for commercial needs be approved. In her talk with Schalit, the coordinator of the Northern District Preservation Committee noted that the committee’s two decisions, which Advertisement for the reopening, HaMashkif, “contradicted each other,” were symptomatic of its action at large and its November 24, 1947 blindness to the cause of preservation in Haifa. Those who persuaded the developers to preserve the façade of the building, Schalit notes, were the new owner’s architects (from the Granot office). However, the conclusions in regard to the interior of the building remain open in accordance with uses, because the structure did not appear on the preservation list at the time. The outer appearance of the building has been preserved, as have the entrance lobby and the staircases, which are used today as a toy shop. Did this process have to happen, and at what points in time? What process might have placed matters on a different course, and what can one learn from the past in regard to the future?

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Artistic director and curator: Dr. Galia Bar Or We express our gratitude to the Mayor of Haifa, Dr. Einat Kalisch-Rotem, and to Steering committee: Bracha Sela, Dr. Galia Bar Or, Assaf Ron, Architect Waleed the Deputy and Acting Mayor, Nachshon Tsuk. Karkabi, Tom Alexandron The event was made possible by a contribution from the Chair of the Content manager and assistant to the artistic director: Zeela Kotler Hadari University of Haifa Board of Governors, Mr. Brad Bloom, and assistance from Photography: Orit Siman-Tov Mifal Hapayis. Instagram: Nir Namir We are indebted to the President of the University of Haifa, Professor Ron Rubin and to Professor Yossi Ben Artzi. Thanks to Professor Jacob (Yasha) Open House Grobman, Professor Shamai Assif, Professor Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Dr. Irit Founder and curator: Architect Alon Bin Nun Carmon Popper, Dr. Oryan Shachar, Elad Horn, Dafna Ziv and the entire staff Founder and director: Aviva Levinson of the Avie and Sarah Aronson Israeli Built Heritage Research Center, and Curators: Architect Omri Zilka, Karin Gal Professor Ezri Terezi. Production: Karin Gal, Eve Levyatan Special thanks to Professor Ouzi Elyada, who stewarded the research from Facebook page: Moran Moran Shambar its outset. Thanks to those who helped us to perform the research and put on the Beit Ha'Gefen exhibition: Yaara Gal-Or; the Shikun Ubinui archive; Inbar Dror Laks of the Haifa Director General: Asaf Ron Municipal Museum; Shuli Yarkoni of the Haifa Municipal Archive; Yigal Greiber Acting producer: Avihai Mizrahi and Amira Kehat of the Haifa Historical Society; Itay Keren of the Technion Production: Limor Shine Muhammad Salam and Ofri Nissani central library; Ora Zahavi and Keren Brenner of the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa; Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod; the Design: Koby Levy, the league Gerstel Collection—Moshe (Chico) Gerstel and the Built Legacy Research Center Avishai Dotan, Dotan-Lidgi at the Technion; Nitza Ben-Zvi, Haifa Municipal Theatre; Hadassah Levi of the Goethe Center, Tel Aviv; Tal Berman and Or Shaul, Madatech Haifa; and Avraham English translation: Naftali Greenwood and Miriam Bruck. We express our appreciation to Yaron Benari, Professors Oren Meyers and David De Vries; Architects Yaron and Yael Granot, and Architect Waleed Karkabi, Adi Roitenberg and Shay Shachar of the Haifa Municipal Preservation and Zoning Departments. The Dror Israel movement, Ori Amodaei and Chagit Shvartzman , and the dozens of volunteers also deserve our gratitude—as do the Tarbut Movement, Oz Zloof, Noam Levinger, Ella Bitov, and all the members. Thanks to the participants in Ofer Lellouche’s seminar: Ali Ben Arye, Sima Levin, Nevo Gat, Aviva Grofit, Yaffa Kornet, Talma Nevo, Moshe Kornet, Edy Levin, Rei Raviv, Dan Shomroni, Tzahi Gelal, Nitzan Heller, and Nir Namir, . Special thanks to Sami Karaman, Moshe (Chico) Gerstel, Penny Hes Yassour, Dan Lavie, Anat Har-Gil, Ronit Neeman, Yaron Hadar, Vitaly Dubov, and Haggai Arbiv, the Market Hotel, and the Twenty For Ever shop at Bet HaKeranot.

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