Tel Aviv White City: Modernist buildings in Israel and Germany Tel Aviv White City: Modernist buildings in Israel and Germany A project within the research programme „Future Building“ conducted by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety. Imprint Published by Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) within the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) Deichmanns Aue 31-37, 53179 Bonn, Germany Scientific support Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety Miriam Hohfeld
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[email protected] Keyword: Tel Aviv White City Status April 2015 Printed by Rautenberg Verlag, Troisdorf Layout Selbach Design.de, Lohmar Peter Selbach Picture credits Cover: Dietlinde Schmitt Content: see Archives Reprint and copying All rights reserved. Reprint is permitted only if detailed reference to the original source is provided. Please send us two sample copies. The contents of this report reflect the views of the research contractor and do not necessarily represent the views of the publisher. ISBN 978-3-87994-159-9 Dear readers, Tel Aviv’s White City is a UNESCO World signed and built the White City’s buildings Heritage Site containing around 4,000 originated. These architects, many of Modernist buildings, nearly 2,000 of which whom were German-speaking Jews, emi are listed. This makes it the world’s largest grated to Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s.