Magnífico ejemplo de arquitectura racionalista en Tel Aviv.
Tel Aviv is for some, like the Babylone of modern Time and do not correspond at all to the "Promised Land". But because it needed seculars like Hertzl for zionism, the city as an ideology goes along way before Jerusalem, the modern Zionism and the socialist ideology of the 1900's secular pionners.
Tel Aviv started in 1909, built by people who wanted a model for the modern Jew in opposition to the ghetto Jew from eastern Europe. They wanted the city opened with large streets and boulevards, a city where one does not feel oppressed by the tall buildings. The goal of the founders was to create an homogenous city that would allow its inhabitants to mix and to meet, hence the large squares, gardens and parks.
Open towards the sea and the world, 1920's Zionism was very much influenced by socialist and communist ideas surging throughout Europe.
The white city became grey...The biggest concentration of Bauhaus buildings Ibn Gvirol, Dizengoff, Ussishkin, Nordau, Rothschild as well as in the pretty Montfiore street, but the true natural Bauhaus reserve has lost its first beauty.
The name white city came, in 1940, from the white paint facade, which became along the years greyer and greyer... These buildings are today, for some, in ruins and the rest is in great need of repair. To help the restauration, Tel Aviv city council is giving out financial packages to landlords who would take part in that project.
Members of the Bauhaus mouvement having fled Nazism, taught young jewish architects in Tel Aviv and got enthusiastic for the Bauhaus style, sober, clean with square and straight lines. The humanist architecture put man at the centre of their creation.
The units were meant to be first and foremost practical, down to earth, simple, open on the outside and the others, hence the big balconies. Without any frivolous details, the Bauhaus has a flat roof which makes a terrace where you can have a quiet party or something wilder in the summer nights.
From 1931 to 1956, like cubes on the sand, about 4000 Bauhaus buildings were built in Tel Aviv giving the city its particular style. It represents a unique architectural case in the world, and that is why UNESCO declared Tel Aviv cutural world heritage. the city joined the 56 other cities honoured with the same distinction. Tel Aviv and Bresil's capital are the only 2 modern city having received such accolade. The other sites in Israel sharing the honour are Massada, the old city of Acre(Akko) as well as the walled city of Jerusalem.
As much as 1500 buildings are part of a vast refurbishment project. All Bauhaus buildings have been declared national heritage by law, and therefore it is forbidden to destroy or alter the facade or the style.
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