Israel as a modern architectural experimental lab, 1948-1978. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, Anat Geva.
• Editors: Gitler, Inbal Ben-Asher; Geva, Anat, 1947-
• Contents: Introduction by Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler and Anat Geva; ; Part I: Modern Experiments in Rural and Urban Design; ; Chapter 1: The Experimental Integrative Habitation Unit as a Modern Experimental Lab in Israel by Yair Barak; ; Chapter 2: From A-Locality to Locality: The Gur Neighbourhood in Hatzor HaGlili by Oryan Shachar; ; Chapter 3: Un-Settling Established Narratives: The West Bank ‘Communal Settlement’ as Architecture and Planning Lab by Yael Allweil; ; Chapter 4: Landscape Modernism and the Kibbutz: The Work of Shmuel Bickels (1909–1975) by Elissa Rosenberg; ; Part II: Public Architecture as Testing Ground; ; Chapter 5: A Museum In Between: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1965 by Eliyahu Keller; ; Chapter 6: Genia Averbuch: Modernism Meets the Vernacular: Youth Villages for New Immigrants, 1948–1955 by Sigal Davidi; ; Chapter 7: The Modern Israeli Synagogue as an Experiment in Jewish Tradition by Naomi Simhony; ; Chapter 8: Israeli Architecture at a Turning Point: Designs for the Israeli Center for Technological Awareness, 1978 by Jeremy Kargon; ; Part III: Considering Climate; ; Chapter 9: Minus 400 and Over 40 Degrees: Architecture in the Dead Sea, 1948–1971 by Daphne Binder and Theodore Kofman; ; Chapter 10: Architectonic Experimentation in Early Israeli Architecture Vis-à-Vis Climatic Constraints: The Case of the Negev Desertby Isaac A. Meir, Rachel Bernstein and Keren Shalev; ; Chapter 11: The Other Side of Climate: The Unscientific Nature of Climatic Architectural Design in Israel by Or Aleksandrowicz; ; Part IV: Reflections Abroad; ; Chapter 12: Building and Re-Building a Nation’s Identity: Israeli and Italian Architectural Culture, Their Representation and the Role of Bruno Zevi (1918–2000) by Matteo Cassani Simonetti; ; Chapter 13: Prefabricating Nativism: The Design of the Israeli Knesset, 1956–1966 and the Sierra Leone Parliament, 1960–1964 by Ayala Levin
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Intellect Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 720.95694; Architecture -- Israel
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789380651
• Related ISBNs: 9781789380644
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