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Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in relation to the emergence of the State of Israel.
Sommario
List of figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
Socialism-Pragmatism: An Introduction
1. Bauhaus and Berlin: Sharon’s Formative Years
2. Restrained Modern: Local Manifestations of Modern Architecture
3. Dialectics of Cooperativeness: Formal-Informal in the Kibbutzim
4. Physical Planning in Israel: Strategies of Decentralization
5. Sharon and Idelson: Civil Monumentality
6. Planning the Holy Basin of Jerusalem: The Sacred and the Profane
7. Sharon in Nigeria
8. Systemized Modularity: Arieh Sharon and Eldar Sharon
Arieh Sharon: An Epilogue
Index
Info autore
Eran Neuman (B.Arch., Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, 1996; MA, UCLA, Los Angeles, 2000; PhD, UCLA, Los Angeles, 2004) is an architect, designer and architectural historian and theoretician. He is a professor of architecture at Tel Aviv University’s Azrieli School of Architecture, which he headed from 2010 to 2018. Since October 2019, he has held the position of Dean of the Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University. Neuman is also the founding director of the Azrieli Architectural Archive at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His research concentrates on the history of Israeli architecture, both before and after the establishment of the State of Israel; architecture and commemoration; and the influence of technology on architectural design. He lectures frequently at leading institutions around the world. His numerous publications include Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust, Performalism: Form and Performance in Digital Architecture (with Yasha Grobman), David Yannay: Architecture and Genetics, and Arieh Sharon: The Nation’s Architect.
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Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in relation to the emergence of the State of Israel.
