Bauhaus, Tel Aviv, Israel
Many of the German Jewish architects trained at the Bauhaus, the Modernist school of architecture closed by the Nazis in 1933, fled Germany and came to Tel Aviv where they had over 4000 buildings in these styles built. Central Tel Aviv offers the largest concentration in any one city in the world of bauhaus style buildings. In 2003, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), proclaimed "The White City" of Tel Aviv as a World Cultural Heritage site, for being “an outstanding example of new town planning and architecture in the early 20th century”.
"The White City" must have been spectacular when it was white. Most of these splendid buildings are in decay. Tel Aviv could have been the bauhaus city answer to the Art Deco Miami.
Bauhaus, Tel Aviv, Israel
Many of the German Jewish architects trained at the Bauhaus, the Modernist school of architecture closed by the Nazis in 1933, fled Germany and came to Tel Aviv where they had over 4000 buildings in these styles built. Central Tel Aviv offers the largest concentration in any one city in the world of bauhaus style buildings. In 2003, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), proclaimed "The White City" of Tel Aviv as a World Cultural Heritage site, for being “an outstanding example of new town planning and architecture in the early 20th century”.
"The White City" must have been spectacular when it was white. Most of these splendid buildings are in decay. Tel Aviv could have been the bauhaus city answer to the Art Deco Miami.