2022-ongoing
Funding agency: Center for Humanities and AI
Research leaders: Or Aleksandrowicz, Maoz Azaryahu
Researchers: Anat Goldman, Daniel Rosenberg, Yoav Orion, Iddo Baum
The project aimed to produce rigorous evidence about the emergence and adoption of architectural modernism in residential building design in Tel Aviv through systematic examination of all the buildings (about 7,000 in number) that were constructed in the city between 1921 and 1940. This evidence was used for understanding the historical context and motivations behind the introduction and adoption of the modernist architectural idiom in Tel Aviv and for the identification of individual architects who played a key role in that process. Based on these findings, we also sought to evaluate to what extent the adoption of the architectural modernist idiom in Tel Aviv was motivated by ethical and ideological reasons, or whether other factors were involved in this process.