Main entry:

Efrat, Zvi, 1959- author.

Title & Author:

The object of Zionism : the architecture of Israel / Zvi Efrat.

Edition:

1. Auflage = First edition.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books, [2018]
©2018

Description:

951 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Object : Dossier : Julius Posener's tableau -- Project : Dossier : Arieh Sharon's mise-en-scène -- Theory : Dossier : Patrick Abercrombie's synopsis -- Jewish style : Dossier : Erich Mendelsohn's semitic architecture -- Fair Levant : Dossier : Levant fair -- Ruins of war : Dossier : Marcel Janco's Bohemian colony -- Camps : Dossier : Louis Kahn's prefab dwellings -- Ruins of time : Dossier Moshe Dayan's archaeological fetish -- Forests -- Desert : Dossier : Moshe Novomeysky's Sodom -- Rural : Dossier : Richard Kauffmann's Zionist Gartenstadt -- Communal : Dossier : Samuel Bickels' Kibbutz gardenscape -- Pasolini's travelogue -- Model state -- State architecture : Dossier : the Hebrew University campus -- Union architecture : Dossier : the Rechters' proletarian retreats -- New towns : Dossier : Ze'Ev Drunkman's Yamit -- Public housing : Dossier : brief typology of the Shikun -- Serial blocks -- Exemplary neighborhoods -- Hyper-urbanism : Dossier : van den Broek and Bakema's mega-projects -- The National Museum and the Shrine of the Book : Dossier : Isamu Noguchi's sculpture garden -- Ein Rafa -- Brutalism : Dossier : Philip Johnson's reactor -- Structuralism : Dossier : Goodovitch's architecturology ; Dossier : Neumann-Hecker-Sharon's polygonism -- Public works -- Detail -- Luxus : Dossier : Dora Gad's designs -- Tropics : Dossier : Heinz Fenchel's extravagance -- Commemoration : Dossier : the ghetto fighters' house -- Privatization -- Speculation : Dossier : Oscar Niemeyer's exile -- Appropriation : Dossier : Louis Kahn's ruin -- Occupation : Dossier : excerpts from B'Tselem's report.
Publisher's band.

Summary:

"The Object of Zionism: The Architecture of Israel is a critical study of Zionist spatial planning and the architectural fabrication of the State of Israel from the early decades of the twentieth century to the 1960s and 1970s. It scrutinizes Israel as a singular modernist project--unprecedented in its relative scope and rates of growth, its political and ethical circumstances, and its hyper-production of spatial and structural experiments. This project entailed the molding of a new terrain, the construction of dozens of new towns and hundreds of new rural settlements, and the appropriation of post-war architectural trends, especially Brutalism and Structuralism, as signifiers of national vigour and cultural ingenuity. Contrary to common belief, the State of Israel was not born of emergency routine or speculative ventures, but rather with the objective of designing an instantaneous model state."--Publisher's description

ISBN:

9783959051330 (hardcover)
3959051336 (hardcover)

Subject:

Architecture Israel.
Architecture Israel History.
Architecture Israel Designs and plans.
Architecture and state Israel.
Zionism Israel.
Architecture Israël.
Architecture Israël Histoire.
Architecture Israël Dessins et plans.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Israël.
Architecture.
Architecture and state.
Zionism.
Architecture Israel History 20th century.
Building Israel History 20th century.
Housing Israel History 20th century.
Planning Israel.
Israel.

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
History.
Architectural drawings.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304258
Call No.: BIB 249782
Status: Available