Architectural Secrets in Israel - Is Tel Aviv a Hidden Bauhaus Architecture Pearl?

Tel Aviv is going to be explored in this essay from its origins, the development of the masterplan by Sir Pattrick Geddes und its Bauhaus heritage buildings and weather adapted characteristics. Tel Aviv is often called "the White City” due to its more than 4,000 white Bauhaus buildings. The combination of elegance and functionalism would be the characteristic elements of Tel Aviv’s modernism. The city centre, created in the nineteen-thirties and -forties under the influence of international modernism, was declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 2003, just three years later after the ‘Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv’ was established. Many architects, most of them emigrating from Europe, found opportunities here to realize their ideological principles and architectural ideas. Tel Aviv is a hidden Bauhaus architectural pearl because the Bauhaus style buildings are discreet, laconic, and often changed over the time in their appearance. That’s why, unless one’s pointing out the unobtrusive elegance and simplicity of the whole scene, under the layers of time effected neglection it’s not easy to see the true essence, the hidden core of Tel Aviv, because the inhabitants had apparently forgotten they're treasures as the time passed away and they have actually started to renew their buildings at the end of the 20th century.

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