10 of Tel Aviv’s best examples of Bauhaus residential architecture

Rothschild Boulevard by Salomon Gepstein, 1932

Tel Aviv is home to one of the best-preserved collections of Bauhaus and International Style architecture in the world. Micha Gross from the Israeli city’s Bauhaus Center has selected 10 of the most important examples (+ slideshow).

Over 4,000 Bauhaus-style buildings were constructed in Tel Aviv between 1920 and 1940, by German-Jewish architects who immigrated to the region after the rise of the Nazis.

They based their new architecture for the city on teachings from the renowned Bauhaus art school, which ran between 1919 and 1933.

Most of the structures feature elements typical of Modernism – like undecorated surfaces, ribbon windows, flat roofs, outdoor living spaces and pilotis – but are defined separately from the movement as they follow stricter rules of volume expression, visual balance and non-ornamentation.

Their style is also known as the International Style, a term coined by American architects Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock for their 1932 exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

The majority of Tel Aviv’s examples can be found in the central White City – a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is protected as “an outstanding example of new town planning and architecture in the early 20th century”.

The Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv was founded in the area in 2000 to increase awareness of the heritage and encourage preservation works. It hosts a library, a shop and a gallery for exhibitions, and offers architectural tours for visitors and enthusiasts.

Co-founder Micha Gross has chosen 10 of the best residential examples for Dezeen, which all feature in a 2015 book he edited titled Preservation and Renewal: Bauhaus and International Style Buildings in Tel Aviv. See his picks below:

Bruno House, 3 Strauss Street by Ze’ev Haller, 1933

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