Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv is an organization concerned with
Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the , was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined Decorative arts, crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., ...
architecture and design in the city of
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...
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Israel
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. Buildings designed in the
International Style
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, commonly known as Bauhaus, comprise most of the center of Tel Aviv known as
''The White City''. The vision behind the Center is to raise awareness of the Bauhaus heritage and be part of the cultural and artistic development in Tel Aviv.
History
The Bauhaus Center, founded by Asher Ben Shmuel,
Micha Gross and Shlomit Gross in 2000, is at 77 Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, Israel. The founders recognized the need to document the history and patrimony of the Bauhaus architecture in Tel Aviv. They established the Center in order to increase awareness of this, and to expose Bauhaus as a style that crosses boundaries between different art media.
The Center has been collaborating closely with the Israel National Commission for
UNESCO
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since the designation of Tel Aviv as a
World Heritage Site
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in 2003.
The Center also cooperates with the Municipality of Tel Aviv and several educational institutions, galleries, museums and associations of engineering and architecture.
The center was formerly located at both 99 and 155 Dizengoff St.
Structure
* Bookstore and Library - The Center's bookstore specializes in design, architecture and the city of Tel Aviv. Its library contains archival material about the Bauhaus era in the city as well as rare books about the subject. The Center also acts as an independent publishing house for books about Bauhaus architecture and design, and the City of Tel Aviv.
* Gallery - The gallery shows documentary exhibitions on Tel Aviv and its architecture, culture, people, design and photography.
* Tours - The Center conducts walking tours around the
White City showing prominent Bauhaus buildings, built during the 1930s and 1940s. There are also self-service tours in the area of
Dizengoff Square
Dizengoff Square or Dizengoff Circus (, fully Zina Dizengoff Square, , ) is an iconic public square in Tel Aviv, on the corner of Dizengoff Street, Reines Street, and Pinsker Street. One of the city's main squares, it was built in 1934 and inau ...
using an
audio guide
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* Shop - The Bauhaus shop hosts a collection of items of a wide variety of purposes including fashion, interior design,
Judaica and jewelry. It offers to local artists and designers a space to show, promote and sell their works to the public.
See also
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Bauhaus Foundation Tel Aviv
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Max-Liebling House
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Architecture in Israel
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Tourism in Israel
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Culture of Israel
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References
External links
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Review of Bauhaus Centeron
Fodor's
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"Bauhaus Style, White City"(Review of the exhibition ''Between the Private and the Public Domains in Bauhaus and International Style in Tel Aviv'' held at the Bauhaus Center in August 2016), by Lotte Beilin, August 14 2016, ''Telavivian Magazine'' website
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