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Introduction by Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler and Anat Geva
Part I: Modern Experiments in Rural and Urban Design
Chapter 1: The Experimental Integrative Habitation Unit as a Modern Experimental Lab in Israel by Yair Barak
Chapter 2: From A-Locality to Locality: The Gur Neighbourhood in Hatzor HaGlili by Oryan Shachar
Chapter 3: Un-Settling Established Narratives: The West Bank ‘Communal Settlement’ as Architecture and Planning Lab by Yael Allweil
Chapter 4: Landscape Modernism and the Kibbutz: The Work of Shmuel Bickels (1909–1975) by Elissa Rosenberg
Part II: Public Architecture as Testing Ground
Chapter 5: A Museum In Between: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1965 by Eliyahu Keller
Chapter 6: Genia Averbuch: Modernism Meets the Vernacular: Youth Villages for New Immigrants, 1948–1955 by Sigal Davidi
Chapter 7: The Modern Israeli Synagogue as an Experiment in Jewish Tradition by Naomi Simhony
Chapter 8: Israeli Architecture at a Turning Point: Designs for the Israeli Center for Technological Awareness, 1978 by Jeremy Kargon
Part III: Considering Climate
Chapter 9: Minus 400 and Over 40 Degrees: Architecture in the Dead Sea, 1948–1971 by Daphne Binder and Theodore Kofman
Chapter 10: Architectonic Experimentation in Early Israeli Architecture Vis-à-Vis Climatic Constraints: The Case of the Negev Desertby Isaac A. Meir, Rachel Bernstein and Keren Shalev
Chapter 11: The Other Side of Climate: The Unscientific Nature of Climatic Architectural Design in Israel by Or Aleksandrowicz
Part IV: Reflections Abroad
Chapter 12: Building and Re-Building a Nation’s Identity: Israeli and Italian Architectural Culture, Their Representation and the Role of Bruno Zevi (1918–2000) by Matteo Cassani Simonetti
Chapter 13: Prefabricating Nativism: The Design of the Israeli Knesset, 1956–1966 and the Sierra Leone Parliament, 1960–1964 by Ayala Levin
Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler is a senior lecturer at Sapir Academic College and an adjunct lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.
Anat Geva is professor at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.
'Israel as a Modern Architectural Experimental Lab, [is] another
manifestation of [the] renewed appreciation of early state
architecture and adds to our collective understanding of the role
concrete played in Israel’s magnificent construction.'
*Liam Hoare, Tel Aviv Review of Books*
'Israel as a Modern Architectural Experimental Lab, 1948–1978 makes
an important contribution to this growing body of literature by
bringing together case studies of different kinds of buildings in a
variety of sites across Israel and outside the country. [...] The
book covers diverse landscapes, it also leaves a number of areas
for future investigation. [...] An invaluable addition to the study
of Israeli architecture, but it will also be of interest to anyone
studying the relationship between modernist architecture and nation
building more generally.'
*Noam Shoked, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians*
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