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Bauhaus Architecture Tour
Posted on February 18, 2014 2 Comments
Originally posted on Israel Tours:
Bauhaus style was influenced by the 19th century English designer William Morris who argued that art should meet the needs of society and there should be no distinction between form and function. It was marked by radically simplified forms, the absence of ornamentation, by harmony between the design of an object or building and…
13.2- Shira Shoval
Posted on February 13, 2014 Leave a Comment
Backstage is pleased to host Shira Shoval for a Pit Stop to “Start up” your weekend! She is a textile designer and artist. From Shenkar College in 2009. She is currently working in Tel Aviv in a studio with three friends of her. We all are waiting for her exhibition in the New Art Gallery […]
Bauhaus Style
Posted on February 4, 2014 Leave a Comment
One great way to explore Tel Aviv is through the Bahaus architecture that is its defining style the so-called “White City”, the central part of Tel Aviv, that is home to the largest concentration of Bauhaus buildings, was named a World Cultural Heritage City by UNESCO in 2003. It’s because this kind of achitecture is […]
Tel Aviv and its History
Posted on February 3, 2014 Leave a Comment
Althought it is not the official capital of Israel, The White City is the country’s pulse, the center of the Israelian Economy , culture and cuisine. It’s hard to believe that these streets were nothing but sand dunes. Having risen from empty sand dunes less than a century ago, Tel Aviv could never hope for […]
The City of Collective Memory
Posted on February 3, 2014 Leave a Comment
The name of a city’s streets and squares, the gaps in its very plan and physical form, its local monuments and celebrations, remain as traces and ruins of their former selves. They are tokens or hieroglyphs from the past to be literally reread, reanalyzed, and reworked over time. Images that arise from particular historic circumstances […]
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”
Posted on February 3, 2014 Leave a Comment
That saying is the familiar pearl, ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’ We understand, through this widely used statement, that the concept of beauty is such a relative one that its defined terms change with whomever is actively doing the perceiving. What holds beauty to one, may not to another. It is a […]
