AN ARCHITECT'S WAY IN A NEW LAND An architect's way in a new land
- 1976
- 267 p. Ill., plan. 29 cm.
Texte en anglais, allemand et français Bibliogr. p. 267. Index
Kibbutz + Bauhaus is the autobiography – published in the mid 70's – of Arieh Sharon0Fi, a Bauhaus student who became, 20 years after his studies, the author of what is known as the Sharon Plan, an all encompassing master-plan for the new state of Israel, established in 1948 Bruno Zevi, in his introduction to Kibbutz + Bauhaus, writes: The fascinating, sometimes almost hypnotic, peculiarity of this volume is that it blends and synthesizes three books into one. Firstly, there is the biography of a life made up of rare ingredients: Zionism, Kibbutz, Bauhaus, national planning, professional activity on a local, then on an international scale. In the second place, there is the story of a building of a country, agricultural settlements, urban housing, hospitals, universities, up to the reconstruction of a united Jerusalem. Finally, we have the achievements of an architect, his creative products, his space-time language in the dynamics of its numerous modern trends.ii Kibbutz + Bauhaus is designed in the format of an album, relying mainly on visual images with extended subtitles in English, German and French. It is divided into 9 chapters, each with a short introductory text.