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Volume 30, Number 4, pages 359-372 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2019_4_359
WHITE CITY: A COLLECTION OF MODERNIST BUILDINGS FROM TEL AVIV
Éva Lovra
Address: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Debrecen, 2-4 Ótemető utca, Debrecen, HU-4028, Hungary.
E-mail: lovra.eva@eng.unideb.hu
The original master plan of the White City (nowadays the Old North area of Tel Aviv) was created according to the pioneering New Urbanism principles by Sir Patrick Geddes and his team between 1925 and 1929 (revised in 1938). The town was imagined on a human scale with decreased motor car traffic, larger urban blocks with central public spaces, gardens and verdant greenery along the boulevards and narrower streets — taking hints from the British Garden City Movement. The carefully placed series of urban blocks and the street network let the cooling breeze from the Mediterranean Sea refresh the inner districts. The architectural style was not directed in the planning documents. The built environment of the White City, the functional design, white and pastel façades, balconies, flat roofs and smaller openings, was assimilated into the climatic and regional building requirements. The specific aesthetics dominates the streetscape and met both artistic and functional ambitions that were adopted by the Bauhaus and other Modernist architects.
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