Our second day in Tel Aviv, Israel 🇮🇱.
Sunny and warmer ...
Today we walked the northern part of the promenade and also walked the city looking for Bauhaus architecture.
In addition to its beaches, vibrant nightlife, bohemian cafés and artisan markets, Tel Aviv harbours a ‘White City’ – the residual gems of the Bauhaus design movement, whose structures contribute a striking impression on the city’s skyline. Though many of this UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site’s buildings have fallen into disrepair, their once-gleaming facades graffitied or turned grey, many of the original 4000 Bauhaus buildings have been restored to their former glory.
The Bauhaus movement originated in 1919 in Weimar, Germany and pioneered the modernist ideology that draws intimate connections between aesthetic and social sensibilities. The movement successfully injected artistic creativity into industrial manufacturing, at the same time grounding fine art with purpose and functionality.
When many of the Jewish Bauhaus architects, hailing from across central and eastern Europe, arrived in British Palestine, having fled from the increasingly popular Nazi ideology, they brought the Bauhaus design principles with them, and endeavoured to realise what they could not in their home countries: a city designed from the ground up, constituted by smooth-lined, universalist structures. Modern Tel Aviv was only 20 years old, the first stone laid in reclaimed swamp land near Jaffa Port in 1909, and almost all of the public and commercial buildings erected in the 1930s followed the Bauhaus style.
In 2003 UNESCO declared The White City a World Cultural Heritage Site, for its status as the largest concentration of Bauhaus buildings anywhere in the world.
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