Tel Aviv is the only city in the world with a centre built entirely in functionalist style.

A UNESCO world heritage site since 2003, it consists of around 4,000 buildings constructed according to a master plan that originally intended a kind of garden city with large piazzas and a hierarchical traffic system. Drawn up by Patrick Geddes in 1925, the plan was subsequently modified in terms of building density to meet the needs of the growing population in the early ’30s. An itinerant exhibition showing at Vienna’s Architekturzentrum until May 19 documents this unique period of the architectural past and present that has recently undergone a general restoration. The exhibit includes archive and present-day photographs along with drawings, animations and portraits of the protagonists. Silvia Monaco

Until 19.05.2008
The White City of Tel Aviv
Architekturzentrum Wien
Museumsplatz 1, im MQ
A-1070 Wien
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