"From the Bauhaus: visions, design and technology" - Design Lecture Series
The White City: Conservation of the Bauhaus Architecture
Speaker
Micha Gross, Director, The Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv, Israel
About the speaker
Micha Gross is currently the Director of The Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv. He co-founded the Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv in 2000 to promote the national and international recognition of the “White City” as a heritage site. In his role, Gross has made several publications including, “Preservation and Renewal: Bauhaus and International Style Buildings in Tel Aviv” (2015) and “Between the Private and Public Domains” (2016). Gross is a frequent speaker at events in Israel and abroad concerning modernist heritage sites
Abstract
Tel Aviv has undergone several historical processes regarding the development of the city. In particular, the major process in the 1930s has made the city as one of the highest concentrations, perhaps the highest in the world, of buildings in the International Style or widely known as the Bauhaus style. The great construction of thousands of the buildings in the style was accounted to the large immigration influx in the 1930s wherein many of the buildings were built by the young Jewish architects of the Bauhaus design school returning home from Germany. Since then, Tel Aviv has been called the White City. At the end of the 1970s, statutory procedures were initiated to systematically conserve the historical buildings. Searching for an equilibrium among the preservation value of the cultural heritage and modernisation of the city, Dr. Gross discusses the large-scale and long-term conservation process with us. Insightful thoughts on such as, the assessment and management in the conservation as well as the concessions made and opportunities created for city development are shared.
Background
The White City of Tel-Aviv was proclaimed a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in 2003. It refers to a collection of over 4,000 Bauhaus style buildings in Tel Aviv built between the 1930s and 1950s. One of the outstanding features of these Bauhaus buildings is the way they adapted to the cultural and climatic aspects of the city. In addition, they created an architectural ensemble of the Modern Movement reflecting modern organic planning principles.
More about the Bauhaus Center: https://www.bauhaus-center.com/about/
More about the UNESCO listing: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1096/
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About "From the Bauhaus: visions, design and technology"
"From the Bauhaus: visions, design and technology" is an exhibition co-organized by HKUST Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD) and Office of Global Learning (OGL). The Bauhaus design ethos was to create designs integrated with technology through a balance of the functional and aesthetic. This event will be held from 21 to 25 Oct 2019. It consists of an exhibition, a documentary film, and three thematic design lectures to showcase its influence to today and future.
For details of the exhibition and other design lectures, please refer to https://engage.ust.hk/organization/bauhaus.