Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa
Klappentext:This is the story of two cities, historical Jaffa and modern-day Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv is the "White City", said to have risen from the sands of the desert, and acclaimed worldwide for its architectural heritage and its gleaming Bauhaus-inspired Modernism. Jaffa ist the "Black City", the Palestinian city that was largely obliterated to make way for a new European-style architecture at the heart of a newly formed Israel.
Israeli writer and architect Sharon Rotbard offers a rare insight into the politics that underpin the narrative of the White City, and how architecture has been used as a political tool.
Both a gripping narrative history and a unique architectural record, this deeply moving book shows how any city in the world is made not only of stones and concrete but also of stories and histories – victors and losers, predator and prey. In this way, the legend of the Black City and the White City, architecture an war, is our story too.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Sharon Rotbard is an architect, activist, writer and publisher based in South Tel Aviv. He is a senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, and Chair of Architecture at CARE School of Architecture at Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India.
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