Daring the Shutter, Or Aleksandrowicz and Israel Architecture Archive. The Tel Aviv Idiom of Solar Protections
Author: Assaf Cohen, Johanna Asseraf (Eds.)
Publisher: Public School Editions
Language: English-Hebrew
Pages: 182
Size: 11x18
Weight:
162 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9789659227013
Price:
€10.00
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In Tel Aviv of the 1950s and 1960s, solar protection was hype. Architects loved it: inspired by photographs of the modernist architecture of Brazil, they indulged in the creation of a new architectural idiom in which external shading devices served as the major visual attraction. The ornamental frenzy, justified by climatic considerations, was far from securing perfect solar control; its failures expedited the emergence of a new vernacular that would change the city’s image forever.
Daring the Shutter is the product of a collaboration between architectural historian Or Aleksandrowicz and Dr. Zvi Elhyani, Israel Architecture Archive’s founder and director.