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From 1948, architecture in Israel was dominated by the need to house masses of new immigrants. The Brutalist concrete style suited Israel's harsh climate and paucity of natural building materials. [19] Today, many such old buildings remain in Israeli cities.
A reconstructed Israelite house, 10th–7th centuries BCE, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel Digital 3D reconstruction of basic space distribution. A four-room house, also known as an "Israelite house" or a "pillared house" is the name given to the mud and stone houses characteristic of the Iron Age of Levant.
Herodian architecture is a style of classical architecture characteristic of the numerous building projects undertaken during the reign (37–4 BC) of Herod the Great, the Roman client king of Judea. Herod undertook many colossal building projects, most famously his reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (c. 19 BC).
The Herzeliya Hebrew Gymnasium, ca. 1930, later demolished to make place for the tower in which the IAA resides. The IAA was initially conceived as a private collection by Zvi Elhyani, an architect and architectural historian, while still a student at the Architecture Department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem in the mid-1990s. [3]
Archaeological studies have provided ancient Near Eastern counterparts for architectural features, furnishings and decorative motifs. Contemporary Israeli archaeologist Finkelstein considered Solomon's Temple to be built according to Phoenician design, and its description is in accordance with how Phoenician temples looked; [ 46 ] others have ...
International style architecture in Israel (5 P) M. Mamluk architecture in Israel (1 C, 6 P) Modernist architecture in Israel (3 C, 16 P)
An ancient Christian mosaic bearing an early reference to Jesus as God is at the center of a controversy that has riled archaeologists: Should the centuries-old decorated floor, which is near what ...
Architecture portal; Israel portal ... Buildings and structures in Israel — from ancient to contemporary works. Subcategories. This category has the following 11 ...