Tel Aviv: The White City: The White City

Due to its more than 4,000 white Bauhaus buildings, Tel Aviv is often called “the White City”. The city center, created in the nineteen-thirties and -forties under the influence of international modernism, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003. Many architects, most of them emigrating from Europe, found opportunities here to realize their ideological principles and architectural ideas. Tel Aviv’s moder...