From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Carl Rubin (architect)
Carl Rubin (architect)
ment of Tel Aviv towards the UNESCO recognition of the
"White City" as a World Heritage Site.[3]
Projects
Rubin designed numerous residential complexes in Tel
Aviv, one such building dated 1932 at Rothschild Boule-
vard 85, sold for 7 million dollars.[4]
One of Rubin’s important design accomplishments
was his remodeling of what would become Israel’s Inde-
pendence Hall (at Rothschild Boulevard 16) when in 1932
Mayor of Tel Aviv Meir Dizengoff donated his house to
become the first home of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Rubin made the plan and elevations symmetrical, and
removed the architectural ornament. His modifications
characterised the appearance of the building from its
time beginning as the art museum to the time of the dec-
laration to the present.[5]
Historic photograph showing a celebratory crowd outside the From 1935-1936, Rubin was the architect of the office
Dizengoff House (now Independence Hall) for the Israeli Decla- building Beit Hadar, the first in Tel Aviv with a steel
ration of Independence, 14 May 1948 frame structure.[6][7][8]
Carl Rubin (1899-1955) was an architect mostly active
in the international style with projects focused around Notes
Tel Aviv. [1] Artlog, Carl Rubin accessed 14 September 2009
[2] Bauhaus.co.il, Bauhaus - Architects: Carl Rubin,
Biography [3]
accessed 14 September 2009
UNESCO, Tel Aviv (Israel) No 1096 p. 57
Carl Rubin was born in 1899 in Galicia, and studied ar- [4] Raz Smolsky, Fever of acquisitions: two buildings on
chitecture in Vienna. In 1920, Rubin decided to move to Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, conserved and sold for
Eretz Israel and settle in Tel Aviv for some time. During approximately 7 million dollars each, Haaretz Online,
his stay, Rubin planned gardens, residential and public accessed 14 September 2009
buildings. In 1931, Rubin began working as an apprentice [5] Tel Aviv In Focus, Dizengoff House accessed 14
in the office of Erich Mendelsohn, a Jewish architect at September 2009
that time working in Berlin. The influence of the original [6] Stanford University, The Streets of Tel Aviv: The New
style of Mendelsohn would later be evident in Rubin’s City and Its Setting, accessed 14 September 2009
projects.[1][2] [7] Artlog, Public Buildings, accessed 14 September 2009
In 1932, Rubin decided to return to the country and [8] Photo: Itzhak Kalter, Beit Hadar under construction,
settled again in Tel Aviv. In this second period in the 1936 in Yona Fischer, ed. Tel-Aviv: 75 Years of Art. Tel
country Rubin opened his own architectural office. Rubin Aviv: Massada, 1984
was a prominent Jewish architect, with a prolific career.
Carl Rubin is an example from Erich Mendelsohn’s circle
(in addition to those from the Bauhaus, and the circle of
Le Corbusier) important in contributing to the develop-
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