ARCH DAILY Venice Biennale 2014: Israel Explores The Urburb, a Neither Urban nor By Gili Merin Neither urban nor suburban, the Urburb is a fragmented mosaic of one hundred years of modernist planning in Israel: early twentieth century garden-cities, mid-century social housing and generic, high-rise residential typologies of the past two decades. These residential mutations dominate the contemporary Israeli landscape, expanding and replacing existing textures, in an endless, repetitive cycle..	HAARETZ A critical look at Israel's 'little boxes on the hillside' Exhibit at Venice Biennale of Architecture focuses on the historic blandness of construction in Israel. By Keshet Rosenblum Ugly, boring Israeli buildings lacking any soul or special features are the basis of the Israeli exhibit at the upcoming Biennale of Architecture in Venice, which opens June 7. The exhibition, entitled “The URBURB: Contemporary Lifestyles,” will deal with the dominant mass of Israeli living quarters, with its rese
ARCH DAILY Venice Biennale 2014: Israel Explores The Urburb, a Neither Urban nor By Gili Merin Neither urban nor suburban, the Urburb is a fragmented mosaic of one hundred years of modernist planning in Israel: early twentieth century garden-cities, mid-century social housing and generic, high-rise residential typologies of the past two decades. These residential mutations dominate the contemporary Israeli landscape, expanding and replacing existing textures, in an endless, repetitive cycle..	HAARETZ A critical look at Israel's 'little boxes on the hillside' Exhibit at Venice Biennale of Architecture focuses on the historic blandness of construction in Israel. By Keshet Rosenblum Ugly, boring Israeli buildings lacking any soul or special features are the basis of the Israeli exhibit at the upcoming Biennale of Architecture in Venice, which opens June 7. The exhibition, entitled “The URBURB: Contemporary Lifestyles,” will deal with the dominant mass of Israeli living quarters, with its rese
ARCH DAILY Venice Biennale 2014: Israel Explores The Urburb, a Neither Urban nor By Gili Merin Neither urban nor suburban, the Urburb is a fragmented mosaic of one hundred years of modernist planning in Israel: early twentieth century garden-cities, mid-century social housing and generic, high-rise residential typologies of the past two decades. These residential mutations dominate the contemporary Israeli landscape, expanding and replacing existing textures, in an endless, repetitive cycle..	HAARETZ A critical look at Israel's 'little boxes on the hillside' Exhibit at Venice Biennale of Architecture focuses on the historic blandness of construction in Israel. By Keshet Rosenblum Ugly, boring Israeli buildings lacking any soul or special features are the basis of the Israeli exhibit at the upcoming Biennale of Architecture in Venice, which opens June 7. The exhibition, entitled “The URBURB: Contemporary Lifestyles,” will deal with the dominant mass of Israeli living quarters, with its rese