The Israeli Pavillion at the 14th Venice Biennale for Architecture
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Venice Biennale 2014:
Israel Explores The Urburb, a Neither Urban nor
uburban Landscape
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 research based on a sober look at the dominant architecture in Israel − banal, identical high-rises and cookie-cutter cities. According to the exhibition’s curators,
Dr. Roy Brand, artist Keren Yeala-Golan, and architects Uri Scialom and Edith Kofsky, this construction is excluded from the architectural discourse in Israel or is addressed only minimally, although in practice it constitutes 80 percent of the country’s housing stock.
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