This is the synagogue and study center Jewish Heritage Center and sponsored by the family Cymbalista designed in 1996 by the great Mario Botta (its for example, the renovation of La Scala Milan, the Mart in Rovereto). I am neither an architect nor experts, but purity and formal rigor (in fact Botta collaborated with Le Corbusier's early career) make me say that I find simply an extraordinary achievement. Inside and outside every detail is understated, yet essential studied in every detail and materials research. The walls of the synagogue are golden stone of Tuscany and dolomite rock, the Ark of the Covenant which contains the Torah scrolls in onyx of Pakistan.
This absolute beauty is located at ' Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of Engineering of Louis Kahn (another bigwig), are only two structures of the university campus to be projects of Israeli architects. Taking advantage of a free guided tour, Art and Architecture, the city offers to visitors from other routes, we are back with Gaston, before his return to Milan in the mist, the place is too good. The tour had to be in English, but it was just us and the guide Francine is French, oui, oui, there has been a luxury. To begin the story in its history, because like all people who are sleeping in the first around here, his life has been a great adventure, and adventures always interest me. His parents were of Thessaloniki, forced to emigrate to Paris, where Francine was born in the difficult years, so in the first flight to Marseille, then Free French, Bilbao and then the Atlantic to South America. Before then 32 years in Montevideo to Buenos Aires as director of an art gallery and a few year in Rio de Janeiro. It 'finally arrived in Israel to reunite with their children and grandchildren and all the Monday morning there she volunteered for a tour of the University.
He explains that the University of Tel Aviv has about 50 years, 26,000 students and has been deliberately designed as an open space to the city and people. In fact, each school has a cafeteria, libraries are available, students walk in the parks than mothers with prams and grandparents with grandchildren.
The various colleges are representative of changes, developments and trends in architecture from the last five decades. You pass by, for example brutalism Central Library on the side of the '60s (the term comes from the French "béton brut" used by Le Corbusier to indicate the exposed concrete and the priority objective of the functionality of the spaces; over the photo shutter concrete strict guidelines to filter the light too) to postmodernism 90 of the Faculty of Languages, an expression of great stylistic freedom, it draws on the lessons of the past, but with less rigorous and more detailed elaboration .
Present also at the University buildings deconstructionist , such as powers of Biotechnology, the reaction of many great architects (for example, Frank Gehry with the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Zaha Hadid, Libeskind) to the architectural rationalism. E 'geometry unstable and decomposed forms disjointed, even misleading, crooked buildings, a revolution Absolute traditional aesthetic. (I saw this regard, the convention center next Libeskind religious Bar Ilan University on the outskirts of Tel Aviv)
In the meadows around the field university also many sculptures by artists known to me as Arnaldo Pomodoro or Arman or Micha Ullman and other authors who do not know. Two, however, struck me in particular, "Happening" by Yigael Tumarkin, so called because in fact, with all its nooks and shady ravines is a meeting place for young people that they themselves become an integral part of and the sculpture of Pomodoro particularly valued in this environment.
To finish with the university campus, Beit Hatfutsot literally House of Dispersions, translated Museum of the Diaspora, through documents, photos, films, panels, customs, traditions and vicissitudes of all Jewish communities in the world, for a jew or anyone interested in their history, a truly unmissable. But it is not of museum I would like to talk, never finish more but the entrance to the ground floor.
One entry empty, all white, just one big panel in the middle of the lobby that read: You are part of the story three screens and the images are constantly changing, many faces of all types, ages and colors, the series "but as racial purity." No longer just a tourist, I felt requested.
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