Two Sides of Israeli Architecture
Ramle from Aryeh Sharon?s book of plans for towns in newly born Israel, now part of the Israel architecture archive.
Crossposted from Haaretz
Ramle from Aryeh Sharon?s book of plans for towns in newly born Israel, now part of the Israel architecture archive.
In what appears to be an astounding coincidence, ceremonies took place at exactly the same time on exactly the same evening in adjacent halls in the Tel Aviv Museum. One was the launch of the Israeli architecture archive, and the other was a fundraising event for the establishment of a museum of contemporary Palestinian art in Umm al-Fahm, including an archive that would document its history, the first of its kind in Israel’s Arab community.
The two events are essentially two sides of the same coin. On one side is the archive in Tel Aviv, which aims to save and preserve architecture in Israel for the Jewish citizens of the state, and on the other, the museum in Umm al-Fahm, which aims to collect evidence of a legacy of Palestinian art and culture that was destroyed at the establishment of the state of Israel, and to gather up the pieces that are left.
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