Erich Mendelsohn, Rehovot, Israel, 1934-37
OfHouses guest curated by Benedict Clouette & Marlisa Wise (Interval-Projects): “Mendelsohn designed this house south of Tel Aviv for Chaim Weizmann,
later the first president of Israel. In 1933, following the rise of the
Nazis, Mendelsohn, a German Jewish architect, left Berlin for England,
where he met Weizmann. Weizmann, then active in creating a Jewish state
in British Mandate Palestine, commissioned Mendelsohn to design the
house, which today is part of the campus of the Weizmann Institute of
Science. After opening an office in Jerusalem in 1935, Mendelsohn
completed several other buildings in Haifa, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv,
before emigrating to California in 1941.“ (Photos: © Shayzu, Shachar Muzicant, The Weizmann Institute Archive. Source: Nitza Metzger-Szmuk, “ Des maisons sur le sable: Tel-Aviv, mouvement moderne et esprit Bauhaus" (Paris : Ed. de l'Eclat, 2004), 333-37; Tal Eyal Architecture, “ The Weizmann Institute: Conservation Case Study ”.)
