Joseph Berlin

Joseph Berlin
Born	(1877-09-23)September 23, 1877 Mogilev, Russian Empire
Died	July 18, 1952(1952-07-18) (aged 74) Tel Aviv
Nationality	Russian, Mandatory Palestinian, Israeli
Alma mater	Imperial Academy of Arts, Saint Petersburg
Occupation	Architect
Design	Mograbi Cinema, Tel Aviv

Joseph Berlin ({Heb:יוסף ברלין}) (1877-1952) was an Israeli architect who worked in Russia and Mandatory Palestine.

Biography

Joseph Berlin was born in Mogilev, Russia (today in Belarus). He immigrated to British-ruled Palestine with his family in 1921.

Architecture career

Pinsker 10, designed by Berlin

He designed over a hundred buildings around the country, many of them iconic.[1][2][3] His son Zeev Berlin was also an architect, and the two worked together.[4]

Berlin designed 80 buildings in Tel Aviv, among them his own home on Rothschild Boulevard in the city center. His later projects incorporated many elements of the Bauhaus style, with fewer decorative additions, flat roofs and ribbon windows.[5]

Notable works

Bank Leumi building in Jaffa

Haaretz newspaper press

• 1922/25 - Berlin-Pasovsky House
• 1923 - Arza sanatorium, Motza
• 1923/26 - Łodzia House, Tel Aviv
• 1923 - Diesel Power Station, Tel Aviv (16, HaHashmal Street)[6]
• 1924 - Zissman House, Tel Aviv
• 1925 - Ohel Moed synagogue, Tel Aviv
• 1926 - Beit Awad[4]
• 1928 - Mograbi Cinema, Tel Aviv

See also

• Architecture of Israel

References

1. זנדברג, אסתר (2004-09-02). "ברלין בתל אביב". הארץ. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
2. סמואלוב, יובל (2004-10-11). "הצבעים הנוספים של העיר הלבנה". גלובס (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2019-08-17.
3. שטרנהל, זיוה (2005-02-28). "הרמוניה מסורתית בפרובינציה מזרח תיכונית". הארץ (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2019-08-17.
4. Steinberg, Jessica (24 March 2018). "In a Rothschild Boulevard restoration, eclectic meets modern design". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
5. In a Rothschild Boulevard restoration, eclectic meets modern design
6. "Gallery of the first power stations". Israel Electric Corporation. Retrieved 10 February 2021.

Further reading

• Berkovich, Gary. Reclaiming a History. Jewish Architects in Imperial Russia and the USSR. Volume 1. Late Imperial Russia: 1891–1917. Grunberg Verlag. Weimar und Rostock. 2021. P. 70. ISBN 978-3-933713-61-2.
• Josef Berlin, Architect: Between Little Tel Aviv and the White City, Baruch Ravid (Binyan Vediur, 2005)