Carl Rubin (architect)

Carl Rubin
קרל רובין
Born	June 24, 1899 Sniatyn, Polish Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)
Died	February 7, 1955(1955-02-07) (aged 55)
Resting place	Old Cemetery, Herzliya
Nationality	Israeli
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Occupation	Architect
Spouse	Margot Rubin
Projects	See list: Citrus House (Beit Hadar) Rivka Greenwald House Independence Hall

Carl Rubin (Hebrew: קרל רובין, (24 June 1899 – 7 February 1955), was an Israeli architect known for his work in the international style. He designed many of the iconic buildings in this style in Tel Aviv.

Citrus House/Beit Hadar, Tel Aviv (1946)

Biography

Carl Rubin was born in 1899 in Sniatyn in Galicia. He studied architecture at the University of Vienna in Vienna.^[1] In 1920, Rubin immigrated to Eretz Israel, settling in Tel Aviv. In 1931, Rubin returned to Berlin to work for Erich Mendelsohn, an Allenstein-born Jewish architect whose architectural philosophy influenced Rubin's later designs.^[2][3]

In 1932, Rubin moved back to Tel Aviv in Mandate Palestine and opened his own architectural office. He contributed to the development of Tel Aviv and UNESCO's later recognition of the "White City" as a World Heritage Site.^[4]

Projects

Dizengoff House/Independence Hall

Celebratory crowd outside the Dizengoff House (now Independence Hall) for the Israeli Declaration of Independence, 14 May 1948

One of Rubin's important designs was his remodeling of the building that became Israel's Independence Hall (at Rothschild Boulevard 16). In 1932, Rubin resigned the home of Me'ir Dizengoff, Mayor of Tel Aviv who donated it to the city as the first home of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.^[5]

Dr. Sadovsky House

Rubin designed numerous residential complexes in Tel Aviv. One of these buildings, the home of Dr. Sadovsky (85, Rothschild Boulevard), designed in 1933, sold for 7 million dollars in 2007.^[6][7]

Citrus House/Beit Hadar

In 1935–1936, Rubin designed the Beit Hadar office building aka Citrus House, the first in Tel Aviv with a steel frame structure.^[8][9][10]

References

1. Carl Rubin artlog.co.il. Retrieved on 23 November 2024
2. "Carl Rubin". Artlog. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
3. "Bauhaus - Architects: Carl Rubin". Bauhaus.co.il. Archived from the original on 25 April 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
4. "Tel Aviv (Israel) No 1096" (PDF). UNESCO. p. 57. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
5. "Dizengoff House". Tel Aviv In Focus. 10 May 2009. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
6. Sign: Tel Aviv - buildings for conservation - 85 Rothschild, StreetSigns.co.il (accessed 8 November 2020)
7. Raz Smolsky (21 October 2007). קדחת רכישות: שני מבנים לשימור בשדרות רוטשילד בתל אביב נמכרו בכ-7 מיליון דולר כל אחד [Fever of acquisitions: two buildings on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, conserved and sold for approximately 7 million dollars each]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
8. "The Streets of Tel Aviv: The New City and Its Setting". Stanford University. Archived from the original on 22 June 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
9. "Public Buildings". Artlog. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
10. Photo: Itzhak Kalter, Beit Hadar under construction, 1936 in Yona Fischer, ed. Tel-Aviv: 75 Years of Art. Tel Aviv: Massada, 1984