Joseph Barsky
Joseph Barsky (Hebrew: יוסף ברסקי, Odessa, Russian Empire – 1943 in Haifa, Palestine) was an architect in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine.
Joseph Barsky, 1925
Barsky was a graduate of the Architectural College in Grekov Odessa Art school of Odessa and the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Art.[1] He came to Ottoman Palestine in 1907 and from that time on lived and worked in Jerusalem. He was one of the most renowned representatives of the Zionist architects of the Eretz Yisrael style.
Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, Tel Aviv, old building, about 1936
Notable buildings
- Herzliya Hebrew High School, Tel Aviv (destroyed in 1962) [4][5][6]
- The first kiosk in Tel Aviv at the middle of the Rothschild Boulevard[2][3]
- Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem
- Diskin Orphanage, Jerusalem
References
- Sergey R. Kravtsov, "Reconstruction of the Temple by Charles Chipiez and Its Applications in Architecture," Ars Judaica, vol. 4 (2008), 36–37.
- "הקיוסק הראשון" (in Hebrew). My Tel Aviv. Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
- Yediot Aharonot. "לילה לבן: בתים בת"א שהחושך עושה להם טוב" (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
- Diana Dolev. "Architectural Orientalism in the Hebrew University – the Patrick Geddes and Frank Mears Master-Plan" (PDF). Tel Aviv University. pp. 218–219. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2011-07-24.
- Annabel Jane Wharton (2001). Building the Cold War. University of Chicago Press. p. 108. ISBN 0-226-89419-3.
- Catherine Weill-Rochant. "Myths and Buildings of Tel Aviv". Bulletin du Centre de recherche français de Jérusalem.
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