Jewish Israel 4 photos of holy sites in JERUSALEM photographer SAM BARKAI

Description

Lot of 4 photos (Black& White) of holy sites in JERUSALEM (
"Yad Avshalom" Monumental monument and other sites).
Photographer: SHMUEL (SAM) BARKAI
Size (each photo): 11.5*6.5 cm
Shmuel (Sam) Barkai (1898–1975)
was an Israeli architect. was born in Russia in 1898 and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1920 with a group of pioneers. During this period, he supervised, among other things, the construction of Haim Nachman Bialik's house, designed by architect Yosef Minor. He also worked as a draftsman for the Tel Aviv municipality under architect Dov Hershkovitz. In 1926, Barkai left the country and moved to Paris with the aim of training as a certified architect. Until 1933 he studied at the Higher School of Decorative Arts and Urban Planning. Upon graduation he worked for about two months with breaks and unpaid in the office of the architect La Corbusier.
In 1934, for the Hercules Skyrianidis and his son George, one of the pioneers of the Cyprus hotel industry, he designed the Forrest Park Hotel in the town of Platres in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus. The hotel is built in an eclectic modern style and incorporates Art Deco elements. The hotel has become one of the two most prestigious hotels in Cyprus and has hosted world champions.
When Barkai returned to Eretz Israel in 1934, he joined the group of young architects who advocated the assimilation of modernism into the Israeli landscape. In this context, he participated in the establishment of a Hebrew architecture magazine, and at the same time was appointed a writer in the French architecture magazine "Architect d'Jordi". As an architect, Barkai designed a number of apartment buildings in Tel Aviv during the 1930s, the most prominent of which were built at 79 Gordon and Engel 5 streets, as well as two connected private houses at 6 Elazar Street in Ramat Gan. In the 1940s and 1950s, the scope of work in its design was reduced, and these included only private homes. An exception was the planning of the Sharon Cinema in Netanya in its planning. In the 1960s, he designed two public buildings in Tel Aviv - the Armored House at 51 Lohamei Gallipoli Street and Yad Avner at 10 Zelig Street in Tel Aviv, which was intended to serve the local community and eventually became the building of the Department of Geography at Tel Aviv University.
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