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Rabbi Cohen was already familiar with the work of Erich Mendelsohn, an architect working in New York and then San Francisco. Together with his family, the architect had escaped Nazi Germany, moving to England and Palestine.
Erich Mendelsohn’s career showcases the evolution of modernism during the 20th century. He began by dealing with the machine age in an expressionist mode but was later forced to adapt modernism to geographic and technological circumstances different from those of Europe.
These letters were edited after his death by Oskar Beyer, Mendelsohn’s lifelong architect friend, becoming Eric Mendelsohn: Letters of an Architect, a book which was translated and published in English in 1967. [4]
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Born in Allenstein (Olsztyn), East Prussia, Mendelsohn was the fifth of six children; his mother was a hatmaker and his father a shopkeeper. He attended a humanist Gymnasiumin Allenstein and continued with commercial training in Berlin. In 1906 he took up the study of national economics at the University of Munich. In 1908 he began studying archite...
At the end of 1918, upon his return from World War I, he settled his practice in Berlin. The Einsteinturm and the hat factory in Luckenwalde established his reputation. As early as 1924 Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst(a series of monthly magazines on architecture) produced a booklet about his work. In that same year, along with Ludwig Mies van de...
Work hall of the Herrmann hat factory, Luckenwalde (1919-1920)Einsteinturm (solar observatory on the Telegraphenberg) in Potsdam, 1917 or 1920-1921 (building), 1921-1924 (technical equipment).The building, its expressionistic form giving the impression of con...Steinberg hat factory, Herrmann & Co, Luckenwalde (1921-1923) with a strict, angular formMossehaus, conversion of the offices and press of Rudolf Mosse, Berlin (1921-1923)Erich and Luise Mendelsohn papers, 1894-1992. Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles, California.The archive, from the estate of Luise Mendelsohn, comprises the personal corr...
Eric Mendelsohn’s Park Synagogue tells the story of the construction of The Park Synagogue and examines how Mendelsohn consciously sought to express the ideals and traditions of the congregation and Judaism in its architectural forms.
Dec 27, 2012 · For Erich Mendelsohn, the German-Jewish architect who immigrated to Palestine in 1934, the sky really was the limit. The prospering architect, whose ascent in Germany was halted when the Nazis came to power, renewed his energies in Palestine, enchanted by the prehistoric landscapes.
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Apr 11, 2016 · Canaan’s book, advocating a more regional modernism, was written in the US, with an introduction by Erich Mendelsohn. Answering his imagined audience, the author explains that the book was not written in Israel because there people were too busy building the state.
