Sharon, Aryeh, 1900-1984

Sharon was an Israeli architect and winner of the Israel Prize for Architecture in 1962--the first in this discipline. He was an important contributor to the early architecture in Israel and the leader of the first master plan of the young state, reporting to then Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. Sharon studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau under Walter Gropius and Hannes Meyer and on his return to Israel (then Palestine) in 1931, started building in the international or Bauhaus style in Tel Aviv, which contributed to defining the city's architecture as the "White City." Sharon built private and cooperative houses, cinemas and in 1937 his first hospital, a field in which he specialized in his later career, planning and constructing many of the country's largest medical centers. [from wikipedia, 2009].

From the description of Architectural plans and contracts for Tel Aviv workers' cooperative housing, 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754865015