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Article: From Bauhaus to Our House: Venice, Rome, Florence...Tel Aviv? Pinch
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- May 27, 1994
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Hillel Halkin
Forward
05-27-1994
From Bauhaus to Our House: Venice, Rome, Florence...Tel Aviv? Pinch Me!.
TEL AVIV -- Poking her head beneath the half-raised aluminum blind of a top-floor terrace on a peeling three-story building at the corner of Dov Hus and Mendele Streets, the gray-haired woman in the house frock peered down at the large crowd of people below, who were being shouted at through a megaphone, as if suspecting that a fire had broken out in her house and she was the last to know.
"Notice how the facade is divided into several simple, dominant masses, each reflecting a clear function," said the wielder of the megaphone, pointing at the curving sweep of the terraces as he ...