Alfred Mansfeld was an Israeli architect best known for designing—in collaboration with interior designer Dora Gad—the Israel Museum, for which he was awarded the Israel Prize in architecture in 1966. Mansfeld was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and grew up in Germany, training as an architect in Berlin and Paris before immigrating to Haifa in 1935. He designed many residential and public buildings, including the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Hydraulic Institute at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, where he taught architecture. Mansfeld kept an extensive archive of his preparatory work, including sketches, plans, and maquettes; these are currently housed at the Tel Aviv Museum.
Ivory-inlaid bed, Salamis, Cyprus, 8th or 7th century BCE. Among the most beautiful items surviving from Israel and neighboring countries are the ivory carvings used for decorating furniture, among…
Around the time that Paul Strand took this photograph, he wrote an essay on photography that called for developing an original American art “without the outside influence of Paris art schools.” This…
This photograph is one of a series of street photographs that Paul Strand took in 1916, using a camera outfitted with a false lens pointed away from what was being photographed. This enabled him to…