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Teamwork: Plan,
Façade, Section
Zvi Elhyani and
Michael Jacobson

In 1946 Shulamit (née Kanievsky) and Michael Nadler,
recent graduates of the Architecture Department at
the Technion in Haifa, returned to Tel Aviv and opened
a private architecture practice. The office – which by
the mid-1960s had become the Nadler-Nadler-Bixon-
Gil Architecture Firm, one of the leading and most
productive architecture firms in the country – uniquely
symbolizes the story of public-civic architecture in Israel.
From its central position over a long period of time, the
firm’s work represents the extreme shifts that occurred
in Israel, and reflects the many transformations of late
modern architecture.

This book seeks to present a broad archival
view, the first in fact, on Nadler-Nadler-Bixon-Gil’s scope
of activity from its beginnings in the mid-1940s until the
end of the first decade of the 21st century. This is also
the story of a connection between four young architects
who graduated from the Technion between the mid-
1940s and mid-1960s – a period following the World
Wars and Israel's independence, the peak years of the
Social State, which witnessed an unprecedented surge
in building (both rural and urban) that went hand in hand
with the State’s institutional, educational, cultural and
social establishment during its early decades.

The period during which the four partners studied
at the Technion, a time span of less than two decades –
stretches between poles representing completely different

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