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Shulamit Nadler at Ruppin
College of Agriculture during the
construction of the first buildings,
late 1940s
‫שולמית נדלר על רקע הבניינים הראשונים‬
‫של המדרשה החקלאית ע"ש רופין בעת‬
40‫ סוף שנות ה־‬,‫הבנייה‬

Michael Nadler in front of the
student dormitories, Rupin College
of Agriculture, early 1970s
,‫מיכאל נדלר לפני מעונות הסטודנטים‬
‫ ראשית‬,‫המדרשה החקלאית ע"ש רופין‬
70‫שנות ה־‬

architectural outlooks at the Technion – which at the time
was Israel’s only institution for the planning professions.
The professional training of each partner occurred under
different conceptions, and their echoes were expressed
in the firm’s productions. Shulamit and Michael Nadler,
students of Modernism and the rural ethos, focused
on plan presentation and distribution of buildings on
site; Shmuel Bixon, who absorbed the tradition of later
Modernism and early Brutalism, had studied sculpture
and refined the treatment of the façade and exterior;
Moshe Gil, a student of Brutalism, Structuralism and early
Postmodernism, began his career in photography and
tended mostly toward processing the plasticity of volumes

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