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and culminating in the
Jerusalem Theater complex –
the firm’s designs made
their mark on community,
culture and recreation
buildings in Israel’s early
decades.

The Nadler’s early
cultural buildings reveal
a refinement of the
traditional agrarian
architectural language
that had characterized
the early planning stages
of the Ruppin College of
Agriculture (1946) – their
first major project. The
buildings demonstrate a
continued preoccupation
with modernist form-
function relations and a
gradual removal of the
agrarian rhetoric from the
structure – despite the

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