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Delays of over a decade
in building the Jerusalem
Theater, coupled with major
shifts in local and global
architectural trends and
cultural fashions, offer an
illustrative example in the
history of Israeli architecture
of the transition from
modernism to Brutalism
in general, and Jerusalem
Brutalism in particular
(echoing the case of the
Hans Scharoun’s Berlin
Philharmonic concert
hall, 1963).

The intermittent
period during which the
Jerusalem Theater was
shaped, is reflected in the
polar contrasts between
two other proposals the
firm submitted for central
cultural institutions in Tel

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