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PoMo - definition and mapping of Post-Modern style in Tel Aviv-Yafo 1977-2003

The architectural language in Tel Aviv changed completely in the eighties and nineties. In these years, a new period of construction and architectural creation began in the city after two decades of a slowdown in construction and the abandonment of the city center by residents. This period in architecture is recognized as the post-modern style which is sometimes considered incomprehensible. In Tel Aviv it is seen as a disruption of the "clean" and "simple" modern style that the city was designed and built in light of. To a large extent, the postmodern style did not survive the test of time and its design language is almost not used today, but its importance to the development of the local architectural heritage and the conditions for its formation have not yet been properly examined. This study examines postmodernism architecture not only as a style but mainly as evidence of a period and a radical cultural and economic change.

Arch. Elad Horn, Director of the Avi and Sara Arnson Built Heritage Research Center, Faculty of Architecture, Technion, Haifa

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