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About Liebling Haus - The White City Center 

Liebling Haus - The White City Center was co-founded by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality and the German government in a historical and cultural crossroad at the heart of Tel Aviv. The Center’s mission is to promote architecture, conservation, and urban development, focusing on modern architecture. The Liebling Haus serves as an urban hub for the community, fostering local and international dialogue and cooperation in the fields of conservation and architecture research, professional training, and knowledge.

Liebling Haus street view

In 2003, UNESCO declared the heart of Tel Aviv as a World Heritage Site, joining five other modernist Heritage Sites worldwide. The White City Center was founded in recognition of Tel Aviv’s outstanding architectural landscape, an exceptional urban texture consisting of over 4,000 international style buildings - an unparalleled global phenomenon.

 

The Liebling Haus is a listed building located on 29 Idelson Street, a 1930s modernist icon and one of several historical buildings constructed around Bialik Square, once the beating heart of Tel Aviv. Commissioned by Tony and Max Liebling in 1936, it was designed by architect Dov Karmi and engineer Tzvi Barak. With its perfect adaptation to local climate and distinct international style characteristics, the house is entirely different from the heavily decorated home of poet Haim Nachman Bialik, located around the corner.

The Liebling Haus hosts multidisciplinary exhibitions and lectures by local and international speakers. In addition to a permanent exhibition introducing the White City, the building features galleries, workspaces, a research lab, a cafe, and an ecological garden inspired by the Garden City and hosts various public events, guided tours, and workshops.

Visitors of this paragon of international style residential building can feel the unique character of the vernacular architecture developed in Tel Aviv-Yafo. Despite its new function as a public building, the original layout of the apartments was mostly preserved, revealing authentic materials and details that invite visitors to experience history. The Liebling Haus Audio App tells the story of the building, its residents, and the preservation process, offering additional layers of knowledge and information.

 

Interacting with the extensive, ever-changing content dedicated to urban architecture and conservation,  visitors can explore modernist architecture heritage through a contemporary-historical perspective.

Liebling Haus, 1936

Liebling Haus Team

Shira Levy Binyamini

CEO & Artistic Director

Arch. Sharon Golan

Program Director & Head of the Research Lab

Michal (Miki) Simon

Community & Hosting Manager

Arch. Sabrina Cegla

Senior Curator

Arch. Eran Eizenhamer

Director & Curator of the Education Program

Arch. Anat Levi

Urban Sustainable Program Director

Anat Ran

Marketing & Advertising Manager

Dalit Simhoni Bar

Administrative Manager

Maya Kramer

Producer of the Education Program

Ran Malul

Graphic Designer

Liav Levi

Operation Manager

Moran Navon

Program Manager

Roni Binder

An artist who works in sculpture, print and video, a graduate of the Multidisciplinary Art School in Shankar. Roni teaches and creates while maintaining playfulness and discovery in the material, aspiring to expand the pool of materials and techniques available to us and the possibilities for combinations between them.

Yoni Raz Portugali

Writer and essayist. His writings are published in Israel (Maayan, Haaretz) and internationally (n+1, Popula). Has a bachelor's degree in cinema and literature and a master's degree in Yiddish literature and French literature from Tel Aviv University.

Omer Shach

Graduated from art studies at the Multidisciplinary Art School in Shankar. Engaged in painting, sculpture and printing. Exhibited in a solo exhibition at Beit Liebling and participated in couple and group exhibitions in various galleries. Strives to develop in his students flexibility in practical and conceptual creative tools, in the transition between 2D and 3D, and to have fun along the way.

Or Herz

Craftsman and art guide. Teaches sculpture, design and woodworking to children. Has a BA in History from Tel Aviv University, a BA in Art from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and a MA in Art from USC.

Roni Raviv

Artist and educator. She has a bachelor's degree from the Multidisciplinary School of Art at Shankar College and a master's degree in education and art from Goldsmiths University in London. Engaged in teaching and developing projects that deal with the connection between creative and learning processes.

Michal Daviv

A graduate of the department of architecture in Bezalel, who believes in discovery, creation and learning arising from the built environment and the urban space, while using techniques from the world of plastic arts and crafts.

Maayan Mozes Platnik

Video and performance maker, graduate of the School of Visual Theater and holder of a master's degree in public art from the Bauhaus University in Weimar. deals with the connection between urban space, art and education.

Tal Alperstien

Video and performance artist, with a bachelor's degree from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and a master's degree from the School of Cinema and Television at Tel Aviv University. Her works have been presented in many exhibitions. In recent years she has been dealing with the meeting between the cinematic and the performative.

Anna Wild

Performance and installation artist, graduate of DasArts master's studies at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem. Engages in creating situations and conditions that turn learning and understanding into subversive and poetic actions.

Arch. Eran Eizenhamer

The director of the city's school at Liebling House. Architect and curator, lecturer in the Department of Structural and Environmental Design in Shenkar. His research deals with architecture and life in the city as a space for experimentation, learning and action through the practices of architecture and art, performance and design.

Alan Kulger

Project Manager, Federal Construction Agency Rhineland-Palatinate

Klemens Hauri

Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction

Daphna Lev

Committee Member, Israel

Revital Asher Perez

Committee Member, Israel

Nili Lamdan

Committee Member, Israel

Udi Carmeli

Co-Chairman, Israel

Dr. Herlind Gordlech

Committee Member, Germany

Suzann Haus

Committee Member, Germany

Gido Shpras

Committee Member, Germany

Sern Bartul

Co-Chairman, Germany

Germany drips

Watering System

Anya and Tree in the City Collective

Concept Development, Planning and Construction of Liebling Garden

Sharon Golan

The conservation architect on behalf of Liebling Haus

Yotam Carmeli, Tali Olach-Eyal, Ran Shapira

Operating contractor, Archo preservation and restoration of buildings

Rebecca Karmi

Project architect, Ada Karmi Architects office

Arch. Winfried Barna and Arch. Tal Eyal

Documentation File

Arch. Winfried Barna

Conservation Consultant

Dan Hasson and Yonatan Cohen

Interior Architects

Shlomo Dagan

The Project Manager on behalf of the Tel Aviv Foundation for Development

Lev Caffe

Opening Hours
Sunday to Thursday 8:00–19:00
Friday 8:00–14:00
Saturday 9:00–14:00

Opening Hours may change from time to time, please check social media before arriving.

Entrance Is Free

Information Operates at the same time
as the opening hours
Tel. 03-7431025
liebling@whitecitycenter.org

Offices
Sunday-Thursdays 9:00-15:00
Tel. 03-6473239 Fax 03-6711331 office@whitecitycenter.org

Liebling Haus - the Center of the White City,
29 Idelson St., Tel Aviv-Yafo,
zip code: 6332458

Parking

Liebling Haus visitors are entitled to a 75% discount in the nearby Bezalel parking lot. The benefit is daily and valid from 8:00 to 24:00. Please bring your parking voucher to the reception to receive a discount sticker prior to leaving.

Lev Coffee - Opening Hours

Sunday - Thursday 8:00 - 19:00

Friday 8:00-14:00

Saturday 9:00–14:00

Tel. 03-5749339

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