Joseph Berlin

Joseph Berlin ({Heb:יוסף ברלין}) (1877-1952) was an Israeli architect who worked in Russia and Mandatory Palestine.

Biography Joseph Berlin was born in Mogilev, Russia (today in Belarus). He immigrated to British-ruled Palestine with his family in 1921.

Architecture career

He designed over a hundred buildings around the country, many of them iconic. His son Zeev Berlin was also an architect, and the two worked together.

Berlin designed 80 buildings in Tel Aviv, among them his own home on Rothschild Boulevard in the city center. His later projects incorporated many elements of the Bauhaus style, with fewer decorative additions, flat roofs and ribbon windows.

Notable works

1922/25 - Berlin-Pasovsky House 1923 - Arza sanatorium, Motza 1923/26 - Łodzia House, Tel Aviv 1923 - Diesel Power Station, Tel Aviv (16, HaHashmal Street) 1924 - Zissman House, Tel Aviv 1925 - Ohel Moed Synagogue, Tel Aviv 1926 - Beit Awad 1928 - Mograbi Cinema, Tel Aviv