The architectural and spatial transformation of Tel Aviv's urban space in the first half of the 20th century

The final qualification work “Architectural and spatial transformation of Tel Aviv’s urban space in the first half of the XX century” is aimed at a concrete example to study how one of the first attempts to realize the ideological potential of modernism in the East was made. The architecture of Tel Aviv in the 1920s - 1940s is the earliest case in history when a modernist school showed itself on an urban scale. Not a conceptual design of a separate building, but a whole city with thousands of houses, hundreds of streets and dozens of districts was built according to the principles of the most progressive architecture. To show how this happened and why the West realized its advanced project in the East, the work analyzes the formation and development of modernist architectural thought from the first utopian experiences of the beginning of the century to the historical moment of construction of Tel Aviv. It also shows the social, economic, and ideological reasons why Tel Aviv turned from a colonial-style provincial town into at least the main construction site in the 1930s and at most the capital of architectural modernism. The work is based on the study of sources on the theme of modern architecture. Both foreign and native works, in particular Oriental ones, were used. It is worth noting that the literature written by native authors, represents only Western architecture.