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Jan. 19, 2021
Genia Averbuch immigrated to Palestine from Ukraine as a child in 1911 and grew up to design nothing less than Tel Aviv s famous Dizengoff Square. She also planned numerous apartment houses in the city, the offices of women’s organizations and three synagogues, including Midrashiyat Noam in Pardes Hannah. Averbuch has been mentioned in many publications and is also the only female architect appearing in Nitza Metzger-Szmuk’s 1993 book “Houses from the Sand: International Style Architecture in Tel Aviv” – a milestone in the designation of Tel Aviv as the White City.
Lotte Cohn was the first female architect in the country: For five decades, starting in 1921, she designed numerous projects that became icons in the history of the Yishuv (pre-state Jewish community), among them the agricultural school in Nahalal, a public kitchen that was the first to operate on electricity, the Kaete Dan Hotel in Tel Aviv and that city s Rasco neighborhood. Cohn’s wor