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Why Israeli Housing Feels Like an Oven
Why does so much of Israel’s housing feel like a concrete oven? This episode traces the architectural collision that shaped the nation: European Bauhaus and Brutalist ideals dropped into the Levantine desert. We explore why the Shikunim—those ubiquitous concrete housing estates—copied Le Corbusier’s forms but stripped out his social infrastructure, leaving residents with thin walls, flat roofs, and no shade. From the White City of Tel Aviv to the modern energy crisis, we examine how importing a northern European building typology created a seventy-year-old architectural debt that we’re still…
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