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Genia Averbuch, Israeli, born Russian Empire, 1909–1977 Genia Averbuch was born in Smila, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) She was born in 1909 in Smila, Russian Empire, (now Ukraine). Genia Averbuch's family immigrated to Palestine in 1911 when she was two years old and settled in Tel Aviv. Her father, Zeev Averbuch, was the city's first pharmacist, and her mother Zviya was a sculptor. From 1915 to 1919, the family lived in Egypt to where the family was deported by the Ottomans during World War I. In the late 1920s, she studied architecture in Europe. Upon her return in 1930, she began work as an architect in the technical department of the Jewish Agency. Following that, she worked with architect Shlomo Ginsburg to whom she was married to for a short period. In 1933, she established an architectural company together with engineer Zalman Baron. During World War II she directed the Tel Aviv municipal building department. Averbuch’s architecture is characterized for its modern aesthetics in the Bauhaus style. Projects of hers include Zina Dizengoff Circle (1934) in Tel Aviv, the Galina coffee house (1934) in the Oriental Fair in Tel Aviv, together with Else Gidoni and Shlomo Ginsburg, pioneers' houses (residences for single women) (1942) in Jerusalem, and the building for Max Fein High School, Tel Aviv (1955).

Education

1926-1925 Architecture, Regia Scuola di Architettura in Rome
1926-1930 diploma in architecture from the Royal Academy of Arts of Brussels