Photo: CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

View artwork »

View exhibitions »

View videos and articles »

Visit our Information Center to browse the artist file »

Arieh Sharon, architect, born 1900, Poland. 1931 Returned to Israel after completing his studies in Dessau, Germany with Walter Gropius. A founder of Gan Shmuel. He had great influence on the policy of population dispersal and on landscape design and building in Israel. Was chief planner of the Prime Minister's Office and was instrumental in finding solutions for the great waves of immigrants entering Israel after the declaration of independence; he set up a national outline plan dividing the country into planning regions according to economioc resources, geographic features, communication factors and histoical background; was the architect of hospitals: Beilinson; Ichilov; Soroka, Beersheva; Rambam, Haifa; the Medical School, Tel Aviv University, and many others. Initiated the design of buildings raised on "pilotis" - pillars - which created shaded street-scapes, added to the natural ventilation during the hot summer days, and connected the pavements with the green areas. 1955 Chairman of Israel Institute of Architects;1965-71 Was president of the Association of Engineers and Architects of Israel; Died 1984.

Education

1926-29 Bauhaus School, Dessau, Germany.
Studied and worked with architects Hans Meyer,and Walter Gropius.

Awards And Prizes

1932 Levant Fair, Tel Aviv, First Prize in Architecture
1960 Rokach Prize for Architecture, Tel Aviv Municipality
1962 Israel Prize for Architecture
1962 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Honorary member
1963 Mexican Institute of Architects, Golden Medal
1965 Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany, Honorary Member
1967 Bund Deutscher Architekten, Germany, Honorary Member
1970 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honorary Fellow
1975 Curatorium, Bauhaus Archive Berlin, Germany, Member