Alexander Baerwald

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Baerwald designed the first (historic) building of the Technion between 1912 and 1924, now The Israeli National Museum of Science, Technology and Space.

Alexander Baerwald (1877–1930) was a German Jewish architect best known for his work in Haifa, Israel.

Baerwald was born in Germany in 1877. He assisted the building of the Königliche Bibliothek, in Berlin between 1908 and 1913. The building known for its Neo Baroque architecture is now the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. After designing several other structures in the capital in the early 1910s he moved to Israel temporarily around 1912 where he began work in Haifa.

Baerwald is best known for designing the Technion University campus in Haifa, Israel between 1912 and 1924, which today forms part of the Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space. He became a Professor of Architecture at the Technion throughout much of his later life and he made a significant contribution to the Prussian academic discipline in the country.

He also designed numerous other buildings in Palestine , and in 1925 Alexander had settled there permanently. There he was acclaimed for introducing academic architecture to the country. He designed the Anglo-Palestine Bank in 1924.

By the late 1920s he had designed the Central Hospital, Afula in 1928, and the Phillips House, in Haifa (1929–30) shortly before his death in 1930.

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• A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Oxford University Press.

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