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Carl Rubin

Carl Rubin was an architect who designed many international style buildings in Tel Aviv, including Beit Hadar, the city's first office building.

1899 to 1955International style buildings in Tel AvivDesigning Beit HadarRemodeling Dizengoff House

Born: 24 June 1899, Galicia
Died: 7 February 1955
Occupation: architect

Carl Rubin was born in 1899 in Galicia

Carl Rubin was born in 1899 in Sniatyn, Galicia, then under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied architecture in Vienna.

In 1920 he moved to the Land of Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. There he worked with Alexander Baerwald and then with the architect Richard Kauffmann. In 1931 he joined the Berlin office of Erich Mendelsohn, whose style shaped his later work.

In 1932 he returned to Tel Aviv and opened his own office. He remodeled Meir Dizengoff's home into the Tel Aviv Museum, the building later known as Independence Hall. He designed homes on Rothschild Boulevard and Beit Hadar, the first Tel Aviv building with a steel frame.

In 1938 he designed a palace in Baghdad for the personal physician of King Faisal. In 1941 he designed, with Yitzhak Yavetz, a building for the Hebrew University archaeological collection on Mount Scopus. In 1943 he designed the city hall of Damascus.

His last design was the ORT textile school in Ramat Gan. He died in 1955 after a serious illness and was buried in the old cemetery of Herzliya. He was survived by his wife, Margot.