Pinhas Huett

Pinhas Huett was born in 1888 in Lviv

Pinhas Huett was born in 1888 in Lviv, in Galicia. His father, Hermann Zvi Huett, was a painter. He went to high school in his hometown and then studied architecture at the polytechnic in Czernowitz.

In 1925 he first came to the Land of Israel as a guest of the Hebrew University at its opening. On the ship he met Hava Pigovsky, whom he married in 1927. He lived briefly in Jerusalem, then chose Tel Aviv, and after closing his affairs in Poland he opened an office at 23 Nachmani Street.

He worked with the architect Bratler, a classmate from Lviv. Many of his houses stand in central Tel Aviv, around Rothschild Boulevard, and he took part in planning the city's White City. His early houses were eclectic in style, and he later moved to the International Style.

In 1928 he designed the Levant Fair, on the site of the old central bus station. He also served as city architect of Tel Aviv and built the Great Synagogue in Mazkeret Batya. He was a Freemason, died in 1949, and was buried in Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery.