Munio Weinraub

Munio Gitai Weinraub (1909–1970) was an Israeli architect. Some 8,000 buildings around the country, including the Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem and the central synagogue in Haifa are based on his designs.

Biography 

Munio Weinraub is an Israeli architect who studied at the Bauhaus school, with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and later worked under him on numerous projects. He later immigrated to Palestine and opened an architecture office despite never completing his formal studies.

Personal life and Books
Weinraub died in 1970. In 1994 Richard Ingersoll published the book titled Munio Gitai Weinraub: Bauhaus architect in Eretz Israel. Centre Pompidou also released a book on Weinraub in 2001.

Weinraub's son is filmmaker Amos Gitai, whose 2012 documentary, Lullaby to My Father, is a tribute to Weinraub.

See also
Architecture of Israel

References

External links
The Munio Weinraub Architecture Museum website. Israeli and international architecture, the relationship between Munio Weinraub and his son Amos Gitai, events. Opened in 2012 in Weinraub's former studio.
Mies van der Rohe letter to Munio, August 1931
Architecture and Film: Munio Weinraub and Amos Gitai, by Jane Czyzselska, Blueprint Magazine, 20 Aug. 2009
Munio Weinraub and Amos Gitai, at artinfo.com

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