Lotte Cohn - Pioneer Woman Architect in Israel

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“My work was, and remains to the present day, in the literal sense that which was known at the time by the catchphrase: Bnjan Haarez (the construction of the country).” Lotte Cohn

Lotte Cohn (1893-1983) was a pioneer. Born in Berlin, she was one of the first women to graduate in architecture from the TH Charlottenburg (later: Technical University of Berlin). Her career path - at the time untypical for a woman – made her also a pioneer of the avant-garde in her profession.

In 1921 her Zionist ideals led her to British mandated Palestine where, as the first qualified female architect in the country, she took a leading role in the architectural development of modern Israel. In doing so, she evolved a formal idiom that was defined as much by the search for a “Jewish ‘National’ or ‘Homeland’ style” as by the architecture of the New Objectivity and the Bauhaus.

A first in Germany, this exhibition is dedicated entirely to the biography of this extraordinary 20th c. woman. Contemporary photos, plans and Lotte Cohn’s personal albums impressively bring to life her recently rediscovered work.

An exhibition by the Foundation New Synagogue Berlin – Centrum Judaicum and the Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv.