Re-conceptualizing the Israeli Modern Landscape
Reut Yarnitsky (Dissertation In Preparation)
A postcard from Israel
DISSERTATION
My research seeks to understand the different ‘geographies’, symbols, literal and visual imaginaries, and subterranean constructions, that were the raw materials from which the land of Israel as a national modern entity was shaped. I offer a new methodological model based on the identification of ‘Topologies’, as a way of tracing the transformation of different historical conceptual structures concerning the land of Israel into modern national frameworks. By widening my research beyond the immediate political, social and cultural contexts of the modern architects and planners working in Palestine and in the state of Israel, I hope to expand the narrow historical outlook of the current Israeli architectural historiography.