Artur Glikson (Arthur Glücksohn) was a German and later Israeli architect, author, city, and regional planner. After being forced to leave Germany under Nazi terror, he started to work as an architect in Israel in the city government of Petah Tikva or Jerusalem. He created master plans and social housing projects for the cities of Kiryat Mozkin, Kiryat Gat, Tel Aviv, Ashod, and Carmel as well as school buildings in Be’er Sheva. From 1948-58 he was head of the Department of Regional Planning in the Planning Division of the Ministry of the Interior Israel, and from 1953 onwards he headed the planning section for housing in Israel. Glikson was a very important transnational figure, who brought new ideas discussed in the post-war high-modernist climate to the Israeli city planning discourses. Thus, he was leading the building programs for development town planning in Israel and also contributed his conceptual ideas to the building of the model neighborhood of Be'er Sheva. He was an associated member of the Team 10 group in the early 1960s and in close contact with the Le Carré Bleu group initiated by André Schimmerling and therefore in contact with the ideas of French urbanism and the team of Candilis, Josic, and Woods. He was a very influential writer and teacher and established the concept of regional planning, as a situated modernism that learned from vernacular architecture to create new planning methodologies related to local contexts. In 1964 he started the first regional planning project on Crete (Greece) that was also highly influenced by the ideas of Louis Mumford and Clarence Perry. (MvO)



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James M Mayo, «The ideologies of Artur Glikson», in: Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 2004, Heft 21, S. 99-101.