Israel's architecture scene is thriving, according to architect Asaf Mann, who likens it to the Bauhaus boom in Tel Aviv during the 1930s and 1940s.
New public buildings, infrastructure developments and talented young local architects are contributing to the creative boom said Mann, who is a principal architect at his father's practice Amir Mann-Ami Shinar Architects in Tel Aviv.
Asaf Mann spoke to Dezeen about the booming architecture scene in Israel
"There's something very inspiring happening once again in Israel," Mann told Dezeen.
"Before that, the last inspirational moment was back in the 1960s and 70s, or even the Bauhaus period and the initial planning initiative."
Contemporary projects to surpass Bauhaus architecture Israel's built environment was strongly impacted by the Bauhaus, the German design school that had a major influence on modernist architecture.
Jews who studied at the school, or were influenced by its teachings, emigrated to the region to flee persecution during the interwar years.
As a result, Tel Aviv contains the world's largest collection of Bauhaus buildings.
Mann's firm, Amir Mann-Ami Shinar Architects, completed the new Ramon Airport in the Negev desert with Moshe Zur Architects earlier this year
However, Mann believes the current era of development will far outweigh Bauhaus architecture in terms of quality, as buildings in that period were often built cheaply and quickly to provide mass housing to accommodate the surge of i...