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Architect in the Kibbutz - Vitorio Corinaldi

The text is taken from the Publishing house's website, translated to English.

"Architect Vittorio Corinaldi's planning-design approach, which has its roots in Brazilian architecture, gave him a unique status among his Israeli colleagues, who were mostly educated at the Technion in Haifa, or at European institutions.
By choosing to leave Brazil, immigrate to Israel and join Kibbutz Bror-Hayil, he determined not only the course of his personal life, but also his professional one.
Corinaldi tells the story of his life in this book, starting from his childhood in Italy where he was born in 1931 under the shadow of fascism, the displacement and flight of his family to Brazil where he grew up, was educated and educated, and up to his immigration to Israel, joining the kibbutz and the cooperative life. Alongside these, his many years of activity in the movement's planning department are described. At the heart of the book is presented a selected variety of his works throughout the country, over the years, until he left the kibbutz.
The book is accompanied by nearly 350 drawings of the works designed by Corinaldi, as well as historical and contemporary photographs and documents. The book Architect in the Kibbutz, edited by the architect and architectural researcher Michael Jacobson, photographed by Itay Ayalon, sees the light of day in the midst of war and crisis, whose extent of damage is still being estimated. It is also not clear what happened to those buildings that Corinaldi designed in the settlements that were attacked. It will be a record of the life that was".

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