Elsa Mandelstamm Gidoni
General Information
Occupation: Architect
Date of Birth: 1901
Date of Death: 1978
Birth City: Riga
Birth Country: Latvia
Resident City: New York
Resident State/Province: New York
Resident Country: United States
Archive/Repository: Columbia University, New York, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Library of Congress (Design Collections), Washington, DC
Sources: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/architects-in-palestine-1920-1948, http://www.ikg.uni-karlsruhe.de/projekte/exilarchitekten/architekten/gidoni.htm
Specialties
Subject: Cafe Galina designed for the Levant Fair
Description: Galina cafe in Tel Aviv - Progressive international style
Notes: With Genia (Eugenie) Averbuch and Sha'ag
Subject: Apartments
Description: Block of flats / apartment house, Tel Aviv
Subject: Cafe/Restaurant
Description: Cafe-restaurant on the beach of Tel Aviv
Subject: Factories
Description: Various constructions for Chemical Engineering, New York
Subject: House
Description: House for a Dr M. Lenz, New Rochelle
Subject: Architect involved in the Levant Fair, The exhibits drove Modern architecture in Palestine
Description: Began transformation of Tel Aviv into the "white city."
Notes: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/architects-in-palestine-1920-1948
Jobs
Employer: Kahn & Jacobs,
Title: Structural engineer
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Employer: Meyer & Whittlesey
Title: associate
City: New York
Country: United States
Employer: Anthony Raymond
Title: associate
City: New Hope
Country: United States
Employer: Fellheim & Wagner
Title: associate
City: New York
Country: United States
Employer: Elsa Gidooni
Title: Principal
City: Berlin
Country: Germany
Start Date: January 01, 1929
End Date: January 01, 1933
Notes: emigrated to Palestine in 1933. Emigrated to USA in 1938.
Collaborators
Name: Kahn&Jacobs
Project: Seagram Building
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Notes: Kahn & Jacobs collaboration on many buildings and projects in New York and surrounding area
Apprenticeships
No apprenticeships on record
Awards
Name: Emeritus status
Exhibitions
Title: "Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective,"
Country: delete
Notes: shown in the traveling exhibition
Notable Projects
Title: Beit ha-Halutzot
Description: Home Economics School of the Women International Zionist Organization (WIZO), Tel Aviv, competition
City: Tel Aviv
Country: Palestinian
Title: House of the Pioneers
Description: Hachalutzot Beith, Tel Aviv, King George Str., Competition
City: Tel Aviv
Country: Palestinian
Title: Nursing Home
Description: Ramoth Haschavim, competition 1937
City: Tel Aviv
Country: Palestinian
Title: General Motors futurama pavillion
Description: At the 1939 World's Fair.
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Start Date: January 01, 1938
Url: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/architects-in-palestine-1920-1948
Education
Institution: Academy of St. Petersburg
Institution: Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg
Notes: no degree
Licensing
License: architect
Organization: New York State
Professional Affiliations
Organization: American Institute of Architects
Role: member/emeritus status
Publications By
Publications About
Title: Warhaftig
Publication: newspaper
Country: delete
Title: Warhaftig
Publication: newspaper
Country: delete
Title: The Palestine Post
Publication: newspaer
Country: delete
Date Published: July 18, 1934
Title: Habinjan Bamisrach Hakarov 1,
City: Tel Aviv
Country: Israel
Title: Habinjan Bamisrach Hakarov 3
City: Tel Aviv
Country: Israel
Title: Habinjan Bamisrach Hakarov 8,
City: Tel Aviv
Country: Israel
Title: Habinjan Bamisrach Hakarov 9 / 10,
City: Tel Aviv
Country: Israel
Title: Habinjan 1
City: Tel Aviv
Country: Israel
Title: The Palestine Post
Country: Israel
Date Published: May 04, 1937
Title: Women in American architecture. A historic and contemporary perspective
Author: Susana Torre
Publication: exhitbition catalogue
Country: Israel
Title: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentenniel
Author: Robert Stern, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman
Publication: book
City: New York
State: New York
Country: United States
Title: A Study of the Gidoni Elsa and Charles Goodman Collections
Author: Lily Chi
Country: United States
Notes: not published
Title: "Reconstructing a Lost History: Exiled Jewish Women Architects in America",
Author: Despina Stratigakos
Publication: The Transatlantic Jewish newspaper
Volume: LXVIII
Issue: 22
Country: United States
Date Published: October 31, 2002
Title: Sie legten den Grundstein: Leben und Wirken deutschsprachiger jüdischer Architekten in Palästina 1918–1948.
Author: Wahrhaftig, Myra
Publication: b
Publisher: Tubinger
City: Berlin
Date Published: January 01, 1996
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