Architect Dan Eitan receives the Israel Prize for Architecture and Design from the then Minister of Education Naftali Bennett, 2019 (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
The Israeli architect Dan Eitan passed away yesterday, at the age of 91. Eitan was one of the most senior architects in Israel and among the well-known buildings he designed are the Tel Aviv Museum of Art building, the national headquarters of the police in Jerusalem, civil buildings in the reactor complex in Dimona, the Mexico building at Tel Aviv University, the City Tower In
Jerusalem and more.
Throughout his long career, Eitan won prestigious awards for his work, among them the Richter Award, which he won in 1965 for designing the Tel Aviv Museum building together with the architect Yitzhak Ishar, with whom Eitan had a partnership until 1966, when he opened his own independent office.
Even after the split of the partnership between him and the architect Ishar, the two continued to collaborate on projects - one of them was the design of the Mexico building at Tel Aviv University, for which they won the Rochach award for architecture.
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A statement issued on behalf of the Tel Aviv Museum tonight reads: "The Tel Aviv Museum of Art bows its head in appreciation and says goodbye with deep pain to Israel Architecture Prize laureate Prof. Dan Eitan (1931-2023), architect, educator and man of culture. Starting in the mid-1950s, Eitan built many architectural projects who contributed to the development of the country and the consolidation of its residential patterns as well as its cultural institutions. At the same time, Eitan contributed to the consolidation of space by planning cities in Israel and Iran. Eitan taught for many years at the Technion and led public activities and struggles.
Eitan was a fellow at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, who thanks him for that, together with Yitzhak Ishar We designed our main building. The building, which was inaugurated in 1971, is a masterpiece of architectural planning and became an architectural icon upon its inauguration. May his memory be blessed."
Eitan left behind four children, seven grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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