Architecture

Morocco is launching a renovation of Casablanca’s Beth El synagogue, the city’s most beautiful.

Larbi Arbaoui
March 25 2015 12:01AM

As violence has shaken the Arab world from Libya to Iraq, numerous Jewish religious sites have been effaced—both synagogues and putative tombs of biblical prophets.. . .

Ksenia Svetlov
Nov. 10 2014 12:01AM

During its 90-year reign, the “Latin Kingdom” rehabilitated ancient landmarks and built and rebuilt churches, leaving an enduring mark on the city’s architecture.

Jack Meinhardt
Sept. 15 2014 12:01AM

Jewish home designers and architects, many of them refugees from Hitler, helped shape an enduringly influential and distinctly American aesthetic. 

Steven Heller
June 9 2014 12:01AM

Political scandals aside, Israel’s capital city is suffering from a wave of degraded architecture and offensive urban design.  

Julie Rosenzweig
May 15 2014 12:01AM

The architectural look of 19th-century synagogues in Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and London reflected the look of Jewish emancipation and assimilation in each country.

Vladimir Levin
Aug. 16 2013 12:00AM