# Liebling House **Built:** 1936 **Location:** 29 Idelson Street, Tel Aviv **Architect:** Dov Karmi **Engineer:** Tzvi Barak **Current role:** White City Center **Domain:** Architecture / Conservation / Public Education **Doc Type:** Building and Institution Node **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[White City of Tel Aviv]], [[International Style]], [[Tel Aviv Bauhaus Walk]], [[Maintenance]], [[Stewardship]] --- ## Definition **Liebling House** is a 1936 International Style residential building in Tel Aviv that now houses the White City Center, a municipal and German-Israeli institution devoted to the conservation, study and public interpretation of [[White City of Tel Aviv|Tel Aviv’s White City]]. ## Architectural Significance Designed by Dov Karmi with engineer Tzvi Barak, the building uses recessed balconies, horizontal openings and carefully mediated light to adapt modernist form to local climate. It belongs to the Bialik-area layer of the White City and sits near buildings from other periods, making stylistic change visible within a short walk. ## Conservation as Active Knowledge Its present use is as important as its original design. The center treats preservation as research, training, civic education and continuing urban negotiation. This makes Liebling House an institutional interface among [[Maintenance]], [[Stewardship]], architectural history and living city governance. ## Corpus Function Liebling House demonstrates that an ontology of design cannot end at appreciation. Buildings persist through documentation, expertise, law, repair, funding and public understanding. It is therefore a small but concrete case of [[Infrastructure as Power]] directed toward cultural continuity. ## Sources / Provenance - [Liebling Haus / White City Center — About](https://www.whitecitycenter.org/about) - [Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality — Liebling House](https://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Visitors/ArtCulture/Pages/whitecity.aspx)