Avraham Yasky ^People

Early in his career he worked in the office of pioneering Israeli architect Arieh Sharon, later, he planned Rabin Square with Shimon Povsner, aged just 25. He went on to found the school of architecture at the Tel Aviv University and, in 1965, established Israel's largest architectural firm with partners Joseph Sivan and Yitzhak Moore.MYS (Moore Yasky Sivan Architects) are responsible for many of Tel Aviv's defining skyscrapers, including the envelope of the Azrieli Centre and the iconic beachfront Opera Tower, as well as numerous commercial buildings in the city centre, such as the Platinum, Alrov and AFI Towers. Yasky made his name with his 1960s quarter kilome-tre apartments, working primarily with concrete - they were functional, monochroma-tic, modernist buildings. Later, his style would shift away from brutalism towards the possibilities of glass - a feature of many of the commercial projects he built - as well as more ornamental elements, seen in the shopping malls and pink-tiled towers that typify his later work. Known for the flexibility and indifference with which he often faced stylistic and ethical issues, Yasky - who passed away in 2014, aged 87 - argued his success was simply down to good intuition and common sense. Now, the ideas behind his successes are to be explored through plans, photographs and other documentary materials relating to hundreds of Yasky projects, at a dynamic exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.