Yehuda Magidovitch belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Yehuda Magidovitch as Israeli architect (1886–1961).
Yehuda Magidovitch was born at Uman in 1886. His recorded nationality is Russian Empire.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Russian Empire shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Yehuda Magidovitch died in 1961, aged 75. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
