This article examines the ways in which several key figures in Jewish architectural circles sought to create an appropriate style that would reflect their emerging national identity in British Mandate Palestine. I analyse the 1930s texts by two architects and educators at the Faculty of Architecture at the Technion Polytechnic, Yohanan Ratner and Julius Posener, whose efforts were motivated by a notion of belonging. Belonging or affirming a connection to a specific place, and creating architecture that reflected this connection, was a pressing question for architects in the pre-state Jewish settlement in Palestine, which was mainly populated by new immigrants. The article argues that Ratner (who immigrated to Palestine in 1923), and even more so Posener (who did so in 1935), addressed the notion of belonging by articulating a ‘local bearing’ for modern Israeli architecture. Stemming from a critical historiography of interwar modernism, ‘local bearing’ refers to the process of situating modern architecture, and claiming its historic and vernacular sources. I show that typological reflections, or the examination of architecture’s cultural and disciplinary history, became the means through which these architects sought to localise modern architecture.

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作为情境的类型学：英国托管巴勒斯坦现代方言的建筑辩证法

本文探讨了犹太建筑界的几位关键人物如何寻求创造一种适当的风格，以反映他们在英国托管巴勒斯坦地区新兴的民族身份。我分析了 Technion Polytechnic 建筑学院的两位建筑师和教育家 Yohanan Ratner 和 Julius Posener 的 1930 年代文本，他们的努力受到归属感的启发。归属或确认与特定地方的联系，并创造反映这种联系的建筑，对于巴勒斯坦建国前的犹太人定居点的建筑师来说，这是一个紧迫的问题，该定居点主要由新移民居住。文章认为，拉特纳（他于 1923 年移民到巴勒斯坦），尤其是波森纳（他于 1935 年移民到巴勒斯坦），通过阐明现代以色列建筑的“当地特色”来解决归属感的概念。源于两次世界大战之间现代主义的批判性历史编纂，“地方性”是指定位现代建筑的过程，并声称其历史和本土来源。我表明，类型学反思，或对建筑文化和学科历史的考察，成为这些建筑师试图将现代建筑本土化的手段。