{{Short description|Israeli architect (1927–2014)}} {{Infobox person | name = Avraham Yasky | native_name = אברהם יסקי | native_name_lang = he | image = אברהםיסקי2011.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Avraham Yasky in 2011 | birth_date = {{birth date|1927|4|14}} | birth_place = {{Flag icon|Romania}} Chişinău, Romania (now Moldova) | death_date = {{death date and age|2014|3|28|1927|4|14}} | education = Technion | occupation = Architect | notable_works = Azrieli Center, YOO Towers, Tzameret Towers }}
'''Avraham Yasky''' ({{langx|he|אברהם יסקי}}; April 14, 1927 – March 28, 2014) was an Israeli architect.
==Biography== Yasky was born in Chişinău, Romania (now Moldova) on 14 April 1927. He immigrated to the Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1935. Yasky studied at the Technion. Early in his career he worked in the office of Arieh Sharon. At the age of 25 he made the plans for Rabin Square with Shimon Povsner,<ref name = "Zandberg 1997">Esther Zandberg, [https://www.haaretz.com/2007-04-08/ty-article/the-fountainhead/0000017f-e242-d75c-a7ff-fecf41610000 ''The fountainhead''] Haaretz, 9 April 2007</ref> and later the Tel Aviv City Hall on the square. Early works by Yasky, such as the "quarter-kilometer apartments" of 1960 with Amnon Alexandroni, were primarily of concrete.<ref>readingmachine, [http://readingmachine.co.il/home/books/1176366417 ''שרון רוטברד: אברהם יסקי ,אדריכלות קונקרטית''] accessed 30 March 2009</ref>
In 1965, Yasky founded the architectural firm now known as Moore Yasky Sivan Architects.<ref>Emporis, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040619152548/http://www.emporis.com/en/cd/cm/?id=103721 ''Moore Yasky Sivan Architects'']}} accessed 30 March 2009</ref> From 1987 to 1991 he was an assistant professor at the Technion.<ref>readingmachine, [http://readingmachine.co.il/home/contribs/1176299559 ''אברהם יסקי''] accessed 30 March 2009</ref> In 1994, he established the school of architecture at Tel Aviv University<ref>Shani Shilo, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021195834/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/pillars-of-their-profession-1.218813 ''Pillars of their profession''] Haaretz, 24 April 2007</ref> where he was the head of the department until 1998. As of 2006, Moore Yasky Sivan Architects is the largest architecture firm in Israel with 73 employees.<ref>Ido Efrati, [https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3217075,00.html#n ''"האדריכל יסקי: "השמיים הם גבול היצירתיות''] Ynet, 16 February 2006</ref> With this firm, Yasky contributed significantly to the urban development of Tel Aviv.<ref>Esther Zandberg, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080609235928/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/991054.html ''High on life''] Haaretz, 12 June 2008</ref> Projects such as the Azrieli Center created a chapter in the city's architectural history that highlighted the skyscraper and skyline.<ref>Esther Hecht, [http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/071226telaviv.asp ''Tel Aviv Develops Its Past Into the Future''] Architectural Record, 26 December 2007</ref> Later work by Yasky shifted somewhat from the use of concrete, in the era of brutalist architecture, to a brilliant architecture emphasising glass, "[a]nd yet, he unhesitatingly points to the "gray years" of building the country with exposed concrete - of which he made such widespread and amazing use - as the best period of his life and in the life of Israeli architecture.".<ref name = "Zandberg 1997" />
Yasky died on March 28, 2014, from natural causes at the age of 86.<ref>Selmon, Lev 28 March "Architect, Israel Prize laureate Prof. Avraham Yaski dies at 87," Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem) 28 March 2014 captured at 3:09 IST. https://www.jpost.com/Israel/Israeli-archictect-and-Israel-Prize-laureate-Professor-Avraham-Yaski-passed-away-on-Friday-at-the-age-of-87-346799</ref>
==Awards== In 1982, Yasky was awarded the Israel Prize, in architecture.<ref name=prize>{{Cite web| title = Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1982 (in Hebrew)| url = http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashlag/Tashmab_Tashlag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashmab}}</ref>
==See also== *Architecture of Israel *Housing in Israel *List of Israel Prize recipients
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *Sharon Rotbard, ''Avraham Yasky, Concrete Architecture'' (Hebrew ''אברהם יסקי, אדריכלות קונקרטית''), Tel Aviv: Babel, 2007
==External links== {{Commons category|Avraham Yaski}} *[https://www.aiq.co.il/pages/articles/39/yaski.html Fell off a lorry: An interview with architect Avraham Yaski]
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