Salman Schocken - Schocken House

Schocken House

The home of Salman Schocken is on Rehov Peretz-Smolenskin in Rehavia (aka Rechavia), a neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. It was also designed by Erich Mendelsohn. The building, constructed of Jerusalem stone between 1934 and 1936, was originally surrounded by a spacious 1.5-acre (6,100 m2) garden. In 1957, the property was sold to the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, which invited another architect, Joseph Klarvin, to design an additional front wing of classrooms facing the street. Klarvin also added a third story, dispensing with the pergolas and blocking over the oval pool in the courtyard.