Avraham Yaski

Avraham Yaski (Hebrew: אברהם יסקי‎) is an Israeli architect. Avraham Yaski was born in Chişinău, Romania (now Moldova) on 14 April 1927. He immigrated to Palestine with his family in 1935. Yaski studied at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. 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, and later the Tel Aviv City Hall on the square. Early works by Yaski, such as the "quarter-kilometer apartments" of 1960 with Amnon Alexandroni, were primarily of concrete. In 1965, Avraham Yaski founded the architectural firm now known as Moore Yaski Sivan Architects. From 1987 to 1991 he was an assistant professor at the Technion. In 1994, he established...