ABSTRACT
Architectural accounts of modern buildings often include pictorial and textual documentation of their construction process. The presence of the construction site brings into complex, ambiguous interplay the design intentions invested in the building, the process of its making and its reception. Such images may have several diverging motivations. This chapter examines the status of the construction site in historical accounts of modern architecture. It examines the construction site of the Tel Aviv museum addition as a case study of non-simultaneity. The chapter utilizes Preston Scott Cohen's 2010 addition to the Tel Aviv Museum as a case study of non-simultaneity. Its construction site is examined dialectically, through the tension between global and local conditions of its production and consumption. The making of modernism into Israel's dominant architectural expression is inseparable from its ideology of labour, although this connection is seldom discussed in architectural histories of Israeli architecture.
