Haifa - Old Technion

A few hundred yards southwest of the Town Hall in Haifa is the Old Technion (College of Technology; the larger New Technion is in the southeastern district of Qiryat HaTechnion). The Old Technion was built between 1914 and 1924 to the design of a Berlin architect, Alexander Baerwald; it combines Oriental features with western ideas on the organization of space. The Old Technion now houses the Institute of Architecture and the Museum of Science and Technology, which illustrates simple scientific principles and the results of recent Israeli research.