Munio Weinraub

Munio Gitai Weinraub
Munio Gitai Weinraub
	Munio Gitai Weinraub, Bauhaus, 1930
Born	March 6, 1909; Szumlany, Austrian Galicia
Died	September 24, 1970 (aged 61); Haifa, Israel
Occupation	Architect
Years active	1932-1970
Known for	Administration and library building, Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Jerusalem (1953-1955); The Hydraulic Institute, Technion, Haifa (1953-1956); Meiser Institute for Jewish Studies, Givat-Ram Campus, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1955-1957); Lighthouse for the Blind, Kiryat Haim (1956-1958); Kiryat Hamemshala, Jerusalem;
Spouse	Efratia Munchik Margalit (1936-death)
Children	Gideon Gitai (1940-2019); Amos Gitai;

Munio Gitai Weinraub (March 6, 1909 – September 24, 1970) was a Polish-born Jewish architect who was part of the Bauhaus movement in Israel. Throughout his 36-year career, he was responsible for the planning and construction of thousands of housing units, including workers' housing and private homes in and around Haifa.

Weinraub also took part in the initial planning of the Hebrew University campus in Givat Ram and the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem. From the beginning of his career, Weinraub sought to combine the values of Hannes Meyer's social planning with the construction art of his mentor and teacher Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. As such, his works are generally characterized by minimalist geometry. Similar to Mies van der Rohe, Weinraub chose to give up "problems of form" in order to dedicate himself to "problems of construction" and focus on engineering, the treatment of the material, and the processing of the architectural individual.