Tucker, Bennett

Bennett Tucker held a career as an officer on international cargo ships before transitioning to academia and earning masters’ degrees at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His interest in Reuven Rubin began after discovering unpublished documents on Rubin at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. He is currently completing his PhD at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology where he researches the transfer and cross-cultural communication of modern architecture and furniture design between Central Europe and practitioners of modernism in the British Mandate of Palestine during the 1930s. He has published in the Journal of Design History and The Burlington Magazine and frequently contributes news correspondence and exhibition reviews to Israeli and American publications.