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Architect Paul Mandelstam turned 150 in 2022. He is one of the most prominent building designers of his generation, an architect who worked freely in various styles, leaving Riga with buildings that we are still proud of today – this is how the author of this work, architect and architectural researcher Janis Lejnieks, describes Paul Mandelstam. Little is known about Paul Mandelstam's private life, it is only known that he was a passionate motorcyclist. The architect's life was tragically cut short during the German occupation in the summer of 1941. Paul Mandelstam created buildings in three styles - eclecticism, Art Nouveau and functionalism. Why did the Jewish architect Paul Mandelstam turn to functionalism in cosmopolitan Riga after the First World War? He had already built eclectic and Art Nouveau buildings, and neo-eclecticism flourished in Latvia after Ulmanis's 1934 coup, but Mandelstam remained faithful to the Bauhaus ideals - form follows function, less is more, and truth is determined by materials. The book was published with the financial support of the State Cultural Capital Fund and the Latvian Council of Jewish Congregations and Communities.
