The Church of the Annunciation, is located in Nazareth, Israel. It is two churches in one – the current, modern structure seen above ground was built atop earlier shrines and conceived by the Italian architect Giovanni Muzio.

Antonio Barluzzi (1884-1960) was an Italian architect who became know as the Architect of the Holy Land. The Franciscans asked him to design and build churches atop the ruins of Byzantine and Crusader churches In all he completed 24 churches, hospitals and schools between 1912 and 1955.

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 when 66 Jewish families combined resources to purchase land north of Jaffa. Development halted during WWI and resumed in 1921 sent many Jews north to Tel Aviv. Jewish architects fleeing Nazi Germany set about designing apartment buildings in modernist Bauhaus style.