After the selection of the area in which the campus would be expanded, the design of the new Technion City was entrusted to Alexander Klein. Klein was not only a professor of architecture at the Technion and the founder and head of the city planning division in the Faculty of Architecture at the Technion, but also one of the leading city planners in Israel and around the world.
In Russia, his homeland, he designed workers’ housing, hospitals, clubs and community centers. At the same time, he participated in and won international competitions. In 1920, his family immigrated to Germany, where he continued his research and practical work and specialized in the field of public housing. His important practical works from that time include a housing project with a thousand housing units for employees of the Vienna factories in Bad-Dürnberg near Merseburg and large housing projects in and around Berlin.
With the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933, he had to stop his practical and research work. In 1935, when he was 56 years old, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and started working as an urban planning consultant for the National Fund for Israel. Klein created about 70 construction and housing plans for the suburbs of Haifa, the Bay and Mount Carmel, Tiberias, Beer Sheva, the Dead Sea, Netanya, Jerusalem and other areas of the country, apartment buildings, public buildings, businesses and more. Prof. Alexander Klein’s plan for Technion City was based on a green axis with the buildings of the various faculties on either side. In the 1960s, the face of the campus changed thanks to a new plan.