Zvi Hecker

Zvi Hecker (Hebrew צבי הקר; born May 31, 1931 in Krakow ( Cracow ), Poland) is an Israeli architect.

Life

Hecker, born in Cracow, studied architecture at the Polytechnic of 1949-1950 Krakow and from 1950 to 1954 at the Technion ( Institute of Technology) in Haifa and painting from 1955 to 1957 at the Avni Academy in Tel Aviv. From 1958 to 1968 he was a partner in the office of Alfred Neumann and 1965-1968 with together with Eldar Sharon. He participated in the urban planning for Tel-Aviv, Montreal and Philadelphia. In 1968 he opened his own after the death of Neumann's architecture office. He took since 1959 lecturer at several universities worldwide true. He was a member of the Association of Engineer and Architects in Israel and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Through a series of successes in competitions (including Bat Yam City Hall, Natanua City Hall, Military Camp in the Negev ), and by his early buildings (including Club Mediterranée Ahziv - 1960, Apartment Building in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv - in 1960/ 63, the synagogue in Negev - 1967 /70 and City Center Project in Montreal - 1969 /71), he became known and he led then by many international projects.

He now lives and works in Berlin.

Architecture

Hecker speaks an unusual architectural language that can be attributed to the deconstruction. Wearing his building on the one hand their function statement, imagine the other as sculptures represent the symbolically charged and follow geometric principles and mathematical foundations.

Works

Zvi Hecker designed from 1958 to office buildings and shopping centers, especially in Israel, but also in the Netherlands, Canada and Iran. A selection of other works:

He also participated in numerous competitions, including:

Prices

Hecker received for the construction of Heinz Galinski School in Berlin in 1995 the German Critics Prize for Architecture.