Zvi Hecker
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Zvi Hecker (born May 31, 1931 in Kraków, Poland) is an Israeli architect with offices in Berlin and Amsterdam.[1]
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[edit] Move to Israel and study
Hecker emigrated to Israel in 1950. He studied architecture in the Israel Institute of Technology, graduating in 1955. Between 1955 and 1957, he studied painting at the Avni Institute.
[edit] Work with Sharon and Neumann
After his military service, he founded a firm with Eldar Sharon (until 1964) and Alfred Neumann (until 1966). Their joint works include the Mediterranean Sea Club in Achzib (1960-1961), the Bat Yam city hall (1963-1961), and the Chaim Laskov Officer Training School (1963-1967), the main officer training school of the Israel Defense Forces. Their designed were often inspired by the Japanese Metabolist Movement, borrowing metaphoric shapes from nature for use in planning morphological structures. The physical and economic conditions in Israel at the time, allowed them to complete a fair number of works in a relatively brief period of time, which for a short while brought international attention.
[edit] Later and ongoing work
His projects, such as the Spiral Apartment House in Ramat Gan, Israel, are noted for a high degree of formal and spatial complexity. This building's complexity parallels and even pre-dates similar buildings by Frank Gehry as the Weisman Art Museum or the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein. Though using relatively simple materials and drafting tools, Zvi Hecker is able to achieve advanced architecture, a Postmodern architecture suggested by Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Hecker mostly resides and teaches in Berlin, and has been largely involved in planning projects related for the German Jewish community. Some of his later works are the Jewish School in Duisburg (1996-1999) and, with Rafi Segal, the Palmach Museum in Tel Aviv (1995-Present).
[edit] Works
- 1969-1971 Synagogue, Military Academy Campus, Negev Desert[1]
- 1981-1989 Spiral Apartment Building, Ramat-Gan[1]
- 1992-1995 Jewish Primary School, Berlin[1]
[edit] Reference
- ^ a b c d Curl, James Stevens [2006]. A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Paperback), Second (in English), Oxford University Press, 880. ISBN 0198606788.
