Zvi Hecker
Zvi Hecker ( Hebrew צבי הקר; * May 31, 1931 in Krakow , Poland ) is an Israeli architect .
Life
Hecker's family fled to Siberia in 1939 and went to Samarkand in 1941 , thus avoiding the Nazi persecution of Jews in occupied Poland. His father was a lawyer and the family owned a bakery in Krakow. Hecker studied architecture from 1949 to 1950 at the Kraków Polytechnic 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 Alfred Neumann's office and from 1965 to 1968 with Eldar Sharon, one of Arieh Sharon's sons . He was involved in urban planning for Tel-Aviv , Montreal and Philadelphia . In 1968 he opened his own architecture office after Neumann's death. Since 1959 he has been teaching at several universities around the world. He was a member of the Association of Engineer and Architects in Israel and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada . Through a series of competition successes (including Bat Jam City Hall, Natanua City Hall, Military Camp in the Negev ) and his early buildings (including Club Mediterranée Ahziv - 1960, apartment building in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv - 1960/63, synagogue in Negev - 1967/70 and City-Center Project in Montreal - 1969/71) he became known and afterwards he carried out many international projects.
Since 1991 he has had an additional office in Berlin .
architecture
Hecker speaks an unusual architectural language that can be attributed to deconstructivism . If on the one hand his buildings take their function into account, on the other hand they present themselves as sculptures that are symbolically charged and follow geometric principles and mathematical foundations.
Works
From 1958 onwards, Zvi Hecker designed administration buildings and shopping centers primarily in Israel , but also in the Netherlands, Canada and Iran. A selection of other works:
- 1954 Monument to the War of Independence, Haifa
- 1970 Synagogue in the Negev desert
- 1972 Synagogue at Ben Gurion Airport , Tel-Aviv
- 1982/87 Yoseph Synagogue Ramot, Jerusalem
- 1986 Palm Springs (California) Art Museum , California
- 1990/95 Heinz Galinski School (Jewish Primary School), Berlin
- 1992 Anatol France School, Drancy , France
- 1992/96 Museum of the History of the Palmach , Ramat Aviv , Tel-Aviv
- 1996 Army Museum, Jerusalem
- 1996 "Place of Remembrance" - Memorial for the destroyed Lindenstrasse synagogue, Berlin
- 1995/99 Community center (with synagogue) of the Jewish community Duisburg-Mülheim / Ruhr-Oberhausen , Duisburg
- 1998 City Library, Haifa
- 1999 Jewish Community Center Mainz.
He also took part in numerous competitions, including a .:
- 1989 Bibliotheca Alexandrina , Alexandria
- 1989 Tokyo International Forum , Tokyo
- 1990 New Acropolis Museum , Athens
- 1996 Holocaust Memorial, Vienna
- 1997 New Synagogue , Dresden
- 1998 Sachsenhausen Memorial
- 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art, Constantini , Buenos Aires (competition entry)
and planned
- 1986 Educational Museum of Art , Palm Springs , California , USA in the shape of a Möbius loop .
Prices
Hecker received the German Critics' Prize for Architecture for the building of the Heinz Galinski School in Berlin in 1995 .
literature
- Zvi Hecker, Sketches, Edited by Andres Lepik , Ostfildern 2012 ISBN 978-3-7757-3383-0
- Zvi Hecker: The House of the Book. Photographs: Hélène Binet . Black Door Publications, London 1997, ISBN 1-901033-15-5 .
- Zvi Hecker, K. Feireiss, H.-J. Commerell: The Heinz Galinski School in Berlin. Wasmuth Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8030-2503-6 .
- D. Fleischer: Morphology of Hecker's geometry. In: The Architectural Review. 165.1979, p. 358.
- Antje Hansen: Hecker, Zvi . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 70, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023175-5 , pp. 520 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Zvi Hecker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Zvi Hecker. In: arch INFORM .
- historical photo of the synagogue in the Negev desert in: moderneREGIONAL
- Zvi Hecker Collection in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Mladen Petrov: Forgiving architecture , interview at Eurobuild Central & Eastern Europe, January 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hecker, Zvi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow , Poland |