Zvi Hecker

Born in Poland in 1931, Zvi Hecker spent his teenage years in Samarkand and
in Krakow before moving to Israel in 1950.

His more recent work includes the Ramat Housing project in Jerusalem, the Sunflower Multipurpose Center for Ramat Hasharon, and the Spiral Apartment House in Ramat Gan. He has won a number of architectural competitions, including the Jewish Community School in Berlin and the Palmach Museum of History in Tel Aviv, now under construction.
Among his early works are the Club Mediterranee in Arziv, the City Hall of Bat Yam, the Military Academy in the Negev Desert, the Debonair Apartment House in Ramat Gan, and the laboratory Building at the Technion, Haifa. He studied architecture at Krakow Polytechnic (1949 1950) and the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology at Haifa (1950 1954), where he received his degree in engineering and architecture in 1955. He also studied painting at the Avni Academy of Tel Aviv (1955 1957). Following two years of military service in the Corps of Engineers of the Israeli army, he set up private practice in 1959, working with Alfred Neumann until 1996, and with Eldar Sharon until 1964. Hecker was visiting professor at the Laval University School of Architecture in Quebec, Canada (1969 1972), Distinguished Foreign lecturer at the University of Texas School of Architecture in Arlington (1977), Visiting Architect at the Washington University School of Architecture, St. Louis (1979), Visiting Professor at the Iowa State University School of Architecture (1980), and visiting lecturer at numerous schools throughout Europe and the United States.

March 7, 2001