Zvi Hecker in the Ostrava House of Art

Zvi Hecker - was born in 1931 in Krakow, grew up in Samarkand, studied architecture at the Technion in Haifa and painting at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. He taught architecture at Laval University in Quebec and at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 1960, he began his practical work in Tel Aviv, and since 1991 he has been working in Berlin.
His works in Israel include the town hall in Bat Yam in Tel Aviv and apartments in the Dubiner House (together with Alfred Neumann and Eldar Sharon), spiral apartments in Ramat Gan, the Palmach Museum in Tel Aviv (together with Rafi Segal) and the military academy complex in the Negev Desert.
In Europe, he designed the Jewish school of Heinz Galinsky in Berlin and a memorial with symbolic rows of benches for the former synagogue on Lindenstrasse in Berlin (together with Eyal Weizmann and Misha Ullman), a Jewish cultural center in Duisburg, and Queen Maxima's barracks at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.
In 1991, he represented Israel alongside other architects at the 5th Architectural Biennale in Venice and participated in the 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th biennials. His work is exhibited in galleries and museums in many countries.
Zvi Hecker has won several architectural competitions. In 1996, he was awarded the German Critics' Prize for Architecture and in 1999 the Rechter Prize for Architecture in Israel. Since 2013, he has been an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. He lives and works in Berlin.