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Zvi Hecker: Die Heinz-Galinski-Schule in Berlin. the Heinz-Galinski-School in Berlin

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Synopsis:
To design a Jewish school in Berlin, a half century after the end of World War II, is to step into controversy, political history, and cultural memory. But it is also a task that means stepping forward into the future, for the building was to house children and teachers. Designed by the Israeli architect Zvi Hecker, the Heinz-Galinski-School opened this past year to international acclaim for the sensitivity with which it responded to so many challenges. Hecker's imaginative plan, which won him the competition, was to create a building in the shape of a sunflower, an organic shape designed to provide an ideal and stimulating environment for creative learning. featured here in some 110 reproductions are Hecker's plans and drawings as well excellent color and black-and-white photographs of this innovative building and cultural symbol. Zvi Hecker was born in Poland in 1931 and moved to Israel in 1950. He represented Israel at the 1991 Venice Biennale.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1998, Hardcover - 1997