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Article: Scholastic sunflower. (architect Zvi Hecker designs Jewish school in Berlin, Germany)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1996
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In the first Jewish school built in Berlin since the Nazi times, Zvi Hecker has used his obsession with geometry to generate a network of memorable particular places to act as a humane backdrop to education.
The borders of Wilmersdorf and Grunewald offer that calm, leafy background of loose-fit into which villas, highways, a bombastic Olympic Stadium or a metal-sheathed congress hall can be dropped without disturbance: only just an identifiable context, if you exclude the trees. The site of Hecker's last major building, the Spiral in Ramat Gan, on the edge of Tel Aviv (AR October 1990) might be similarly described as an absorptive condition in which to sit a powerful ...