Zvi Hecker, born in 1931 in Krakow, Poland After 1945 School of Architecture at the Krakow Polytechnic, Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Avni Academy of Art in Tel Aviv until 1957. From 1959 - 1968 practice in Tel-Aviv with Eldar Sharon and Alfred Neumann. In 1991 Zvi Hecker moved to Berlin. Zvi Hecker was a visiting professor at Universities in the US and Canada, guest professor at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna and continues to lecture frequently at numerous schools of Architecture. In 1991 he represented, with others, Israel at the 5th Venice Biennale of Architecture, and took part in the 6th, 7th, 9th and 10th Biennale of Architecture in Venice in 1996, 2000 and 2004, 2006 respectively.