PORTLAND–Zvi Hecker, internationally renowned architect of Berlin and Tel Aviv, will give an illustrated talk about his recent work in Israel and Germany at an April 20 lecture, sponsored by the University of Oregon Portland Architecture Program.

The lecture, which is open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 20, at St. Mary’s Academy, 1615 S.W. Fifth Ave. in Portland.

Hecker’s architecture–the subject of four books, numerous articles and exhibitions around the world–uses the crystalline geometry of nature as a metaphor.

Hecker’s best-known buildings are the Heinz Galinski Jewish School in Berlin; the Jewish Cultural Center in Duisburg, Germany; the Veterans Memorial Center in Tel Aviv; the Yitzhak Rabin Palmach Center, also in Tel Aviv; the Spiral Apartment House in Ramut-Gan, Israel; and the "Sunflower" Civic Center in Ramat Hasharon, Israel.

Born in Cracow Poland, Hecker immigrated to Israel and graduated from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and from the Avni Academy in Tel Aviv. He established his practice in Tel Aviv in 1959.

Admission to the talk is $10 for non-students and $5 for full-time students. Doors and ticket sales open at 6:30 p.m.

For information, call (541) 346-3656.

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