• Hive Talkin’

   

   

  Slovenian artist Marjetica Potrč’s work often investigates the clash between the strict order of modernism’s architectural and urban schemes and their inhabitants’ needs and desires. Her 2011 installation, In a New Land, reconstructs a single module of Zvi Hecker’s Ramot Polin housing project, nicknamed “the Beehive” for its distinctive structure. The work includes an example of one of the self-built rectangular additions which many inhabitants have added to the dodecahedral layout, which “interrupt” the project’s strict formal coherence. Potrč presents this action as an inspiring, bottom-up critique of modern concepts of a “functional city” and as a “balkanisation” of an ideology that puts the purity of form before people’s freedom of choice in determining how they want to live. p (fh)

  Marjetica Portč: “In a New Land” at Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, 2011.
  (Photo: Gerhard Kassner, courtesy the artist and the gallery)

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Zvi Hecker
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Space Packers

  Zvi Hecker’s career-defining partnership with Eldar Sharon and Alfred Neumann by Rafi Segal

  Text: Rafi Segal
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Housing for the Displaced

  Ein Rafa, Israel

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Palmach Museum of History

  Tel Aviv, Israel

  Text: George Kafka
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  Essentially I am a Medieval Architect

  An interview with Zvi Hecker by Vladimir Belogolovsky

  Text: Vladimir Belogolovsky
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Mountain Highs

  Hecker’s colossal city visions

  Text: George Kafka
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Koningin Máxima Kazerne

  Amsterdam Airport Schipol, The Netherlands

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• VIEWPOINT

  VIEWPOINT

  The Technion Affair

  Breaking and entering in the name of architectural integrity by Zvi Hecker

  Text: Zvi Hecker
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Fitting Furniture

  Modules from Montreal

  Text: George Kafka
• PHOTO ESSAY

  PHOTO ESSAY

  Revisiting Yesterday’s Future

  A photo essay by Gili Merin

  Text: Gili Merin
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  A Different Language

  Polygons against postmodernism in Jerusalem

  Text: Rafi Segal
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Hive Talkin’

  Balkanising Zvi with Marjetica Potrč

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Tokyo International Forum

  Tokyo, Japan

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Rubble Rouser

  Ruins of good intentions

  Text: George Kafka
• VIEWPOINT

  VIEWPOINT

  I Draw Because I Have to Think

  The mind of the architect artist

  Text: Zvi Hecker
• KLAUSTOON

  KLAUSTOON

  Klaustoon

  XXVII (II): Cross Polin Nation

  Text: Klaus
• FURTHER READING

  FURTHER READING

  Further Reading
• NEXT

  NEXT

  Next

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