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Yaacov Yaar
Yaacov Yaar (Hebrew: יעקב יער; born 1929) is an Israeli architect, who received the Israel Prize, Israeli prize for architecture in the year 2006 and the EMET Prize in the year 2014. Biography Yaar was born in Germany in 1929 and immigrated to Palestine (region), Palestine with his family at the age of five. He attended the Ohel Shem , Ohel Shem School in Ramat Gan, and the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, Gymnasia Herzlia in Tel Aviv. After completing high school he served in the Jewish Settlement Police and in the Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Defense Forces. Upon his release from military service in the fall of 1949, he studied architecture at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Technion, graduating Latin honors, cum laude in 1953, followed later by a diploma in Engineering (Arch). During his studies, he met his wife Ora Gerstenfeld, whom he married in 1954. The couple had two sons and a daughter. Gerstenfeld died in 1999 and today he lives with his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total population of over 84 million in an area of , making it the most populous member state of the European Union. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The Capital of Germany, nation's capital and List of cities in Germany by population, most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Settlement in the territory of modern Germany began in the Lower Paleolithic, with various tribes inhabiting it from the Neolithic onward, chiefly the Celts. Various Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |