David Resnick
David Resnick was a Brazilianborn Israeli architect and town planner whose awards include the Israel Prize in architecture and the Rechter Prize. Resnick,whose name is sometimes spelled in English as Reznik or Reznick, is a past director of the Israeli Architects Association, and is known as one of Israels most celebrated modern architects.
Resnick was born in Rio de Janeiro, where he was raised in a secular Zionist home. He edited his schools student newspaper, and was hiredwhile still a studentby the firm of Oscar Niemeyer, the greatest Brazilian architect of the 20th century. Resnick worked alongside Niemeyer for four years, stating that during that time he learned the modernist principles of architecture from Niemeyer, whom Resnick describes as a revolutionary and a genius.
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