ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the partnership between Arieh Sharon and his son Eldar, who joined his father's office in 1965. Eldar Sharon completed his architectural studies at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1956, under the supervision of Prof. Alfred Neumann. After his graduation, he worked on several projects with Zvi Hecker, who had graduated from the Technion a year earlier. In 1959, Eldar Sharon and Hecker won the competition for the design of the Bat Yam Municipality building and asked Prof. Neumann to join them working on the project. After this partnership ended, Eldar joined his father and introduced into the office design principles based on complex geometry and Brutalist architecture. Eldar's ideas about architecture were accepted by his father because of their structuralist and universal approach. During their 20-year partnership, until Arieh Sharon's death in 1984, the father and son designed residential buildings, hospital buildings, high-rise office towers and more. As the years passed, Eldar increasingly took charge of the office and he led the office after his father's death.
