Moshe Hellner was born in 1923 and educated at school in New York, attending Canisius College, in Buffalo, from aged 15, before transferring to the University of Buffalo and then the Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, from 1946-48. His practice, Moshe Hellner Ltd., was established in Jerusalem in 1958. He is subsequently recorded as taking the 1969 entrance examination for the Architectural Association (AA), in London, and being admitted on an exceptional ‘roving study’ basis, allowing him to construct his own education, in discussion with members of the AA staff. For the following year, Hellner is recorded as electing to study on the postgraduate programme run by the AA’s Department of Development and Tropical Studies. He was tutored by Michael Safier and duly completed the course, graduating in the summer of 1971. In the same year he published ‘An Alternative to the Layout Patterns of the 1968 Master Plan for Jerusalem’ but details of his later career are not yet known to us.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register, 1970-71. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Register’s Student Records, 1969-71. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership Register, 1974. AA Archives
• Hellner, M. ‘An Alternative to the Layout Patterns of the 1968 Master Plan for Jerusalem’, 1971.