Best known in Israel as founder of the Department of Artistic Ceramics at the Harsa[2] factory in Beersheba, Azaz made his studio base in Oxfordshire, England from the late 1960s onwards, working in stained glass, wood, concrete, bronze, brass, copper and aluminium.
Later, at the invitation of Yitzhak Rabin, then Israeli Ambassador in Washington, DC, Azaz - living in UK as artist in residence at Carmel College, UK, carved a 30 square metre walnut wood wall for the Israeli Lounge (along with a ceiling mural by artist Shraga Weil and painted fabric by Ezekiel Kimche) at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
His career as an architectural and stained glass artist then continued largely in US and UK, where he made his studio base and home in Oxfordshire from the late 1960s onwards.
Azaz's first commercial stained glass was a commission on board the Zim Lines cruise liner S/S Moledet, which routinely sailed between New York and Haifa in the early 1960s.
The largest wooden piece, entitled Old Testament Musical Instruments,[15] a 30 square metre carved walnut wall gifted by the State of Israel, is located in the Israeli Lounge[16] at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC.
Using lost styrofoam (polystyrene) or lost-wax casting, he realised a large collection of bronze work evolving from industrial style pieces in the 1960s to figurative and mythical based pieces in the 1980s making up part of the portfolio displayed at the International Contemporary Art Fair in 1986[28] Azaz created his own optical art variants, using painted canvas, plate metal or acrylic and aluminium, rods and tubes.