In Conversation | Rafi Segal and Tony Vidler: Architecture is Creation of Pattern

The In Conversation Series is intended as a format for faculty and guests to discuss issues that are affecting the school, the discipline, or the theories, cultures and practices of architecture. In this installment of the series, Rafi Segal and Anthony Vidler will discuss Mr. Segal’s new book. Ever an intellectual and independent thinker, the Czech modernist architect Alfred Neumann (1900–1968) believed in the artistic role of architecture as the poetic and utilitarian shaping of a “humanized” space. Yet while he achieved professional recognition internationally, Neumann was never fully accepted by the architectural establishment in his adopted country, Israel, and remained a perpetual outsider. Space Packed: The Architecture of Alfred Neumann by Rafi Segal is the first book to examine his unique work.