Rafi Segal: Architecture: Concepts and Forms
Archiculture 2015
The Brno Architecture Gallery will present another work by the influential architect and urban planner of American-Israeli origin Rafi Segal as part of the ARCHIKULTURA 2015 festival.
The exhibition titled RAFI SEGAL: ARCHITECTURE: CONCEPTS AND FORMS maps the body of work of this significant architect and the evolution of his design approach from previous years, through drawings, photographs, models, and studies that the gallery will showcase.
“Rafael Segal made a name for himself as a collaborator with the famous architect Zvi Hecker, with whom he co-designed the Palmach Museum building in Tel Aviv. However, perhaps the loudest resonance of Rafael Segal's name in global media was in connection with the project for the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem,” states the director of the Architecture Gallery, Gabriel Kurtis.
Rafi Segal's design won an international architectural competition, but after loudly debated political controversies, Segal's proposal was excluded from the competition. “This is definitively a loss for Jerusalem, a loss for civilized society and a tragic reminder of how fragile the work of an architect is,” assessed the connotations surrounding the competition, architect Zvi Hecker.
Rafi Segal – architect, urban planner, and scientist Rafi Segal studied architecture at the Technion in Israel, where he received a Master of Science engineering degree. He completed his doctoral studies at Princeton University. From 1992 to 2000, he worked with Zvi Hecker on the project for the Palmach Museum of History in Tel Aviv. Later, he founded his own office, which, after a recent reorganization, won an international competition for the National Library of Israel project in Jerusalem. The office, currently based in the USA, focuses on projects and research in architecture and urban solutions. His writings and exhibitions, including Cities of Dispersal (2008), Territories: Islands, Camps, and Other States of Utopia (2003), and A Civilian Occupation (2003), have had a profound impact on socio-political discussions about contemporary urbanism. Segal has taught architecture and urbanism at MIT, at the graduate design school at Harvard, at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York, and currently teaches at the GSAPP graduate school of architecture, planning, and preservation at Columbia University.
For the first time this year, the Brno Architecture Gallery is participating in the ARCHIKULTURA 2015 festival. However, this is already the seventh edition of the festival that has grown from the activities of the Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava and the Architecture Cabinet in Ostrava into a nationwide event dedicated to the presentation of contemporary architecture.
The exhibition will be opened in the personal presence of architect Rafi Segal on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, at 6:00 PM at the Brno Architecture Gallery.
Part of the exhibition program is a lecture by Rafi Segal, which will take place before the opening on April 1, 2015, at 3:00 PM in the aula A310 of the Faculty of Architecture at VUT in Brno.
The exhibition will be open daily from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM until April 24, 2015. The exhibition for Czech viewers was prepared by the Architecture Cabinet in Ostrava and the Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava in cooperation with the Brno Architecture Gallery.
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The exhibition titled RAFI SEGAL: ARCHITECTURE: CONCEPTS AND FORMS maps the body of work of this significant architect and the evolution of his design approach from previous years, through drawings, photographs, models, and studies that the gallery will showcase.
“Rafael Segal made a name for himself as a collaborator with the famous architect Zvi Hecker, with whom he co-designed the Palmach Museum building in Tel Aviv. However, perhaps the loudest resonance of Rafael Segal's name in global media was in connection with the project for the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem,” states the director of the Architecture Gallery, Gabriel Kurtis.
Rafi Segal's design won an international architectural competition, but after loudly debated political controversies, Segal's proposal was excluded from the competition. “This is definitively a loss for Jerusalem, a loss for civilized society and a tragic reminder of how fragile the work of an architect is,” assessed the connotations surrounding the competition, architect Zvi Hecker.
Rafi Segal – architect, urban planner, and scientist Rafi Segal studied architecture at the Technion in Israel, where he received a Master of Science engineering degree. He completed his doctoral studies at Princeton University. From 1992 to 2000, he worked with Zvi Hecker on the project for the Palmach Museum of History in Tel Aviv. Later, he founded his own office, which, after a recent reorganization, won an international competition for the National Library of Israel project in Jerusalem. The office, currently based in the USA, focuses on projects and research in architecture and urban solutions. His writings and exhibitions, including Cities of Dispersal (2008), Territories: Islands, Camps, and Other States of Utopia (2003), and A Civilian Occupation (2003), have had a profound impact on socio-political discussions about contemporary urbanism. Segal has taught architecture and urbanism at MIT, at the graduate design school at Harvard, at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York, and currently teaches at the GSAPP graduate school of architecture, planning, and preservation at Columbia University.
For the first time this year, the Brno Architecture Gallery is participating in the ARCHIKULTURA 2015 festival. However, this is already the seventh edition of the festival that has grown from the activities of the Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava and the Architecture Cabinet in Ostrava into a nationwide event dedicated to the presentation of contemporary architecture.
The exhibition will be opened in the personal presence of architect Rafi Segal on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, at 6:00 PM at the Brno Architecture Gallery.
Part of the exhibition program is a lecture by Rafi Segal, which will take place before the opening on April 1, 2015, at 3:00 PM in the aula A310 of the Faculty of Architecture at VUT in Brno.
The exhibition will be open daily from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM until April 24, 2015. The exhibition for Czech viewers was prepared by the Architecture Cabinet in Ostrava and the Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava in cooperation with the Brno Architecture Gallery.
More information >
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