“Space Packing Architecture: The Life and Work of Alfred Neumann”, the first-ever exhibition on Alfred Neumann, is on display at Cabinet of Architecture in Ostrava.
Accompanied by architectural models and life-size spatial units constructed especially for the show, “Space Packing Architecture: The Life and Work of Alfred Neumann” focuses on Neumann’s major design projects in Israel from the 1960s, undertaken with his collaborators Zvi Hecker and Eldar Sharon, and explores his vision for a new kind of modern architecture.
Educated by the Modernist masters in Brno, Vienna, and Paris throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Neumann garnered international acclaim by the 1960s for his highly original designs that departed from the canonical International Style of modern architecture. Eschewing orthogonal functionalism, Neumann instead conceived of architecture as accreted patterns of spatial units, and deployed polyhedral geometries to arrive at new architectural expressions. His buildings were innovative in appropriating sustainable design principles and poetic in their abstract language of light and shadow.
until June 7, 2015
Space Packing Architecture: The Life and Work of Alfred Neumann
Curators: Rafi Segal, Tadeáš Goryczka, Jaroslav Němec (Cabinet of Architecture) in cooperation with Zvi Hecker
Exhibition design: Rafi Segal
Coordinator: Tadeáš Goryczka (CZ), Yonatan Cohen, Ariel Noyman (US)
Team: Yonatan Cohen, Ariel Noyman, Caroline Murphy, Grigori Enikolopov (models), units: Vojtěch Sedlák, Jiří Stehlík, Josef Navrátil, Pavel Freivald, David Ivan, Martin Sedlák, Lukáš Černohorský, Jana Sedláková
Graphic Design: Ben Fehrman-Lee, Jaroslav Němec
Gallery of Fine Art in Ostrava
Poděbradova 1291/12
Ostrava, Czech Republic
zdroj: http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2015/04/29/space_packing_architecture_the_life_and_work_of_alfred_neumann.html (publikováno 29. 4. 2015)