Alfred Mansfeld

Alfred (Al) Mansfeld (; 2 March 1912 – 15 March 2004) was an Israeli architect.

Biography Mansfeld was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1912. While still a child, he moved with his family to Berlin, Germany. He began studying architecture in 1931 at the Technische Hochschule Berlin (now Technische Universität Berlin) but, with the rise of the Nazis to power, he moved in 1933 to Paris, France, where he completed his studies in 1935 at the École Spéciale d'Architecture, as a student of the architect, Auguste Perret, a pioneer of concrete construction. Their firm was held in high regard, and by the time the partnership ended, the office was among the largest in Israel. Together, Weinraub and Mansfield won eleven national architecture competitions. Mansfield's winning entry into the design competition for the Israel Museum, submitted without Weinraub, was the catalyst for terminating their partnership. and of which his son, Michael Mansfeld, is a partner.

He died on 15 March 2004, at his home, designed by him, in central Carmel, Haifa, Israel. The Stella Maris neighbourhood in Haifa; with whom he had designed the interior of Israel Museum. In 1969, he received the "Gold Plaquette" for Foreign Architects from the Association of German Architects (BDA - Bund Deutscher Architekten). In 1971, he was elected member of the Berlin Academy. In 1976, he was awarded the Rechter Prize, for planning the Stella Maris neighbourhood in Haifa. In 1983, he was elected an honorary member of the Paris Academy. In 2001, he received an honorable mention from the Architects Association.