Eran Neuman

Eran Neuman (; born 1968 in Petah Tikva) is an Israeli architect and architectural historian. Currently, he is the dean of the Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University. Between 2010 and 2018, Neuman headed the Azrieli School of Architecture at TAU. He is the founder of the Azrieli Architectural Archive at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and was a co-founder of the international research collaborative Open Source Architecture.

Biography Neuman holds degrees in architecture from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California in Los Angeles. He is recognized for his scholarship in postwar architecture, in particular the exploration of the impact of new technologies on architectural design, practice, and the experience of the built environment, and also on architecture that commemorates the Holocaust. His has contributed in the expansion of topics such as performativity of architecture as well as the relevance of functionalism. Together with Yasha Grobman, he maintained that the "logic of form as an outcome of function was mechanistic" and that reliance in the utility of form will not necessarily address the complexity of form "as a cultural, social, and political product". Neuman is also the founder of the Azrieli Architectural Archive at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His research initiatives focused on architectural culture in the 20th century.

In 2002, Neuman co-founded the international research collaborative Open Source Architecture (OSA) with Aaron Sprecher and Chandler Ahrens. This international laboratory, which maintains offices in Montreal, Los Angeles, and Tel Aviv, develops a methodology that combines theoretical research with architectural design.

Publications

Neuman, Eran and Grobman, Yasha. Performalism: Form and Performance in Digital Architecture. London: Routledge, 2012. Neuman, Eran. The Labyrinth: Ram Karmi and the Extension of Tel Aviv Central Station. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 2013. Neuman, Eran. Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust. London: Routledge, 2014. Neuman, Eran. David Yannay: Architecture and Genetics. Tel Aviv Museum of Art press, 2014. Neuman, Eran. Arieh Sharon: the Nation's Architect. Tel Aviv Museum of Art press, 2018.

Curation In 2018, Neuman curated "Arieh Sharon: the Nation's Architect" In 2014, Neuman curated "David Yannay: Architecture and Genetics" In 2008, he co-curated "Performalism: Form and Performance in Digital Architecture," both presented at the Tel Aviv Museum In 2006, he co-curated “The Genome Project,” presented at the MAK Center in Los Angeles

Honors and awards Neuman has received numerous honors and fellowships including: Israel Science Foundation The Getty Research Institute, Santa Monica Stiftung Zukunft, Berlin The Technion, Haifa Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Tel Aviv University University of California, Los Angeles Bezalel Academy of Art and Design The Keren Sharet America-Israel Culture Foundation; the German-Israel Foundation Fellowship The Zuk Fellowship of the American Society of Architectural Historians The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Washington, D.C.