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Walter Segal: Self-Built Architect

John McKean & Alice Grahame, authors of a new book about Walter Segal (1907-85), discuss the life & work of this influential architect. Architect, academic and critic John McKean and writer Alice Grahame, co-authors of a new book about German-born architect Walter Segal (1907-1985), discuss his background, influences, thoughts, writings, his unique approach to architectural practice, his built work and his enduring impact on architecture and attitudes to housing across the world. Segal’s father Arthur was an eminent modernist painter and a founder of the Dada movement, and Walter grew up surrounded by leaders of the European avant-garde. Qualifying as architect in Germany just as the Nazi party came to power, Walter Segal moved to Switzerland, Mallorca, Egypt and finally to London in 1936. Segal’s central concern was popular housing, and this event will explore how he managed to spread his ideas through writing and teaching, and how his architecture developed towards the flexible, planet-friendly timber-frame form known world-wide today as ‘the Segal system’, which can be used by people to build their own houses. This culminated at the time of Segal’s death in two areas of self-built public authority social housing in London - which, nearly half a century later, remain unique and highly desirable neighbourhoods. John McKean is an architect, academic and critic. He has taught at the Architectural Association, Middlesex University, Colombo Sri Lanka and for 11 years was Professor of Architecture at the University of Brighton. He has written several books, including on Giancarlo De Carlo, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Alexander Greek Thomson. Alice Grahame has worked as a journalist at the BBC and written for The Guardian on various subjects, including Walter Segal. She is author of the book Walter’s Way and Segal Close: The Architect Walter Segal and London’s Self-Build Community, with photographer Taran Wilkhu.