Rock Over Barock

Jung & Schön: 7 + 2

 

Aedes Cooperation Partners

 

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Rock Over Barock

The desire to celebrate space: Based on 7+2 examples, the exhibition will convey what it might be that comprises a characteristic, shared, Austrian architecture. Nine architects show that for all of their diversity it is nonetheless possible to discover a distinct quality in Austrian architecture: the architecture of the spatial sequence. We can now begin the attempt to describe—through their cultural roots—the architects who are decisive in the international architectural discussion at the moment. We can designate the Dutch and the Swiss as Calvinists; a Rietveld in Vienna is just as unthinkable as a Kiesler in Rotterdam. In the search for the uniqueness of Austrian architecture, we constantly stumble upon the missing theoretical foundation that allows the architects’ qualities—which undoubtedly exist—to be interpreted and stylized in such a way that a sharply defined image emerges, one that is capable of distinguishing Austrian architects throughout the world: namely, their desire to redefine built space. In other countries, young architects learn to ride the slipstream of their lands’ greatest names, in Austria, however, we practice patricide. Yet this patricide is not an act of liberation, but simply an unruly defiance of tradition one which recycles Austria’s anti-intellectual attitude. This prevents a discursive confrontation with those innovative architectural qualities that risk being novel. What madness to build immensely heavy domes and have them vanish under heavenly visions! By starting with this desire for spatial design evident in Baroque structures, a particular skill of Austrian architects becomes clear: designing complex space rather than the simplified box. Wolf Prix

 The exhibition presents following projects: ARTEC Architekten Raum Zita Kern Raasdorf, N.Ö., Austria, 1996-98 Urs Bette Uralla Courth Adelaide, Australia, 1993 DELUGAN MEISSL ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS House Ray1 Vienna, Austria, 2003 the next ENTERprise architects Lakeside bath Caldaro/Kaltern Caldaro/Kaltern, Italy, 2002- Klaus Stattmann Fluc_2 Vienna, Austria, 2003-2006 stiefel kramer Kunsthaus Graz – „Promenade médiale“ Graz, Austria, 2000 Wolfgang Tschapeller BVA123 Vienna, Austria, 1998-2004 Sophie Grell Raum oder Vorfeld Vienna, Austria, 2004/05 Tercer Piso arquitectos Techo en Mexico Oaxaca, Mexico, 2002-04

Speakers at the opening:
Kristin Feireiss
Berlin and
Wolf Prix Vienna
An Aedes catalogue will be published (€ 19.-).