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Achleitner’s Austria The Archive of Twentieth Century Architecture Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall Exhibition: 18 May 2000 - 07 August 2000 Opening: Wednesday 17 May 2000, 7pm Press Preview: Wednesday, May 17, 2000, 11:00 A.M. Opening: Wednesday, May 17, 2000, 7:00 P.M. Exhibition: May 18, 2000 - August 07, 2000 Opening hours: Daily 10:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. wednesdays 08 - May 24, 2000, 7:00 P.M. Press / Information: Michael Hammerschmid P ++43 1 522 31 15 - 23 F ++43 1 522 31 17 E-Mail: press@azw.at Collected on his own initiative over the course of four decades, the "Achleitner-Archive” is the ultimate recollection of Austrian Architecture. The archive was purchased in 1999 by the City of Vienna and was entrusted to the Architecture Center Vienna for archiving and publication. It is presently being cataloged and digitalized; approximately 30,000 objects will be available to the public in the archive’s final, digital format. The exhibition shows physical excerpts from this singular collection as well as the first glimpse into the projected database. The focus of this presentation will be a selection of 30 buildings from the Viennese district of Neubau as well as the Vorarlberger City of Dornbirn which together provide an exemplary clarification of the structure and the content of the archive. These buildings can also be accessed via computer – as model representations of the methodology and the layout of the database. Furthermore, four detailed Building-Biographies demonstrate the archive’s basic approach to the documentation and analysis of Architecture: More than any other art, Architecture is imbedded in the methods of its time; buildings can hardly be reduced to an "authentic and primordial state”. Buildings are in fact vital "subjects” with particular, complex and often conflict-laden histories. This approach will be embodied in the presentation of the College of Applied Science in Dornbirn, the former " Department Store Stafa” in Vienna-Neubau and the Coutry Houses Eichmann and Gamerith in Seewalchen. Many previously unpublished documents and newly produced videos will be used to present these works. The context of 1960 serves as point of departure; the prevailing public and journalistic attitudes of that t regarding Vienna’s architectural heritage are represented by means of statistics, newspaper clippings and written commentary. The antipathetical climate of that era, in which monuments such as Otto Wagner’s Stadtbahn viaduct could be demolished without second thought, makes Friedrich Achleitner’s motivation for compiling a comprehensive inventory of the local architectural patrimony clearly understandable. wednesday 08 24. May 2000, 7:P.M. From Dehio to City Guide On the occasion of this exhibition, on Wednesday the following questions will be posed: what relevance does an Architectural Topographer have today? And how has his position in the discourse changed over the years? Where, between an Inventory of Monuments and a City Guide, does this Archive stand? Moderation: Otto Kapfinger Guests: Renate Banik-Schweitzer, Vienna City and State Archiv Wolfgang Kos, Cultural historian and Journalist Andreas Lehne, Co-Autor Dehio Wien |
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