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Bernard Rudofsky On his 100th Birthday Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium Symposium: 15 April 2005 - 16 April 2005 Tickets: Free entry! Bernard Rudofsky (1905 – 1988) was an architect educated in Austria (at Vienna University of Technology) who was drawn to Italy back in the 1930s. This is also where he completed his first architectural work which, in purely formal terms, is ascribed to Classical Modernism. Due to the political upheaval caused by Hitler's march into Austria Rudofsky emigrated to South America (The Argentine, Brazil) before then finally settling in the USA. As well as his building work, which receded increasingly into the background as he grew older, Rudofsky was also a designer, a traveller, a maker of exhibitions, an author and an academic. Rudofsky stands in the tradition of Loos and Frank even if he, entirely against the spirit of the time, did not distance himself from the past and – contrary to the closed Modernist view of the world – has always been preoccupied with cultural history. Bibliography Rudofsky, Bernard: SPARTA/SYBARIS, Ed. Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg-Vienna 1987 Rudofsky, Bernard: NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO EAT, Anchor Books, Doubleday, New York 1980 Rudofsky, Bernard: THE PRODIGIOUS BUILDERS, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., New York–London 1977 Rudofsky, Bernard: THE UNFASHIONABLE HUMAN BODY, Anchor Books, Doubleday, New York 1971 Rudofsky, Bernard: STREETS FOR PEOPLE: a primer for Americans, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York 1969 Rudofsky, Bernard: THE KIMONO MIND, Doubleday, New York 1965. Rudofsky, Bernard: ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTS, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1964 Rudofsky, Bernard: BEHIND THE PICTURE WINDOW, Oxford University Press, New York 1955 Rudofsky, Bernard: ARE CLOTHES MODERN?, Paul Theobald, Chicago 1947 Exhibitions 1944 MoMA, New York: ARE CLOTHES MODERN? 1956 MoMA, New York: TEXTILES USA 1958 US Pavilion for the Brussels Worlds Fair 1961–1965 MoMA, New York: JAPANESE VERNACULAR GRAPHICS; ROADS, STAIRS and GAUDI; ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTS 1980 Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York: NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO EAT 1987 MAK, Vienna: SPARTA/SYBARIS |
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