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Bernard Rudofsky On his 100th Birthday Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium Symposium: 15 April 2005 - 16 April 2005 Tickets: Free entry! Maria Welzig, architecture journalist and freelance curator, Vienna Maria Welzig: born in 1963, she studied art history in Vienna. Books and exhibitions on Austrian Modernist and contemporary architecture, including Josef Frank. Das architektonische Werk, Vienna 1998. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Stipend 2000. Teaching post at Graz University of Technology in 2003. Research project for the Wissenschaftsfonds on Austrian architecture since the 1960s. Short film schoener wohnen (with Sabine Groschup and Gerhard Steixner), 2004. Theodor-Körner Prize 2001. Andrea Bocco, Politecnico di Torino Graduated in architecture at the Politecnico di Torino (1991); registered architect, own design bureau (1995); Ph.D. in architecture & building design at the Politecnico di Torino (1997); Head of the Photo Archives of the Schools of Architecture of the Politecnico di Torino (1997); Director of the San Salvario Neighbourhood Development Agency (1999); research into building technology at the Dipartimento Casa-Citta of the Politecnico di Torino (2001). He currently teaches urban rehabilitation and participatory design (postgraduate school: technology, architecture and city in developing countries) and the technological culture of architecture (1st School of Architecture). Berta Rudofsky Berta Rudofsky (née Doctor) was born in 1910 in Vienna and grew up in the 13th District. Influenced by her parents – her father was an electro-engineer and excellent pianist, and her mother was a soprano – she studied musicology, but was forced to become self-sufficient at a young age by the early death of her father and her mother's poor health. Berta met Bernard Rudofsky while on a trip to Italy in 1934. In November 1936 they married in New York City Hall. Today Berta Rudofsky lives alternately in Vienna, New York and Frigiliana (Spain). Monika Platzer Studies of art history at Vienna University, has worked for the Architekturzentrum Wien as curator and Head of Archive and Collection since 1998. Research focus: 20th century Austrian architectural and cultural history; collaborator in numerous research and exhibition projects. Assigned by Austrian Ministry for Education, Science and Culture, by the Montreal Canadian Centre for Architecture the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles to develop and curate (together with Eve Blau and Dieter Bogner) an exhibition entitled Mythos Großstadt, Architektur und Stadtbaukunst in Zentraleuropa 1890–1937 [engl. Shaping the Great City, Modern Architecture in Central Europe 1890 – 1937]. Upcoming projects: exhibition Viennese Kinetism, An Avantgarde Movement of the 1920s, to be shown 2006 at the Wien Museum, Vienna. Research work for exhibition project ”The Reconquest of Europe: Re-Encountering the Public Space in Cities 1900–2000” on behalf of the Centre de Cultura Contemporenia de Barcelona. Margot Fuertsch Studies of architecture at the Vienna University of Technology; graduate in civil engineering. Several student internships at the office of Prof. Roland Rainer, Vienna. Foreign scholarship at the University of Michigan, College of Architecture + Urban Planning, Ann Arbor; student assistant at the Department of Building Construction II, Prof. Helmut Richter, Vienna University of Technology. Since 1993 architectural office partnership with Siegfried Loos; 2002 establishment of collaborative architectural label polar÷, based in Vienna and Bad Gleichenberg. Lecturer at the Joanneum University of Applied Sciences. Karl Wutt, architect and ethnologist, Vienna Born in 1943. Wrote his dissertation on the architecture of a number of Hindu Kush valleys in Afghanistan und Pakistan. Since 1984 at the Institut für Völkerkunde (institute of ethnology) at Vienna University, and 1990–2004 at the art and architecture institute of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Wutt conducted field research into the architecture of tribal ethnicity and in the field of urban anthropology. He has a particular penchant for photography and drawing. Between 1973 and 1997 he amassed a collection of drawings by Kalasha Kafirs – to which over 200 people contributed, members of a pre-Islamic culture in Pakistan – the last Kafirs of the Hindu Kush. He has also compiled a private archive of photographs parallel to his work. Felicity Scott, University of California, Irvine Assistant professor of art history and visual studies at the University of California, Irvine and a founding editor of the journal Grey Room, published quarterly by MIT Press. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2001, and also holds a MAUD from Harvard University, and B.Arch. from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Her writing on modern and contemporary architecture has appeared in anthologies, including Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors, and Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture as well as in periodicals such as October, Artforum, Assemblage, Lotus International, Perspecta, and the Harvard Design Magazine. She is currently completing two book manuscripts: the first, entitled Architecture or Techno-Utopia, addresses experimental and radical practices from the postwar period which attempted to articulate ongoing ethico-political dimensions for architectural practice; the second, arising out of her doctoral dissertation, examines the work of Bernard Rudofsky, reading his contributions to the end-games of modernism as critical responses to the historical transformations brought about by the global expansion of capitalism and advances in communication technologies. Wim de Wit, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles Wim de Wit studied at the Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, The Netherlands,Ph.D. in 1974: The Amsterdam School. Dutch Expressionist Architecture. 1915 – 1930. MIT, 1983. At present: Head, Special Collections & Visual Resources and Curator of Architectural Drawings, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Exhibitions in preparation: Julius Shulman, Getty Research Institute, 2005–2006; The Getty Villa Reimagined, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2005–2006 Bernard Rudofsky, Getty Research Institute, 2007–2008 |
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Bernard Rudofsky Biography Bernard Rudofsky Further Biographies Detailed Programme Information: Monika Platzer Tel.: +43 (1) 522 31 15 - 21 Fax: +43 (1) 522 31 17 Email: platzer@azw.at |
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