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Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky A cooperation by the Architekturzentrum Wien with The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles in association with the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall Exhibition: 08 March 2007 - 28 May 2007 Opening Hours: Daily 10:00 am - 7:00 pm Opening: Wednesday 7 March 2007, 7pm Tickets: EUR 5,00 / EUR 3,50 reduced BERNARD RUDOFSKY (1905–1988) 1905 Born April 19 in Zauchtl (Suchdol nad Odrou), Moravia (now the Czech Republic) 1906 Moves to Vienna 1918–22 Attends secondary school on Henriettenplatz, Vienna 1922 Enrolls in the Technische Hochschule, Vienna 1923 Visits the Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar 1925 Travels in Bulgaria and Turkey 1926 Travels in Switzerland, France, and Italy 1927 Travels in Italy 1928 Graduates from the Technische Hochschule with a degree in construction engineering and architecture 1928–30 Works at the office of Otto Rudolf Salvisberg in Berlin 1929 Travels in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece (Santorini) 1930–32 Works at the office of Theiss & Jaksch in Vienna 1931 Receives Ph.D. from the Technische Hochschule; dissertation (under Siegfried Theiss and Franz Krauss) on construction and dating of an early concrete structure on the Cyclades 1932 Moves to Capri; begins collaborating with Luigi Cosenza 1934 Meets his future wife, Berta Doctor, on Ischia 1935 Moves to Procida and begins planning a house there; plans (with Luigi Cosenza) Casa Oro in Naples 1935–36 Makes first trip to the United States; marries Berta Doctor in November 1935 in New York City 1936 Birth of son Peter, who died in 1938 1937–38 Moves to Milan; editor at Domus magazine (issues 122, 123, 124) 1938 After Hitler invades Austria, Rudofsky leaves Italy for South America, living in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and, from December onward, São Paulo 1938–40 Designs furniture and fabrics for Casa & Jardim, São Paulo 1939–40 Completes Houses Hollenstein (Itapetirica), Frontini, and Arnstein (São Paulo) 1941 At the invitation of the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), travels to the United States as one of the Latin American prize-winners (for garden furniture designs) of the Organic Design Competition; moves to New York City 1942–43 Associate editor and art director of the journal Pencil Points 1944 Exhibition Are Clothes Modern? opens at MoMA 1946–49 Editor and manager (from 1947) of the journal Interiors 1946–64 Bernardo Sandals are mass produced (by Aldo Bruzzichelli) 1947 Are Clothes Modern? is published 1948 Granted U.S. citizenship; makes first postwar trip to Europe 1949–50 Designs (with Costantino Nivola) the Nivola House-Garden in Amagansett, New York 1951 Drives to Mexico 1955 Behind the Picture Window is published; makes first trip to Japan 1956 Exhibition Textiles, U.S.A. opens at MoMA; Bemis Visiting Lecturer at MIT 1957–58 Designs (with Peter Harnden) the U.S. pavilion at the Brussels World’s Fair 1958–60 Travels to Japan as a Fulbright Scholar; research professor at Waseda University, Tokyo 1960–65 Consultant to Department of Architecture, MoMA; conceives the following touring exhibitions: Japanese Vernacular Graphics; Roads; Stairs; Antoni Gaudí; Architecture Without Architects (the latter toured for eleven years and was shown in more than eighty venues around the world) 1961and1965 Visiting professor at Yale University. 1962–64 Builds a garden for James Carmel in Grosse Pointe, Michigan 1962–76 Writes for the periodical Horizon 1963, 1964, 1971 Receives Guggenheim Memorial Award 1965 The Kimono Mind, written during a nine-month stay on Hawaii in 1959, is published 1969 Streets for People is published 1969–71 Designs and builds La Casa his home, in Frigiliana, Spain 1971 The Unfashionable Human Body is published 1973–81 Lectures and acts as visiting professor at universities and institutions in the United States and abroad (in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Copenhagen, Tokyo, and other cities) 1977 The Prodigious Builders is published; Rudofsky visits Vienna for the first time since 1932, to receive the Joseph Johann Ritter von Prechtl Medal from his alma mater, the Technische Hochschule 1979–81 Smithsonian Scholar in Residence at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York; awarded Medal of the American Institute of Architects for his writings 1980 Exhibition Now I Lay Me Down to Eat opens at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York; exhibition catalogue is published 1982,1983,1984 Research grant from and Senior Fellowship at the National Endowment for the Arts 1984–86 Travels to India as a member of a development programme to promote handcrafts. The results are shown in the exhibition Golden Eye at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York 1986 Awarded City of Vienna Prize for Architecture 1987 Exhibition Sparta/Sybaris opens at the Austrian Museum of Applied Art, Vienna; Sparta/Sybaris exhibition catalogue is published 1988 Dies March 12 in New York City BERTA RUDOFSKY (1910–2006) Berta Doctor was born on May 9, 1910, in Vienna, where she grew up in the 13th District. Her father was an electrical engineer at Siemens-Schucker and an excellent pianist; her mother, Therese, was a soprano. Influenced by her parents, after matriculating from the local secondary school on Wenzgasse she went on to study musicology at Vienna University. Due to her father’s early death and her mother’s poor health, she was forced to take care of herself at a young age. After her mother died, in the early 1930s, Berta led a life that was unusually independent and free for a young woman of that time. In 1934, Berta met Bernard Rudofsky on Ischia during a trip to Italy, and in 1935 they moved into an apartment together on the island of Procida. They married in November of the same year at New York City Hall, with the ceramicist Vally Wieselthier as their witness. The couple’s only child, Peter, was born in 1936 and died at Como two years later. Berta Rudofsky was not just a wife and eyewitness; in her capacity as a co-worker, traveling companion, manager, driver, translator, sandal-producer, teacher, editor, model, muse, and, after Bernard’s death, administrator of his estate, she participated anonymously in the work of her husband in a wide variety of ways. After Bernard died, in 1988, Berta Rudofsky lived alternately in Vienna, New York, and Frigiliana (Spain). Berta Rudofsky died on June 22, 2006, in Vienna. |
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Current Preview Permanent Exhibition Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky Biography Press Release: Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky Gallery: The Exhibition Opening event E-Shop Products: Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky / english edition Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky / german edition Links: Bernardo Sandals Information: Monika Platzer Tel.: +43 (1) 522 31 15 - 21 Fax: +43 (1) 522 31 17 Email: platzer@azw.at |
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