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Guided Tour "Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky" April

Meeting Point: Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall
Time: Wednesday 18 April 2007, 6pm
Tickets: EUR 7.00 / EUR 5.50 reduced (incl. guided tour)

Guided Tour through the exhibition "Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky"

Bernard Rudofsky made a large number of exhibitions during his widely travelled and cosmopolitan life, however there has never been an exhibition about him and his work. This exhibition, the first on Bernard Rudofsky in the world, has not been conceived as a classical retrospective. The aim is to make the cosmopolitan Rudofsky's complex architectural concept and concept of how to live accessible to a broad public, and to address his relevance for today.

Bernard Rudofsky was neither an architect nor a theorist in the usual sense. At the start of his career he completed a number of houses in Italy and Brazil, where he employed the formal language of the Modernists even though his writings appear to indicate he rejected their teachings. From the 1940s onwards, Rudofsky was primarily engaged as a critic and culture theorist who did not just write about architecture and design, but also on topics such as clothing, shoes, eating and bathing. The common element behind all of these activities, though, was the human body, and his lamentation of the loss of sensual awareness.

The catalogue accompanying the exhibition 'Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky', has contributions by Andrea Bocco-Guarneri, Monika Platzer, Felicity Scott, Wim de Wit and Maria Welzig. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. 296 pages, approx. 216 illustrations, available in German and English.

Curators:
Monika Platzer, Architekturzentrum Wien
Wim de Wit, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles


© Pez Hejduk 

Guided Tour "Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky" April

Gallery:
The Exhibition


E-Shop Products:
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky / german edition

Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky / english edition


Information:
Lisa Kusebauch-Kaiser
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