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Amt Macht Stadt Erich Leischner and the Vienna Stadtbauamt INFORMATION FOR THE PRESS Press Preview: Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 11:00 a.m. Opening: Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 7:00 p.m. Exhibition: June 16, 1999 to August 02, 1999 Opening hours: Daily from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Tuesday Architecture 03 - June 29, 1999, 7:00 p.m. 04 - July 13, 1999, 7:00 p.m. Guided tours: Saturday, June 19, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Saturday, July 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Saturday, July 24, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Catalogue: An exhibition catalogue will be available to guide through the exhibition (ATS 380.- / EUR 27.61). As one of the most creative and versatile of all civil servant architects, Erich Franz Leischner has substantially influenced and shaped public architecture in the municipality of Vienna with a host of high-quality, aesthetic buildings. His work, but also that of other architects employed in this municipal office are at the centre of this exhibition. Alongside the dominating Wagner School and across political rifts, the excellent buildings authored by the Stadtbauamt have contributed amply to defining the character and identity of Vienna`s cityscape, without ever being taken note of publicly. With a focus on the interim war period, this exhibition aims to document the character of this distinct architectural approach from the typological and historical points of view. A chronological comparison of Leischner`s tectonic work, other architecture fathered by the Vienna Stadtbauamt, and Leischner`s documentation in drawings of Viennese society and history throw light onto the links between and the background of the vast built repertoire of the Vienna Stadtbauamt. This years main theme: (A)way with Modernism? With four large retrospectives - Rudolf Schwarz, Hans Steineder, Erich Leischner, and Oswald Haerdtl - Architekturzentrum Wien is, for the first time, highlighting overlappings, continuities, and fractures within Austrian architectural history of the 20th century. The personal exhibitions will be accompanied by a series of events on scientific reflection - Tuesday Architecture. Tuesday Architecture 03 Theme: Continuities June 29,1999, 7:00 p.m. Across political rifts the centrally employed tenured civil servants functioned as relay station between political ideas and their tectonic realization, their role as "employers" of "free-lance" architects, aside from their own planning, meriting particular mention. Questions and theories: Klaus Steiner Experts: Klaus Steiner, Irene Nierhaus, Roland Rainer, Siegfried Mattl Tuesday Architecture 04 Theme: Identity July 13, 1999, 7:00 p.m. The Stadtbauamt was an institution behind which individual architects would generally disappear, the individual’s design would submit to the common whole, to a formal consensus, which has greatly determined Vienna’s characteristic profile and tectonic identity. Questions and theories: Wolfgang Kos Experts: Friedrich Achleitner, Boris Podrecca, Dieter Pal, Walter Chramosta Press / Information: Karin Wiederer T ++43 1 522 31 15 - 23 F ++43 1 522 31 17 E-Mail: press@azw.at |
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