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Annual Press Conference 2012 Az W ANNUAL PRESS CONFERENCE The Az W annual programme, a summary of 2011, the exhibitions on the agenda for 2012 and further developments were presented at the press conference at 11am on Wednesday 1 February 2012 by Dietmar Steiner / director of the Az W, Karin Lux / Az W business manager and Dr. Hannes Pflaum / president of the board. The exhibition HANDS-ON URBANISM 1850 – 2012. THE RIGHT TO GREEN runs from 15.03 to 25.06.2012. The curator Elke Krasny shows the history of the generation of urban space since 1850 to the present day from the perspective of land appropriation in urban space. Examples from different countries clearly demonstrate the background to and impact of hands-on urbanism. What can be learned from this grassroots urban history, and how are the planning authorities and architects involved in these processes? The summer exhibition EUROPE'S BEST BUILDINGS. MIES VAN DER ROHE AWARD 2011 (19.07 – 08.10.2012) presents the most innovative contemporary architecture projects of the past two years, for the second time at the Az W. Around fifty buildings from throughout Europe are on show using plans and photographs but also, and above all, numerous models. This year the presentation is supplemented by the projects nominated from Austria. While Constructivism features in Western architecture history, the post-Stalinist architecture has remained largely unknown and is restricted to the cliché of endlessly sad prefabricated housing blocks. With the exhibition project SOVIET MODERNISM. UNKNOWN MASTERPIECES, 1955–1991 (08.11.2012 – 25.02.2013) the Az W does away with this cliché, and provides a comprehensive inventory and the context of this second Modernism, a movement that developed in very different ways in the 14 former-republics — not including Russia. Alongside its programme of international touring exhibitions, in 2012 the Architekturzentrum Wien is again providing visitors with 365 days of varied agenda that includes, for example, the permanent exhibition 'a_show'. Austrian Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries', a wide range of events and educational events and the accompanying range of cultural services, such as the specialist reading library, the online building database and the online Encyclopaedia of Architects. |
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