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The Achleitner Archives The Achleitner Archives are the most important archives of 20th century Austrian architecture. They were purchased in 1999 by the City of Vienna and handed over to the Architekturzentrum Wien to prepare them for public access and for further research work. Resulting from the specific approach and work method used by Friedrich Achleitner, the Achleitner Archives are by and large built up and ordered topographically. The publication of the architecture guide at the end of the extensive research work represents the concentrated results of this work. The material collected for this purpose is to be found in the archives, generally speaking not original sources but copies - of both primary and secondary sources. The ordering and thus the method of searching for material within the card index is related to specific buildings which is to say Austria is subdivided into its federal states, cities and towns, functions, addresses (streets etc.). The ordered collections of material start for the most part in the mid 1960s and are continued to the present. In addition there is an alphabetically ordered architects card index with biographical details in varying degrees of detail, according to the current state of research The Achleitner Archives: 22.340 Indexcards of objects 2.690 Indexcards of architects 66.500 photographic negatives 37.800 slides 13.800 photographic enlargements 570 plans 250 route plans 1.030 books, broshures, catalogues, magazines material boxes (topographically ordered) Biography Friedrich Achleitner: born on 23.05.1930 in Schalchen, Upper Austria 1950–1953 Studied architecture, took his diploma in the master class of Clemens Holzmeister at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna 1953–1955 Master class of Emil Pirchan, stage design 1953–1958 Freelance architect, worked together Johann Georg Gsteu 1958 Achleitner ceases to work as an architect and becomes a freelance writer. As a member of the legendary "wiener gruppe" (Konrad Bayer, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener) he writes poems in dialect and concrete poetry and takes part in productions of the "literarisches cabaret". 1961 Architecture critic of the "Abendzeitung" 1962–1972 Architecture critic of the daily newspaper "Die Presse" 1963–1983 Lecturer in "History of Building Construction" at the Academy of Fine Arts 1983–1998 Head of the faculty of "History and Theory of Architecture" at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna 1998 Professor emeritus 1965–2010 Friedrich Achleitner writes his "Guide to Austrian Architecture of the 20th Century". To the present lives and works as a freelance writer in Vienna Awards: 1957: Theodor Körner Prize 1983: Camillo Sitte Prize 1984: Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism 1990: Prize of the City of Vienna for Journalism 1995: Culture Prize of the State of Upper Austria for Architecture 1995: Gold Medal of the Federal Capital Vienna 1999: Prize of the Architecture Museum Basel 2002: Gold Medal of Honour for Services to the State of Vienna 2004: Mauriz Balzarek Prize 2006: Montfort Order in Gold 2007: Prize of the City of Vienna for Literature 2008: Schellin Prize for Architecture Theory 2008: Heinrich Gleißner Prize 2011: Paul Watzlawick Ring of Honour 2014: Awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st Class Works: Architecture guides: Österreichische Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert/Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century. A guide in three [from vol.III/1: four] volumes, published by Museum moderner Kunst Wien or Architekturzentrum Wien (vol. III/3), Residenz Verlag Salzburg Volume I: Upper Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg; 1980; ISBN 3-7017-0248-9 Volume II. Carinthia, Styria, Burgenland; 1983; ISBN 3-7017-0322-1 Volume III/1: Vienna, Districts 1–12; 1990; ISBN 3-7017-0635-2 Volume III/2: Vienna, Districts 13–18; 1995; ISBN 3-7017-0704-9 Volume III/3: Vienna, Districts 19–23; 201 0; ISBN 978-3-7017-3209-8 Architectural-literary works (selection): 1959 hosn rosn baa, poems in dialect with H.C.Artmann and Gerhard Rühm, Vienna 1960 schwer schwarz, concrete poetry, eugen gomringer press, Frauenfeld 1967 die wiener gruppe, ed. Gerhard Rühm, with H.C.Artmann, Konrad Bayer, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener, Hamburg 1968 Lois Welzenbacher, monograph, with Ottokar Uhl, Salzburg 1970 prosa, konstellationen, montagen, dialektgedichte, studien, Hamburg 1973 quadratroman, Darmstadt 1975 WOHNEN ETCETERA, Munich 1977 Die WARE Landschaft, (ed.), Salzburg 1980 friedrich achleitner + gerhard rühm. super rekord 50+50, Linz 1986 Nieder mit Fischer von Erlach, (architecture criticism), Salzburg 1987 Aufforderung zum Vertrauen, (architecture criticism), Salzburg 1991 KAAS (poems in dialect), Salzburg 1994 Die rückwärtsgewandte Utopie: Motor des Fortschritts in der Wiener Architektur, Vienna 1995 Die Plotteggs kommen, Vienna 1996 Wiener Architektur, Vienna 1997 Region, ein Konstrukt? Regionalismus, eine Pleite?, Basel 2003 einschlafgeschichten, Vienna 2004 wiener Iinien, (prose collection )Vienna 2006 und oder oder und, Vienna 2007 quadratroman 2009 der springende punkt 2011 iwahaubbd. Poems in dialect 2013 Den Toten eine Blume. 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Collection The Achleitner Archives Collection of individual projects Estates Margherita Spiluttini Photo Archive Team Dates: Friedrich Achleitner's View of the Architecture of Austria after 1945 Information: Architekturzentrum Wien, Collection Email: sammlung@azw.at |
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