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The Museum Quarter Vienna ... and other exciting stories INFORMATION FOR THE PRESS Presse preview: Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 11:00 a.m. Opening: Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 6:00 p.m. Exhibition: September 15, 1999 - October 26, 1999 Opening hours: Daily 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Tuesday Architecture 05 -September 21, 1999, 7:00 p.m. 06 -October 05, 1999, 7:00 p.m. Guided tours: Saturday, September 18, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Saturday, October 02, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Saturday, October 16, 1999, 3:00 p.m. The Architekturzentrum Wien will, for the frist time, present the overall project of the Museum Quarter Vienna, which is now under construction, to the public. The inauguration is scheduled for 2001, the decision from the competition entries was made in 1990, and between these two dates lie 10 years of struggle, resignation, objection, renewed debate, and approval. The competition, the planning phase, the political discussions, accompanied and guided by the media, permit the visitor of this exhibition to immerse into a piece of cultural history. The exhibition shall focus not only on the future architecture of the Museumsquartier but also on the relationship between politics, society, and the media. To ensure that the history of the Museumsquartier is not treated in an isolated perspective, the Vienna project will be placed in an international context and compared to other large-scale cultural buildings of the century. These include the Sydney Opera House (Jørn Utzon), the Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki (Steven Holl), the Musée du Louvre, Paris (I.M. Pei), the Groninger Museum, Groningen (Alessandro Mendini, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Michele de Lucchi, and Philippe Starck), and the Culture and Congress Centre, Luzern (Jean Nouvel). The exhibition will highlight with what similar and dissimilar challenges the construction of cultural buildings have to cope with and points out the correlation of media controversies and political responsibilities which in the end lead to the realization of the project. The intricacy of the problem issue to be conveyed is emphasized by the exhibition concept. Various levels of development as well as complex information are presented. The visitor is free to chose from these possibilities: either the perspective of rapid development by striding through numerous varied stories or an in-depth study of individual stories. The exhibited material comprises the initial phase, displaying planning and photographic material, statements written by the individual architects on their projects, videos, slide shows, detailed press folders on the various buildings, Internet access to the homepages of individual institutions and a variety of illustrations reflecting the diversity inherent to the individual stories. TuesdayArchitecture 05 September 21, 1999, 7:00 p.m. Film presentation: "The Edge of the Possible" Documentation on Jørn Utzon and the Sydney Opera House (approx. 1h) afterwards: Film director Daryl Dellora talks to Françoise Fromonot, author of the book "Jørn Utzon - The Sydney Opera House" TuesdayArchitecture 06 October 05, 1999, 7:00 p.m. Theme: The architect Laurids Ortner and guests are talking about politics, society, media - and architecture. 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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