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On 15 March, 2024, an exhibition on the Austrian architect Hermann Czech’s work opened in Vienna at the exhibition space Franz-Josefs-Kai 3 (FJK3). It is the first exhibition spanning his whole career up until to the present moment. Curators are Claudia Cavallar, Gabrielle Kaiser, Eva Kuss and Fiona Liewehr in cooperation with Czech himself. 500 visitors were expected for the opening, but more than 1000 people showed up. At the dinner later the same evening at restaurant Salzamt, designed by Czech in 1983, he was greeted with standing ovations. Caption. Photo by authour. Born in Vienna in 1936 ..read more

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A selection of Hollein material in the Drawing Matter Collections. Photo: Jesper Authen The Austrian architect Hans Hollein (1934–2014) studied under Clemens Holzmeister at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and then at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the College of Environmental Design at the University of California Berkeley. With the sculptor and designer Walter Pichler he introduced a body of experimental and utopian ideas in an exhibition at the Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna in 1963. He opened a practice in 1964, and worked both theoretically and practically in built work ..read more

Constant (1920–2005), Frontispiece for New Babylon, 1963. Pen and ink, 155 × 200 mm. DMC 1472.11. The ladder, a seemingly unexceptional instrument within the array of futuristic and utopian architectural schemes, sits front and centre; the protagonist of not only this drawing but of Constant’s almost two-decade-long project, spanning 1956–1974, entitled ‘New Babylon’. Propped somewhat haphazardly against a series of horizontally-connected and vertically-angled planes, it exudes an everydayness, while offering the observer a relatable and scaled object amongst the otherwise abstracted series of ..read more

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O.M. Ungers, A Green Archipelago, 19xx. Material, Dimensions. UAA Ungers Archiv für Architkturwissenschaft, Köln. These drawings emerged within the framework of a summer school in Berlin, organized by Oswald Mathias Ungers for his Cornell students in 1977. The project was developed by the German architect and his assistants, and it offers a vision for a city undergoing a process of population decline. Ungers, who would later publish the book entitled ‘City Metaphors’ in 1982, attempts to depict an image—a green archipelago, where architectural ensembles would be the islands and the space be ..read more