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Vienna and Surroundings

Headline: Vienna and surroundings
Authors / artists: Raimund Abraham, Hans Hollein, Max Peintner, Gianni Pettena, Walter Pichler, Ettore Sottsass
Texts: Gianni Pettena, AA.VV.
Translations: Huw Evans, Stefania Coppi
Year: 2013
ISBN: 978-88-6057-178-6
Size: cm 16,5×23,5
Binding: paperback binding
Pages: 80
Illustrations: 44
Price: € 18,00

Volume realized on the exhibition VIENNA AREA | ABRAHAM, HOLLEIN, Peintner PETTENA, PICHLER, SOTTSASS, by Gianni Pettena, held at the Gallery in Milan in Via Giovanni Bonelli Lambertenghi by Porro 30 November 2012 to the 2 February 2013.

“Nell'effervescente European context, London, Vienna, Milan, Florence are the places that influence and see who operate also has to do with the architecture and transcribed in this, as well as with classical instruments with atypical ways, each element of the discussion emerges elsewhere. The review of the conceptual and linguistic field brings memories but also thoughts and languages ​​being rich processing. These were the years in which irony and provocation dress every discipline: la musica, behavior, theorizing, viewing and physicization ... From Architecture without architects di Bernard Rudowsky alla Spaceship Earth di R. Buckminster Fuller comes to the intimate and strategic considerations Pichler, the theories of global Hollein, by disturbing allegations of Abraham to the ironies of dreamy Sottsass, the discovery of architecture in nature Pettena.
Per Abraham, Peintner, Pettena, Pichler, Sottsass, being born all in the first half of the twentieth century and within a radius of a few kilometers from each other, Hollein and having worked with Pichler and thus be too contaminated by the same virus, unites them in the 'feel' under the skin the work of others. Unites them, inside a path 'radical', revisiting a conceptual and linguistic context, which the design and architecture, that in their hands is extended and amended so strong as to influence even today in art and architecture. […]”
Taken from the text of Gianni Pettena

Weight 0.6 kg
Dimensions 165 × 235 cm