Hollein Calling

Younger architecture firms in dialogue with the work of Austrian Pritzker Prize laureate Hans Hollein (19342014): Almannai Fischer, Baukuh, Bovenbouw, Claudia Cavallar, Asli Çiçek, Conen Sigl, Doorzon, Expanded Design, Martin Feiersinger, David Kohn, Kuehn Malvezzi, Lütjens Padmanabhan, Manthey Kula, Monadnock, and OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen

Hans Hollein (19342014), Austria's only Pritzker Prize laureate (1985) and a self-proclaimed avant-gardist of the 1960s, was a meticulous curator of his own work throughout his life. At the same time, the reception of this work was often overshadowed by Hollein's immense personality. Hollein Calling: Architectural Dialogues explores the Hollein phenomenon from today's perspective. In dialogue with the positions of a younger generation, this book revaluates and brings back into the current discourse Hollein's thinking and designs.

The first part offers interviews with 15 European firms in which they talk about their relationship to Hollein and his oeuvre, ranging from profound knowledge or selective admiration of specific aspects to skepticism and criticism. Topics such as cultural identity, visual worlds, design tools, and architecture as an independent cultural production run as a thread through these conversations. The second part features a selection of Hollein's buildings through sketches, models, photographs, prototypes, and documents from the Archive Hans Hollein, Az W and MAK, Vienna many of which are published here for the first timeas well as new contextualizing texts. The two sections are connected by a grid of key terms formed of pertinent texts and images.

• Reevaluates the thinking and designs of distunguished Austrian architect Hans Hollein from today's perspective
• 15 European architecture firms of the younger generation enter into dialogue with Hollein's oeuvre
• Features a selection of Hollein's key designs through previously unpublished sketches, models, photos, prototypes, and documents from the Hans Hollein archive
• Offers an outside look at Hollein's lasting significance and the European architectural discourse of the last 15 years by American architect and curator Mark Lee

• Exhibition: Hollein Calling: Architectural Dialogues at Architekturzentrum Wien Az W (September 21, 2023 to February 12, 2024)

  Autorentext

  Lorenzo De Chiffre ist Architekt und Senior Scientist an der TU Wien sowie Autor zahlreicher Texte über Architektur in Büchern und internationalen Zeitschriften.

Theresa Krenn und Benni Eder führen in Wien das Architekturbüro studio ederkrenn. Neben Praxis, Forschen und Schreiben über Architektur lehren sie beide an der TU Wien.

Mark Lee ist Partner im Architekturbüro Johnston Marklee in Los Angeles und war Kurator der Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017.

Monika Platzer ist Kunsthistorikerin und als Kuratorin und Sammlungsleiterin des Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) tätig.

Das Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) ist das österreichische Architekturmuseum und hat sich international als herausragender Ort der Architekturvermittlung etabliert. Das Az W zeigt, diskutiert, sammelt und erforscht, wie Architektur und Stadtentwicklung das tägliche Leben aller Menschen prägen.

Klappentext

Hans Hollein (1934-2014), Austria's only Pritzker Prize laureate (1985) and a self-proclaimed avant-gardist of the 1960s, was a meticulous curator of his own work throughout his life. At the same time, the reception of this work was often overshadowed by Hollein's immense personality. Hollein Calling: Architectural Dialogues explores the Hollein phenomenon from today's perspective. In dialogue with the positions of a younger generation, this book revaluates and brings back into the current discourse Hollein's thinking and designs.

The first part offers interviews with 15 European firms in which they talk about their relationship to Hollein and his oeuvre, ranging from profound knowledge or selective admiration of specific aspects to skepticism and criticism. Topics such as cultural identity, visual worlds, design tools, and architecture as an independent cultural production run as a thread through these conversations. The second part features a selection of Hollein's buildings through sketches, models, photographs, prototypes, and documents from the Archive Hans Hollein, Az W and MAK, Vienna-many of which are published here for the first time-as well as new contextualizing texts. The two sections are connected by a grid of key terms formed of pertinent texts and images.