A+U 554 Hermann Czech

Description

Hermann Czech gained recognition in Europe in the 1970s with projects based on a strategy of continuation and convention instead of contrast. His work includes homes, hotels, schools, and urban planning, as well as small-scale interventions and exhibition design. In rejecting facile connections between theory and practice, he developed a multidimensional, critical and early postmodern position amid a climate of reformation and avant-gardism. Guest-edited by Christian Kühn of Technische Universität Wien, this issue explores the many facets of Czech’s architectural thought and practice through works ranging from furniture design to urban-scale infrastructure.

CONTENTS

• Feature: Hermann Czech
• Essay: Hermann Czech and the Disappearance of Architecture, Christian Kühn
• “Less” or “More” – Introduction
• Apartment house Petrusgasse
• Kurhaus restaurant Baden-Baden
• Biennale 2000
• Spatial Urban Planning
• Methods
• Winter glazing Opera loggia
• Convertible roof over Graben
• M House
• Exhibition The Vienna Circle
• Exhibition Schubert97
• Exhibition von hier aus Düsseldorf
• Irony
• Transformation Schwarzenberg Palais
• Wunder-Bar
• S House
• Pavilion Frankfurt Palmengarten
• Furnishing Swiss Re Centre, Zurich
• Antiquarian Bookshop Löcker & Wögenstein
• The Existent
• Café in Museum of Applied Arts
• Terrace Housing Brunnengasse
• Rosa Jochmann Elementary School
• Stadtparksteg Pedestrian bridge
• Urbani House transformation
• Conversion Apartment with tower Bäckerstraße
• Rooftop Günthergasse
• Paltaufgasse Block development at elevated underground terminal
• Gloriette transformation
• Pluralism
• Kleines Café
• Wine House PUNKT
• Fair Hotel
• Villa addition / renovation Altenberg
• “Housing for Generations” Mühlgrund
• Exhibition Wunderblock (History of the Modern Soul)
• Exhibition Vienna 1938
• Project List

144 pages, ills colour & bw / 22 x 29 cm / English, Japanese