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Vienne Architecture Conference June 13, 2010
VIENNA ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE 2010
IN THE ABSENCE OF RAIMUND ABRAHAM
(Un)Built – Architecture Live 7
June 13, 2010
1pm–3.30pm
University of Applied Arts, Lichthof B,
Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna
Architecture Live 7 presents the work and uncompromising spirit that Raimund Abraham gave the field of architecture in conjunction with a selected group of Alumni that will share their perspective towards architecture beyond the bounds of this University. In 2003/04 seven students from Studio Prix (Tercer Pisos) spent six months in Mexico constructing TECHO EN MEXICO. Raimund Abraham was an integral participant at this event.
The Institute of Architecture highlights for the first time its alumni program AAAC (Applied Architecture Alumni Club) and invited Graduates to give brief statements concerning their professional experiences, sharing both positive and negative insights.
Thom Mayne (morphosis), Pritzker-Prize winner 2005
Keynote lecture
Discussion moderated by Klaus Stattmann with: Erich Bernard (BWM), Matias del Campo (SPAN), Nora Graw (cloud 9), Marie-Therese Harnoncourt (the next ENTERprise), Giulio Polita (Coop Himmelb(l)au), Kristina Schinegger and Stefan Rutzinger (SOMA), Thomas Vietzke (Zaha Hadid)
Followed by
The Presence of the Absence
4pm–7.30pm
MAK, Weiskirchnerstraße 3
1010 Vienna
The Presence of the Absence: Architecture between ideal and materiality. To keep present the absence of the ideal in reality is the issue of architeture. Does architecture have to be materialized or is its utopian excess only preserved in the design, the drawing, the model?
Kenneth Frampton: Laudation on Raimund Abraham
Werner Faymann: In Promotion of Contemporary Architecture
Round Table Discussions moderated by Kenneth Frampton with: Vito Acconci (N.Y.)/Peter Eisenman (N.Y.)/Peter Kubelka (Vienna)/ Thom Mayne (L.A.)/Jonas Mekas (N.Y.)/Eric Owen Moss (L.A.)/Peter Noever (Vienna)/Wolf Prix (Vienna)/Lebbeus Woods (N.Y.)
Presentations: Jonas Mekas “30 years footage RA”/Andrea Lenardin (L.A.) & Alexis Rochas (L.A.): “Teacher and Mentor”
Followed by a reception in honour of Raimund Abraham with outdoor projections and installations by students and alumni.
09/06/10
From Chicken Wire to Wire Frame _ Kiesler’s Endless House, June 10, 7pm
Opening: Tuesday, 10th of June 2010, 7 p.m.
Kiesler Foundation Vienna, Mariahilfer Straße 1b, 1060 Vienna
June 11– September 17, 2010 Monday-Friday: 10 am-5 pm
Frederick Kiesler’s project of the Endless House is unparalleled one of the icons of 20th century architecture. Based on the model of 1959 which is made out of chicken wire and concrete, his large format “galaxies” and lyric poetry, the exhibition emphasizes on the utopian potential of his visionary architectural concepts. To date, the endless house exerts a compelling fascination for architects as well as for artists. The Kiesler Foundation presents the recent research of the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts for a possible realisation of the endless house architecture by means of high tech tools: From Chicken Wire to Wire Frame!
With works by students from the seminar “constructing the endless house” WS/SS 2009/10
Structural Design 3 with Klaus Bollinger, Wilfried Braumüller, Clemens Preisinger, Arne Hoffmann, Florian Medicus
at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
07/06/10
Round table discussion Melk_contemporary, June 8, 7.30pm
"the problem of large"
round table discussion with
Wolf D. Prix, Klaus Bollinger, Holger Hagge, Matthias Boeckl, Anton Falkeis
7pm, Seminarraum B, DG
07/06/10
IoA Sliver Lecture Wolf D. Prix, IoA Sliver Gallery Opening Brain City Lab May 17
IOA Sliver Lecture and Gallery Opening: Brain City Lab
May 17th 2010, 8 pm , Lichthof 2
Wolf D. Prix
Wann hört es endlich auf zu dauern? Die Möglichkeit im Unmöglichen.
Wolf D. Prix, born in Vienna in 1942, is a cofounder of COOP
HIMMELB(L)AU. He studied architecture at the Vienna University of
Technology, the Architectural Association of London, and the Southern
California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. In 1993 he responded
to a call as professor of the University of Applied Arts Vienna where
he serves as vice-rector and head of the Institute for Architecture. Wolf
D. Prix received numerous awards including the Great Austrian State
Award, the nomination Officier de l’ordre des arts et des letters, the
Gold Medal for merits to the federal state of Vienna, the Annie Spink
Award for Excellence in Architectural Education, RIBA Jencks Award as
well as the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art. As
Design Principal of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU his architectural designs
have been featured in many museums and collections worldwide including
the solo retrospectives Construire le Ciel at the Centre Georges
Pompidou in Paris, France (1992), the exhibition Deconstructivist
Architecture at MoMA (1988), New York or COOP HIMMELB(L)AU:
Beyond the Blue at the Museum of Applied Arts/ Contemporary Art,
Vienna (2007) and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2009).
IoA Sliver Gallery Opening
Brain City Lab
Initiation of a large-scale research based on a thesis of the neuroscientist
Wolf Singer suggesting a comparison between the architecture of the human brain as model for complex urban structures. The presented project marks a first step and intermediate result of this interdisciplinary research. Being an architectural and urbanistic exploration of parallels between the structure and growth of the city and the human brain the BRAIN CITY LAB aims to find solutions – provided they exist – for strategies on the development of cities.
Upcoming Sliver events 2010
May 25th, 7pm: Daniel Bosia, Structural Engineer, ARUP, London
12/05/10
Midreviews Studio Lynn, Hadid
Studio Lynn, May 4, 11am
Guest: Christian Moeller
Studio Hadid, May 18,
03/05/10