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Pietro Nobile (1776–1854), originally from Ticino in Switzerland, Director of the School of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, court architect and protégé of the Austrian Chancellor of State Clemens Lothar Metternich, attempts to combine science, mechanics, and aesthetics in architecture. An architect trained both as an engineer and academically, who(...)
Pietro Nobile (1776-1854) Neo-classicism between technique and beauty
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Pietro Nobile (1776–1854), originally from Ticino in Switzerland, Director of the School of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, court architect and protégé of the Austrian Chancellor of State Clemens Lothar Metternich, attempts to combine science, mechanics, and aesthetics in architecture. An architect trained both as an engineer and academically, who reformed teaching at the School of Architecture at the Academy in Vienna by reacting to the design methods introduced at the Polytechnic in Paris, and by making academic drawing compulsory for engineers. The publication presents the results of the Italian-Austrian-Czech cooperation, based on the architect’s death estate in Trieste and Bellinzona, Switzerland, as well as materials scattered throughout Europe.
Architecture Monographs
Neutra Taschen 25
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Born and raised in Vienna, Richard Neutra had come to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being particularly suited to his cool, sleek modern style.
Architecture Monographs
August 2009
Neutra Taschen 25
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Born and raised in Vienna, Richard Neutra had come to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being particularly suited to his cool, sleek modern style.
Architecture Monographs
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In this volume, Daniel Spoerri (born 1930) embarks on an unconventional dialogue with objects in the Vienna Museum of Natural History, juxtaposing the collections with his own works of art - which themselves are inspired by the aesthetics of collections and taxonomies.
Daniel Spoerri : at the Natural History Museum, an incompetent dialogue?
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In this volume, Daniel Spoerri (born 1930) embarks on an unconventional dialogue with objects in the Vienna Museum of Natural History, juxtaposing the collections with his own works of art - which themselves are inspired by the aesthetics of collections and taxonomies.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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For 15 years, Swiss documentary photographer Jules Spinatsch has been creating panoramas of various spaces—football stadiums, the Vienna Opera Ball, a prison, the SAP headquarters—by combining thousands of individual images. Spinatsch’s series and his creative process are documented in this volume.
Jules Spinatsch: semiautomatic photography
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For 15 years, Swiss documentary photographer Jules Spinatsch has been creating panoramas of various spaces—football stadiums, the Vienna Opera Ball, a prison, the SAP headquarters—by combining thousands of individual images. Spinatsch’s series and his creative process are documented in this volume.
Photography monographs
Adolf Krischanitz: architect
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This publication surveys the eclectic projects of Austria-based architect Adolf Krischanitz (born 1946), covering every genre from furniture to museum design. Among Krischanitz’s best-known buildings are the Temporary Kunsthalle on the Schlossplatz in Berlin and the 21 Haus in Vienna.
Adolf Krischanitz: architect
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This publication surveys the eclectic projects of Austria-based architect Adolf Krischanitz (born 1946), covering every genre from furniture to museum design. Among Krischanitz’s best-known buildings are the Temporary Kunsthalle on the Schlossplatz in Berlin and the 21 Haus in Vienna.
Architecture Monographs
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The Austrian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale focuses on housing. Curators Michael Obrist, Sabine Pollak, and Lorenzo Romito contrast the top-down model of social housing construction in Vienna with the bottom-up model of self-organization in Rome’s civil society. What can a system organized at state or municipal level learn from an approach based on(...)
ARCH+ Wien/Roma: Agency for Better Living
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The Austrian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale focuses on housing. Curators Michael Obrist, Sabine Pollak, and Lorenzo Romito contrast the top-down model of social housing construction in Vienna with the bottom-up model of self-organization in Rome’s civil society. What can a system organized at state or municipal level learn from an approach based on informal activism, and vice versa? Could a synthesis of the two models perhaps be a starting point for overcoming the acute lack of affordable housing in our cities? And what does good housing and a better life involve today anyway? In the accompanying issue of ARCH+, the developments in Vienna and Rome are discussed in essays, discussion formats, and numerous infographics.
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This monograph presents research by Vienna-based artist Sofie Thorsen (born 1971) on an artistic phenomenon of postwar Austria—sculptures designed by artists for children to play on. Thorsen's works make explicit the connections between abstract sculpture, architecture, urban planning and the aesthetics of play.
Sophie Thorsen : play sculpture
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This monograph presents research by Vienna-based artist Sofie Thorsen (born 1971) on an artistic phenomenon of postwar Austria—sculptures designed by artists for children to play on. Thorsen's works make explicit the connections between abstract sculpture, architecture, urban planning and the aesthetics of play.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Fin-de-siècle Vienna was a hive of creative activity, and at its centre was one of the most versatile artists of the age, Koloman Moser (1868–1918). As a teacher, artist and craftsman, Moser had an immense influence on the tastes of his time, with talents that ranged from illustration and graphics to stained glass and the design of stage sets and postage stamps. In(...)
Koloman Moser : master of Viennese modernism
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Fin-de-siècle Vienna was a hive of creative activity, and at its centre was one of the most versatile artists of the age, Koloman Moser (1868–1918). As a teacher, artist and craftsman, Moser had an immense influence on the tastes of his time, with talents that ranged from illustration and graphics to stained glass and the design of stage sets and postage stamps. In 1897 Moser co-founded the Vienna Secession, and in 1903, together with his friend and colleague Josef Hoffmann, he founded the Wiener Werkstätte, whose workshops were to set trends that spread far beyond the boundaries of Vienna. He devoted the last years of his life to painting, and in recent times his reputation in this field too has steadily grown. Despite the wealth of information that has survived down the years, Moser’s personality remains largely hidden behind his work. Here, Maria Rennhofer joins the many fragments of Moser’s personal life, his artistic influences and his multifaceted creativity into a coherent portrait of this fascinating man. This is not only the first comprehensive account of Moser’s life and work, but it is also an in-depth look at the flourishing artistic environment which he did so much to create and shape.
Design Monographs
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Kolo Moser was one of the most important universal artists in fin-de-siècle Vienna and is one of the leading representatives of Art Nouveau. His oeuvre includes painting, graphics, and crafts, as well as designs for fashion, lighting, and furniture, stage decoration, stained glass windows, book illustrations, and even banknotes. Blazing a trail for the art of his age, he(...)
Koloman Moser: universal artist between Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann
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Kolo Moser was one of the most important universal artists in fin-de-siècle Vienna and is one of the leading representatives of Art Nouveau. His oeuvre includes painting, graphics, and crafts, as well as designs for fashion, lighting, and furniture, stage decoration, stained glass windows, book illustrations, and even banknotes. Blazing a trail for the art of his age, he was a founding member of the Vienna Secession and, together with the architect Josef Hoffmann and the industrialist Fritz Wärndorfer, he established the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903. The objective of this collective of fine artists was to realize the Gesamtkunstwerk or total work of art at the highest caliber of arts and crafts. Some 400 objects, presented systematically and explained with essays, open up a new perspective on his impressive oeuvre.
Design Monographs
City of comings and goings
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"City of Comings and Goings" explores how architectural design and planning play crucial roles in Western European cities marked by migration—such as London, Berlin or Vienna. The book collects essays by local scholars in these cities and presents 100 projects tackling the issue of migration on different scales.
City of comings and goings
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"City of Comings and Goings" explores how architectural design and planning play crucial roles in Western European cities marked by migration—such as London, Berlin or Vienna. The book collects essays by local scholars in these cities and presents 100 projects tackling the issue of migration on different scales.
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