The Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture is called Form, Raum, Net (shape, space, network), three terms that express the main ideas that have shaped our view of the city’s organization since early modernism. Without intending to imply completeness, by thematizing these terms reference is made to works by Austrian architects that have been capable of achieving a concise visualization of their era’s contemporary architectural discussion.
“Raum” was illustrated by Frederick Kiesler’s Raumstadt (1925); the “Form” of a city by Hans Hollein’s Flugzeugträger (1964) by Hans Hollein; and “Netz” was presented using the project that Gregor Eichinger developed specifically for the Biennale and which i failed to find exciting.
Like most of the visitors i was amazed by the “historical” part of the exhibition that showed two examples of Austrian urban utopia:
City in Space and Aircraft Carrier City
Raumstadt/City in Space was part of Austria’s contribution to […]
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