Architekturzentrum Wien

If you're like me, you're a sucker for avant-garde Austrian architecture from the sixties and seventies. Which means if you're like me, you'll want this HUGE book, documenting the important voices in images and words. Coop Himmelb(l)au is here, as is Hans Hollein, HAUS-RUCKER-CO, Raimund Abraham, Walter Pichler, and many, many more. A slim volume collects the texts in English, but the roughly 1,000 pages of drawings, models, and other visual artifacts is the real treat. And as the recent spate of inflatable enclosures shows, everything old really is new again; see where it all began.… (altro)