Hollein Calling

Younger architecture firms in dialogue with the work of Austrian Pritzker Prize laureate Hans Hollein (1934-2014): Almannai Fischer, Baukuh, Bovenbouw, Claudia Cavallar, Asli Çiçek, Conen Sigl, Doorzon, Expanded Design, Martin Feiersinger, David Kohn, Kuehn Malvezzi, Lütjens Padmanabhan, Manthey Kula, Monadnock, and OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen

Hans Hollein (1934-2014), Austrias only Pritzker Prize laureate (1985) and a self-proclaimed avant-gardist of the 1960s, was a meticulous curator of his own work throughout his life. At the same time, the reception of this work was often overshadowed by Holleins immense personality. Hollein Calling: Architectural Dialogues explores the Hollein phenomenon from todays perspective. In dialogue with the positions of a younger generation, this book revaluates and brings back into the current discourse Holleins thinking and designs. The first part offers interviews with 15 European firms in which they talk about their relationship to Hollein and his oeuvre, ranging from profound knowledge or selective admiration of specific aspects to skepticism and criticism. Topics such as cultural identity, visual worlds, design tools, and architecture as an independent cultural production run as a thread through these conversations. The second part features a selection of Holleins buildings through sketches, models, photographs, prototypes, and documents from the Archive Hans Hollein, Az W and MAK, Viennamany of which are published here for the first timeas well as new contextualizing texts. The two sections are connected by a grid of key terms formed of pertinent texts and images.

Lorenzo De Chiffre ist Architekt und Senior Scientist an der TU Wien sowie Autor zahlreicher Texte über Architektur in Büchern und internationalen Zeitschriften. Theresa Krenn und Benni Eder führen in Wien das Architekturbüro studio ederkrenn. Neben Praxis, Forschen und Schreiben über Architektur lehren sie beide an der TU Wien. Mark Lee ist Partner im Architekturbüro Johnston Marklee in Los Angeles und war Kurator der Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017. Monika Platzer ist Kunsthistorikerin und als Kuratorin und Sammlungsleiterin des Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) tätig. Das Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) ist das österreichische Architekturmuseum und hat sich international als herausragender Ort der Architekturvermittlung etabliert. Das Az W zeigt, diskutiert, sammelt und erforscht, wie Architektur und Stadtentwicklung das tägliche Leben aller Menschen prägen.