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Title

New building today : European architecture of the 1990s / edited by Architektur Zentrum Wien.

Publication

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, [1995], ©1995.

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Architektur Zentrum Wien.

Description

xvi, 287 pages : illustrations; 33 cm

Summary

• "There is a new architecture in Europe" was the motto of the first and second Vienna Architecture Congress. With the end of a divided Europe, experts from nearly all countries of this multi-cultured continent convened in 1993 and 1994 to hold discussions on the nature of European architecture in the 1990s.
• The present volume contains the revised and edited contributions to this congress. Its aim is not to confirm what has already been reported by the media, but rather to draw attention to new tendencies and problems; the formative factors and roots of architecture in Europe; its complexity and heterogeneity, its hopes and achievements as perceived by expert observers from each participating country.
• Speakers were asked to address but a single question: What are the five best examples of architecture in your country of the last five years?
• Unsurprisingly, the replies were disparate, in keeping with the uniqueness of each national situation. Europe's new architecture is coming across exactly like its exponents: heterogeneous, multilayered, embarking on discovery and ready for dialogue. But in one feature the examples presented here are alike: all are searching for architectural inspiration which will tie them to the modern classical tradition.

Subjects

• Architecture > Europe
• Architecture > Europe > History > 20th century

Contents

• New Building in Europe?: Preface / Dietmar Steiner -- Talking About my Generation: The Netherlands / Bart Lootsma -- Perspektives: Belgium / Marc Dubois -- "Optimism Reigns Again in Denmark - at Long Last": Denmark / Kim Dirckinck-Homfeld -- Working With the Limits: Norway / Neven Fuchs-Mikac -- Swedish Architecture - A Modest Simplicity: Sweden / Joran Lindvall -- Fives. Fin de Siecle Traces in Finnish Architecture: Finland / Roger Connah -- The Laws of Reason: Germany / Annette Becker -- On the Reality of a Square: Switzerland / Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus -- Examples Rather Than the Top Ten: Austria / Otto Kapfinger -- Building with Character: Czech Republic / Vladimir Slapeta -- Architecture on the Counterpoint: Slovakia / Henrieta Hammer Moravcikova and Matus Dulla -- The Dramatized Building Site: Hungary / Akos Moravanszky -- New Theorectical Debates: Slovenia / Andrej Hrausky -- Return to the Modern or Back to the Future: Croatia / Alexander Laslo --
• Expectations vs. Realities: Romania / Ana Maria Zahariade -- Malakasa Interchange: Greece / Yorgos Simeoforidis -- The "Intermediate" Generation and its Successors: Italy / Marco De Michelis -- The Art of Reacting: Spain / Marta Cervello -- "Every Building is Unique": Portugal / Wilfried Wang -- Of Artists and Entertainers: The Crises of Architecture: France / Francois Chaslin -- Architecture between Pragmatism and High Tech: Great Britain / Richard Burdett -- Coming of Age: Ireland / Shane O'Toole -- Presentation of the Congress: Biographies.

ISBN

• 3764352264 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
• 0817652264 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

LCCN

95041155

OCLC

• 33244722
• ocm33244722

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries