Title & Author:

Hot questions, cold storage : architecture from Austria : the permanent exhibition at the Az W / Angelika Fitz, Monika Platzer, Architekturzentrum Wien.

Publication:

Vienna : Architekturzentrum Wien ; Zurich : Park Books, [2023]

Description:

383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-379) and index.
Preface / Angelika Fitz and Karin Lux -- Introduction / Angelika Fitz and Monika Platzer -- Keep it hot / Monika Platzer -- Collections that speak back / Tom Avermaete -- Cold Storage -- Elements -- Players -- Planet -- Capital --Habitat -- Common good -- Image -- Making-of, Trading spaces / Michael Hieslmair, Michael Zinganel seite zwei / Christoph Schörkhuber, and Stefanie Wurnitsch

Summary:

The new permanent display of Architekturzentrum Wien's (Az W) collection, opened in February 2022, is a milestone in the presentation of architecture and its social dimensions. Now this most comprehensive collection on Austrian architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries, featuring color images of all exhibits, concise texts, and thematic essays, also becomes available in book format. Hot Questions--Cold Storage takes a fresh look at the country's architectural culture of the last 150 years, situating it in its cultural, social, political, economic, and technical contexts. Each of the seven chapters is prefaced by one of seven questions of our present, asking, for example, about the impact of financial capitalism on our cities and villages, about how we want to live, or about the contribution architecture can make to our survival on planet earth. These Hot Questions bring to life the Cold Storage, the silent repository of the collection's holdings. The book offers a multi-perspective narrative that makes visible Austria's building history with all the developments, ideologies, institutions, objects, places, personalities it comprises. The book also illustrates what the collection of a museum of architecture can achieve. It is far more than mere flotsam and jetsam of history. The social relevance of objects and documents is revealed through questioning and visualization, in connecting research and the museum's mission to collect. Exhibition: Architekturzentrum Wien, Austria (03.02.2022 - permanent).

ISBN:

9783038603184 English edition paperback
303860318X

Subject:

Architektur Zentrum Wien Exhibitions.
Architecture Austria Exhibitions.
Architecture Autriche Expositions.
Architecture, Austrian

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Fitz, Angelika, editor.
Platzer, Monika, editor.
Architektur Zentrum Wien host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318062
Call No.: 318062
Copy: 1
Status: Available