Title & Author:

New building today : European architecture of the 1990s / edited by Architektur Zentrum Wien ; [translation into English, Maria M. Clay and others].

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, ©1995.

Description:

xvi, 287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm

Notes:
New building in Europe? / Dietmar Steiner -- Talking about my generation / Bart Lootsma -- Perspektives / Marc Dubois -- "Optimism reigns again in Denmark, at long last"/ Kim Dirckinck-Homfeld -- Working with the limits / Neven Fuchs-Mikac -- Swedish architecture : a modest simplicity / Jöran Lindvall -- Fives : fin de siècle traces in Finnish architecture / Roger Connah -- The laws of reason / Annette Becker -- On the reality of a square / Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus -- Examples rather than the top ten / Otto Kapfinger -- Building with character / Vladimir Šlapeta -- Architecture on the counterpoint / Henrieta Hammer Moravčíkova, Matúš Dulla -- The dramatized building site / Ákos Moravánszky -- New theoretical debates / Andrej Hrausky -- Return to the modern or back to the future / Alexander Laslo -- Expectations vs. realities / Ana Maria Zahariade -- Malakasa interchange / Yorgos Simeoforidis -- The "intermediate" generation and its successors / Marco De Michelis -- The art of reacting / Marta Cervelló -- "Every building is unique" / Wilfried Wang -- Of artists and entertainers : the crises of architecture / François Chaslin -- Architecture between pragmatism and high tech / Richard Burdett -- Coming of age / Shane O'Toole.
Also issued online.

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.

ISBN:

3764352264 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9783764352264 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
0817652264 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9780817652265 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Architecture Europe History 20th century.
Architecture
Architektur
Europe
Wien
Europa

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
History

Added entries:

Architektur Zentrum Wien.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 122673
Call No.: NA958.N49 1995a
Status: Available