Titre et auteur:

Get off of my cloud : Wolf D. Prix : Coop Himmelblau : texts, 1968-2005 / edited by Martina Kandeler-Fritsch and Thomas Kramer.

Publication:

Description:

525 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Collection of texts partly published previously.
Foreword / Jeffrey Kipnis ; Christian Reder -- Programmatic texts : Coop Himmelblau is not a color, 1968 ; Our architecture has no physical ground plan, 1968 ; Int the beginning was the city, 1968 ; It is not that we should change, 1970 ; The rift in the mind of the city dweller, 1977 ; Beautiful living makes frozen lives, 1978 ; The future of the splendid desolation, 1978 ; City of nature, 1978 ; The poetry of desolation, 1979 ; The tougher architecture, 1980 ; And this is how it works, 1980 ; Architecture must blaze, 1980 ; Sections through open architecture, 1980 ; The drawing is important to us, 1982 ; The open system, 1982 ; Architecture is not accommodating, 1983 ; Open architecture, 1983 ; The dissipation of our bodies in the city, 1988 ; On the edge, 1989 ; For us, a city is ..., 1990 ; Our architecture has four cities and seven lives, 1990 ; Desert storm, 1993 ; The end of space is the beginning of architecture, 1993 ; Planning concepts, 1993 ; The architecture of clouds, 1995 -- Selected project texts : Villa Rosa, 1968 ; Villa Rosa II 1968 ; The cloud, 1968 ; Feedback Vibration City, 1971 ; Reiss Bar, 1977 ; Hot flat, 1978 ; Roter Engel (Red Angel), 1980 ; The temperature wing, 1980 ; Merz School, 1981 ; Architecture is now, 1982 ; Open house, 1983 ; Apartment complex Vienna 2, 1983 ; Youth center, Berlin, 1983 ; Skyline, 1985 ; Form-mutation, 1986 ; The heart of a city, Melun-Sénart, 1986 ; LIke sugar, white on white, 1994 -- Lectures : Architecture must blaze, 1984 ; The city as a field of clouds, 1996 ; Architecture at the end of the twentieth century, 1998 ; "Let's be realists. Let's do the impossible," 1999 ; Space for a change, 2000 -- Interviews : The desire for oblique walls, 1986 ; We were young and very bored, 1988 ; Body -- space -- time, 1996 ; Understanding Deconstructivism as a strategy, 1996 ; Resisting accommodation, 1996 ; Paradise cage, 1996 ; The psyche of architecture, 2000 ; Against the visual devastation of our environment, 2001; The box as a burial site for art: we think that's boring, 2001 ; Freeing architecture from material constraints, 2001 ; The city in the age of globalization, 2002 ; Baroque Himmelb(l)au, 2002 ; We build spaces that are as fast as cars, 2002 ; The rigor or art and the foolish pleasure principle, 2002 ; An architect who doesn't want to improve the world will always be a house builder, 2002 ; On the added value of form, 2003 ; Vienna is happy when we build abroad, 2005.
On friends and foes : Art's great wall of China: Christo, 1976 ; The monastery: Günther Domenig, 1988 ; Wd. Z., structural design: Wolfdietrich Ziesel, 1989 ; The prince: Wilhelm Holzbauer ; EM = C²: Eric Owen Moss, 1991 ; About the Reiss: Michael Satke, 1991 ; Otto Wagner, a Viennese architect, 1991 ; On Frank O. Gehry, 1995 ; Rolling the sky: the Rolling Stones, 1995 ; Promote and suppress: architect, kingmaker, and vampire: Philip Johnson, 1996 ; Congratulations to Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky on her one hundredth birthday, 1997 ; For Gerald Zugmann, 1997 ; Congratulations to Alvar Aalto on his one hundredth birthday, 1998 ; S1-2, BKK-2, and the Poor Boy's brain-surfer, 1998 ; The proud king of Samarkand: Zvi Hecker, 1999 ; Poise is costly; honor requires patience: Roland Rainer, 2000 ; A flexible modernity: Enrique Norton, 2000 ; If that isn't effectiveness!: Günther Feuerstein, 2000 ; Hitoshi Abe, wanderer in his spaces, 2000 ; Rapid eye movement Schindler: R.M. Schindler ; The American friend: Steven Holl, 2002 ; Wolf 4 Zaha: Zaha Hadid, 2003 ; Frog king and butterfly prince: Greg Lynn, 2003 ; Visionary in exile: Raimund Abraham, 2005 ; Call him Thom Mayne, 2005 -- ... And other texts : A feeling in glass, 1972 ; A museum is art, 1990 ; On urbanized landscapes, 1993 ; Ideas always have something dictatorial about them, 1995 ; Against rowing in the architecture gallery, 1995 ; Cultural buildings are mirror images, 1995 ; Gasometer in Vienna-Simmering, 1996 ; Power to fantasy, 1997 ; Vienna is not Bilbao, 1997 ; The opposite of fortresses, 1999 ; The future of architecture I, 1999 ; The future of architecture II, 2000 ; Dynamite on stage, 2000 ; Art is research, 2000 ; Acceptance speech for the Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis, Coop Himmelb(l)au, 2000 ; MAK o Muerte, 2000 ; Architecture is a dog, 2001 ; The university space is a free space, 2002 ; Opening speech of the steirischer herbst, 2002 ; Norms are regulative borders, 2003 ; Architecture as a comprehensive thought process, 2003 ; 96°13W/16°33N, 2005.

Résumé:

Coop Himmelblau was founded in 1968 in Vienna, Austria, by Wolf D. Prix and Helmut Swiczinsky and has since then continued to work within the fields of urbanism, architecture, design and art. They design each project based on a series of intense discussions which will be presented in this text.

ISBN:

3775716718 (pbk.)
9783775716710 (pbk.)
3775716483 (German)
9783775716482 (German)

Sujet:

Coop Himmelblau.
Coop Himmelblau Exhibitions.
Bouwkunst.
Architectural firms Austria Exhibitions.
Architects Austria Interviews.

Vedettes secondaires:

Kandeler-Fritsch, Martina.
Kramer, Thomas.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 243488
Cote: BIB 173237
Statut: Disponible