
German Post-War Modern
In the best Viennese tradition Oswald Haerdtl (1899-1959) was more than an architect but a total designer, a Gesamtkünstler, whose postwar interiors epitomize the carefree spirit of the time. Haerdtl...
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German Post-War Modern
When in the 1950s and 1960s the Austrian states of Vorarlberg and Tyrol (and of course others too) increasingly made use of competitions for their publicly funded building projects, a practice of...
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German Post-War Modern
45 years after its consecration Fritz Wotruba’s Church of the Holy Trinity in Vienna still remains one of the most fascinating church buildings of the 20th century. Made up of 152 individually cast...
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German Post-War Modern
I don’t exactly remember when I first came across the name of Rudolf Wäger (1941-2019) but I clearly remember the first work I saw of him: the Ruhwiesen estate (1971-73) in Schlins, Vorarlberg,...
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