To mark the retirement of its founding director, the Architekturzentrum Wien is taking a look at sixty years of international architecture history with the exhibition “In the End: Architecture. Journeys through Time 1959–2019”.
Architecture journeys
The Architekturzentrum Wien opens an exhibition that takes a look at sixty years of international architecture history on architecture from 1959 to 2019.
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- 06 October 2016
- Vienna
In a globalised world with continually renewing technological and digital possibilities, the rapid developments of recent decades have plunged architecture as a creative discipline and a social phenomenon into a crisis. Large offices with global operations, star architects, industry 4.0, ever more standards to be met, and the legal and economic weakening of the profession are impacting increasingly on the role of architecture.
In the midst of the discussion on the crisis, which appears to be paralysing what is happening in the architecture sector, new and initially hardly perceptible undercurrents started to attract attention – with socially engaged, historically aware or regionally anchored approaches – and breathing new life into the discipline while counteracting the ostensible stagnation.
until 20 March 2017
In the End: Architecture. Journeys through Time 1959 – 2019
curated by Karoline Mayer, Sonja Pisarik, Katharina Ritter
Architekturzentrum Wien
Alte Halle, Museumsplatz 1
Vienna