Everything Is Architecture

Everything Is Architecture
Everything Is Architecture

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Hans Hollein (1934–2014) died on the morning of April 24 in Vienna. Recently, his health left much to be desired: due to pneumonia, he could not take part in the celebrations on the occasion of his 80th birthday, which took place on March 30 this year.

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Hollein, the largest architect of the last third of the 20th century, is reasonably ranked among the postmodernists, but his work is much more complex and subtle than that of most of his "colleagues" in the direction. Suffice it to recall the almost surreal jewelry store Schullin in Vienna (1974) with a "gold mine" shattering the granite façade, or the Abteiberg Museum in Mönchengladbach (1982), perfectly integrated into the landscape and context of the medieval city. At the same time, Hollein was well aware of what exhibition halls should be for contemporary art: he collaborated with Joseph Beuys, was close to pop art.

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Hollein also left us with the results of his reflections on the nature of architecture. On the one hand, this is his "facade" at the exhibition "Newest Street" of the 1st Venice Biennale (1980). This street consisted of "facades" of various authors, but it was Hollein's work that entered all textbooks as a clear formula of postmodern aesthetics.

Ханс Холляйн. Фасад на выставке «Новейшая улица». Венецианская биеннале архитектуры-1980. Фото с сайта domusweb.it
Ханс Холляйн. Фасад на выставке «Новейшая улица». Венецианская биеннале архитектуры-1980. Фото с сайта domusweb.it
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And in Mönchengladbach in 1970 he showed a much more abstract exposition-installation “Everything is architecture. Exhibition on the theme of death. Death occupied an important place in his picture of the world, and, in his opinion, the simplification and disappearance of rituals associated with death and burial only testifies to the loss of vitality by our civilization.

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