Edited by Hemma Schmutz. Text by Ludwig Engel, Verena Konrad, Karin Wilhelm.
A playful guide to the spatial experiments of Viennese architecture collective Haus-Rucker-Co
An integral part of the Austrian postwar avant-garde, Haus-Rucker-Co was a Viennese art group founded in 1967 by Laurids Ortner, Günther Zamp Kelp and Klaus Pinter. Many of their works were at the intersection of art and architecture, with their installations involving pneumatic devices, often controlled by the participants, to explore perceptions of space. Their exploration of utopian architecture put them in a similar realm with other 1960s artist groups including Ant Farm, Archizoom, Superstudio and Coop Himmelblau. Atemzonen is the first compilation of the major parts of Haus-Rucker-Co’s work, providing an overview of the group’s diverse oeuvre. While sharing the same binding, one part of the book opens horizontally while the other opens vertically. These two different orientations provide the most ideal representation of the group’s projects, while simultaneously creating a spatial experience for the viewer.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books
John Hill
This atypical catalog is special — and appropriate given the group's importance in avant-garde circles in the late 1960s — as it is two literally publications in one.
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books
John Hill
Notable as a documentation of the archive that the City of Linz and its Lentos museum obtained, but also for the way it extends the group’s countercultural thinking about architecture and cities to the creation of the book itself.
FORMAT: Hbk, 2 vols, 9.75 x 6.75 in. / 184 pgs / 550 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $35.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $52 ISBN: 9783753304410 PUBLISHER: Walther König, Köln AVAILABLE: 7/2/2024 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: FLAT40 PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Hemma Schmutz. Text by Ludwig Engel, Verena Konrad, Karin Wilhelm.
A playful guide to the spatial experiments of Viennese architecture collective Haus-Rucker-Co
An integral part of the Austrian postwar avant-garde, Haus-Rucker-Co was a Viennese art group founded in 1967 by Laurids Ortner, Günther Zamp Kelp and Klaus Pinter. Many of their works were at the intersection of art and architecture, with their installations involving pneumatic devices, often controlled by the participants, to explore perceptions of space. Their exploration of utopian architecture put them in a similar realm with other 1960s artist groups including Ant Farm, Archizoom, Superstudio and Coop Himmelblau. Atemzonen is the first compilation of the major parts of Haus-Rucker-Co’s work, providing an overview of the group’s diverse oeuvre. While sharing the same binding, one part of the book opens horizontally while the other opens vertically. These two different orientations provide the most ideal representation of the group’s projects, while simultaneously creating a spatial experience for the viewer.
