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Brigitte Groihofer - Raimund Abraham (UN) BUILT-Springer
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Abraham
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Springer Wien New York
The Austrian architect RAIMUND ABRAHAM, bom in
in Lienz, Tyrol, has been living, working and teaching in the
U.S.A. since
As an exponent of the Viennese
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Raimund Abraham
Throughout a year career, Raimund Abraham created visionary projects and built works of architecture, in Europe and the United States. From , Abraham studied at the Technical University of Graz, and in , he established a studio in Vienna, where he explored the depths and boundaries of architecture through building, drawing, and montage. Abraham's first book, the publication "Elementare Architektur" was made at a time of transition between architecture studies and practice. In this early volume on elemental structures, Abraham explores the built environment, absent aesthetic speculation, and determinations about design instead coming from the relative level of knowledge and also the desires of the builder. In , Abraham emigrated to the United States.
The work of Raimund Abraham has been exhibited widely at museums and galleries worldwide, including Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Museo Correr, Venice, Ital
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Opening: Wednesday, August 28, , P.M.
TransModernity, the exhibition originally conceived bygd the Architekturzentrum Wien for the inauguration of Raimund Abraham’s Austrian Cultural Forum New York, will be shown in Austria for the first time starting on August 29, The exhibition focuses on an understanding of modernism that helped to shape the twentieth-century dialogue in this field that took place between Austria and the USA, illustrating this theme with current examples of its continued influence.
The works of henke und schreieck, Jabornegg & Pálffy, and Riegler Riewe perpetuate the human vision of classical modernism, but not as the refinement of technological prowess or avant-garde form. Rather, they offer a kind of open structured &#;musical score,&#; spatial orientation plans for a multitude of uses, which are quite in agreement with Josef Frank’s motto &#; Modern is not a style. Modern is only that which gives us complete freedom.
Selected buildings designed by the thr