To the Nineties of Gustav Peichl
In these days, a remarkable anniversary was celebrated by a legend of Austrian architecture. Gustav Peichl made his mark not only as the author of unmistakable postmodern buildings but also as a sardonic caricaturist commenting on social events under the pseudonym Ironimus. With the same detachment with which he viewed political events, he also designed houses into which he incorporated small pranks and foreign elements.
Freshly turned ninety, Gustav Peichl studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Professor Clemens Holzmeister. He subsequently collaborated with Roland Rainer before establishing an independent studio in Vienna in the mid-1950s. Together with Hans Hollein, Walter Pichler, and Oswald Oberhuber, he founded the journal for architecture and urban planning “Bau”. From the mid-1960s, he contributed his drawings to newspapers and magazines. In 1973, he became head of the master's studio at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where he remained for more than two decades.
Peichl's work is closely tied to the Austrian television ORF, for which he created a series of regional studios combining a modernist appearance with a technocratic aesthetic. In other projects, he developed the spirit of interwar modernism, without, like his Austrian colleagues, succumbing to the then fashionable postmodernism or deconstructivism.
On the occasion of this anniversary, the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) prepared an exhibition “Gustav Peichl: 15 Buildings for the 90th”, which was opened at yesterday's festive vernissage by Wolf D. Prix. Already in 2013, Peichl dedicated his entire archive capturing over half a century of his professional career to the MAK. On the occasion of the celebrations, MAK decided to select fifteen buildings from Peichl's seventy realizations from the period 1958 – 2001 to showcase at the exhibition, which will last until mid-August. In addition to 141 original sketches, the exhibition also features photographs by Pola Sieverdin, who captured the current state of Peichl's now legendary buildings.
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Freshly turned ninety, Gustav Peichl studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Professor Clemens Holzmeister. He subsequently collaborated with Roland Rainer before establishing an independent studio in Vienna in the mid-1950s. Together with Hans Hollein, Walter Pichler, and Oswald Oberhuber, he founded the journal for architecture and urban planning “Bau”. From the mid-1960s, he contributed his drawings to newspapers and magazines. In 1973, he became head of the master's studio at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where he remained for more than two decades.
Peichl's work is closely tied to the Austrian television ORF, for which he created a series of regional studios combining a modernist appearance with a technocratic aesthetic. In other projects, he developed the spirit of interwar modernism, without, like his Austrian colleagues, succumbing to the then fashionable postmodernism or deconstructivism.
On the occasion of this anniversary, the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) prepared an exhibition “Gustav Peichl: 15 Buildings for the 90th”, which was opened at yesterday's festive vernissage by Wolf D. Prix. Already in 2013, Peichl dedicated his entire archive capturing over half a century of his professional career to the MAK. On the occasion of the celebrations, MAK decided to select fifteen buildings from Peichl's seventy realizations from the period 1958 – 2001 to showcase at the exhibition, which will last until mid-August. In addition to 141 original sketches, the exhibition also features photographs by Pola Sieverdin, who captured the current state of Peichl's now legendary buildings.
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