We Günther Domenig: Reevaluation of a Legend - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3038604550 ISBN 13: 9783038604556

Verlag: Park Books, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

We Günther Domenig is an attempt to correct traditional biographies on architects. The case at hand is Günther Domenig (1934–2012), a towering figure of 20th-century Austrian architecture. This book does not question his outstanding ability to invent complex sculptural architecture, his obsession with total control of space, and his fighting power to enforce his ideas (with inevitable collateral damage). Yet, it does make clear: he was not on his own―Günther Domenig were many!

We Günther Domenig charts his career from the perspective of clients, partners, employees, and collaborators from other professional fields. Just as they were inspired by him, they also shaped the personality and designer Günther Domenig. They all sought, and found, in him an occasionally stubborn partner to realize their own visions.

The book showcases “his” buildings and unrealized projects, supplemented by short biographies of the key participants, reflecting their respective roles in joint undertakings. Moreover, it explores Domenig’s two decades as a professor at Graz University of Technology’s Faculty of Architecture (1980–2000). Teaching boosted his own career and induced a back-and-forth flux of knowledge and people―students and employees of different generations―between his studio and the university.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Wolfdieter Dreibholz held leading positions in the Austrian federal state of Styria’s department of building and construction and was chief executive of Vienna-based architecture firm Coop Himmelb(l)au. In 2022, he initiated the exhibition Wir Günther Domenig at Kunsthaus Muerz, Austria.

Michael Zinganel is an architectural theorist, cultural historian, artist, and curator based in Graz and Vienna. In 2022 he was curator of the exhibition Wir Günther Domenig at Kunsthaus Muerz, Austria.

WolfdieterDreibholz war in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren in führender Position in der Landesbaudirektion des Landes Steiermark für eine Qualitätssteigerung im Bauwesen mitverantwortlich und Promotor der «Grazer Schule». Er gründete das Haus der Architektur Graz und initiierte die Architekturstiftung Österreich. 2022 war er Initiant der Ausstellung Wir Günther Domenig im Kunsthaus Muerz.

MichaelZinganel lebt und arbeitet als Architekturtheoretiker, Kulturhistoriker, Künstler und Kurator in Graz und Wien, wo er u.a. das Museum Nordwestbahnhof betreibt. Er hat während seines Studiums an der TU Graz Günther Domenig als Professor erlebt und u.a. in seinem Büro und an seinem früheren Institut gearbeitet. 2022 kuratierte er die Ausstellung Wir Günther Domenig im Kunsthaus Muerz.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Park Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3038604550
• ISBN 13: 9783038604556
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Herausgeber: Dreibholz Wolfdieter, Zinganel Michael
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