– Editors and Nicholas Olsberg

The Austrian architect Hans Hollein (1934–2014) studied under Clemens Holzmeister at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and then at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the College of Environmental Design at the University of California Berkeley. With the sculptor and designer Walter Pichler he introduced a body of experimental and utopian ideas in an exhibition at the Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna in 1963. He opened a practice in 1964, and worked both theoretically and practically in built works and theatre and product design, and as a teacher and curator, throughout the world, with his thematic exhibitions and designs for museum buildings for art and science attracting special notice.

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Drawings, 1959–1969

STUDY SKETCHES TOWARD A UTOPIAN ARCHITECTURE, c.1959–1964

Twenty-four sheets of study drawings, many entered in sketchbooks that were later broken up by the architect, deriving from his travels and investigations in the United States and soon after, observing built forms in the desert landscape and imagining ideal cityscapes and structures, some adapted from those observations. The majority of the selection was curated in consultation with the artist’s estate to represent a core of ideas in process at a turning point in the architect’s thinking. Much of the inquiry shown took further shape in the 1963 collaborative exhibition with Walter Pichler.

Monument for Ettore Bugatti: Section for the first version, 1969

Graphic Material and Catalogues, 1970–1972

Alles ist Architektur: Eine Austellung zum Thema Tod, 1970

A limited-edition artist portfolio with prints and pressed botanical specimens, issued at the time of the exhibition in Mönchengladbach.

Casabella, November 1972

A copy of issue no. 371 of Casabella, in which he appears largely through product and display design.

Catalogue for his Austrian exhibition at Venice Biennale, 1972

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