Writer: Erik Wegerhoff

Missing Link: Strategies of a Viennese Architecture Group (1970-1980) – Review
10.10.2022

Missing Link: Strategies of a Viennese Architecture Group (1970-1980) – Review10.10.2022

There is a strange moment in the second room of the exhibition, where all kinds of great works are hung on the walls to admire, organised around a central display of plastic and aluminium furniture: a collage of a car hovering like the golden calf amidst a crazed crowd; a… Read More

ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino
08.01.2020

ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino08.01.2020

– Emma Letizia Jones and Erik Wegerhoff

From the fifteenth century onwards, the Swiss region of Ticino was famous for its stuccatori – the skilled decorative plaster workers that migrated down to Italy in search of work ornamenting the great palaces and churches of the Renaissance. Further generations of these craftsmen made their way over the Gotthard pass to… Read More

TagsDMC elevation detail student work theoretical & imaginary

Zünd-Up: Erotische Architektur
27.05.2017

Zünd-Up: Erotische Architektur27.05.2017

– Erik Wegerhoff

Collage was a favourite medium of Pop artists, since it inherited from its forerunners the quality of enabling chance meetings, and allowed artists to assemble images from the by then endless reservoir of commercial culture. This collage from the series Erotische Architektur (Erotic Architecture), dated 1969 and signed by the Viennese activist and architecture group Zünd-Up, can… Read More

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