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Raimund Johann Abraham
Born(1933-07-23)July 23, 1933
Lienz, Tyrol, Austria
Died(2010-03-04)March 4, 2010
NationalityAustrian
Alma materTechnical University, Graz
Occupationarchitect
Austrian Cultural Forum New York

Raimund Johann Abraham (July 23, 1933 [1] – March 4, 2010 [2]) was an Austrian architect.[3]

Early life and formal education

Raimund Johann Abraham, (born 1933, Lienz, Austriadied March 4, 2010, Los Angeles, California), [4] created visionary architectural projects and built works, in Europe and the United States, throughout a 40-year career.[5] Abraham studied at the Technical University of Graz, from 1952-1958, and in 1959, he established a studio in Vienna, where he explored the depths and boundaries of architecture through building, drawing, and montage.[6] In 1964, he moved to the United States, where he first taught at the Rhode Island School of Design,[7] and then for 31-years, as a professor of architecture at the Cooper Union in Manhattan, an adjunct faculty member of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and Visiting Professor of numerous schools, including Yale School of Architecture and Environmental Studies, (Spring ’85),[8] Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London,[9] the Southern California Institute of Architecture,[10] the Open Atelier of Design,[11] and the universities of Graz, London, and Strasbourg.

Architecture

Influenced by the Viennese tradition to align architecture to sculpture, Abraham created a poetic vision of architecture of conspicuous geometric form he described on “a collision” course with human needs and desires—striving to “coexist in a state of creative tension.” [12] Critical of the mainstream architectural preoccupations with style and fashion, lacking authentic atunement to history, while rigidly defining of modernism, [13] his work has influenced generations of architects. He received a Stone Lion (1985) for Progetto Venezia at the 3rd International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale and 1st Prize for the international competition for Friedrichstadt, Berlin (1985). [14] He was awarded the Grand Prize of Architecture (1995), and Gold Medal of Honor (2005) for Meritorious Service to the Province of Vienna,. [15]

Abraham's built work includes House Dellacher (1963–67) Oberwart, Burgenland, Austria; Public Housing Complex, (1968–69) Providence, Rhode Island, M.A.Z.E. Experimental Daycare Center (1968-1970), and Rainbow Plaza (1973–77), Niagara Falls, New York, with co-designer Giuliano Fiorenzoli. He converted New York City’s Second Avenue Courthouse into a facility for the Anthology Film Archives (1980–89), along with colleagues Kevin Bone and Joseph Levin, [16] and a portfolio of published prints and published the portfolio Untitled to mark the occasio.,[17] and also a Other built work includes Friedrichstrasse 32/33 (1980–87), Berlin, Germany. for International Building Associates; the Traviatagasse housing complex (1987-1991), Vienna, in collaboration with Carl Pruscha, [18] a renovation of House Bernard (1985), Lienz, Tyrol, Austria; Residential/Commercial Building (1990–93), Graz, Austria; Hypo-House (1993–96), Lienz, Tyrol, Austria; HYPO-Bank (1993-96), Wettewerb, 1. Preis, Lienz, Tyrol, Austria; House for Musicians (1999), Deutschland, and his own home in Mazunte, Mexico. [19]

The Austrian Cultural Forum New York of New York (1993-02),[20] Abraham's best known work, has been recognized by architectural historian Kenneth Frampton as “the most significant modern piece of architecture to be realized in Manhattan since the Seagram Building and the Guggenheim Museum of 1959.” [21] Another work of Abraham's of significance, under construction at the time of his death, 'House of Music near Düsseldorf, Germany, was completed in 2013. [22][23]

Drawing

Abraham is known for creating deeply textured visionary architectural hand-drawings.[24] During the late 1950s and early 1960s he produced enigmatic works in Vienna which placed him among avant-garde architects, such as Hans Hollein, Walter Pichler, and Günther Domenig.In 1958, Raimund Abraham and classmate Friedrich St. Florian, while students in Graz, Austria, placed 3rd in a competition for the Pan Arabian University of Saudi Arabia, and 2nd in an international architectural design competitions for the Democratic Republic of the Congo Cultural Center, Leopoldville (1959). [25] During the 1960s and 70s, Abraham focused the typology of the house, and he created masterful imaginative architectural drawings, with evocative accompanying titles and texts, such Glacier City, from the Linear City Series project, Sectional perspective (1964), [26] Mega Bridges (1965), Earth-Cloud House, project (1970), The House with Curtains Project, Perspective (1972), The House without Rooms Project, Elevation and plan (1974), [27] House Without Rooms (1971–74), The Cosmology of The House (1974), [28] Synchronized Space, Black Box, Metropolitan Core, and Radar Cities. [29] Critics have described Abraham’s hand drawn works as architectural poetry on paper. [30] The shadowy worlds of complex principals and captivating spatial mediation of [31] Abraham's unbuilt projects which articulate a new contextualized monumentality, include City Of Twofold Vision, Cannaregio West, Venice, Italy (1978–80); Les Halles Redevlopment, Paris (1980); and The New Acropolis Museum, Athens (2002). [32]

Exhibitions

The work of Raimund Abraham has been exhibited widely at museums and galleries worldwide, including Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Museo Correr, Venice, Italy; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Pinacotheca, Athens, Greece; National Gallery (Berlin); Venice Biennale; German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt; Krinzinger Gallery, Innsbruck; and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois; the Museum of Modern Art and Architectural League of New York.

Solo exhibitions and programs

  • 2015: Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham (2013). Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx) Premiere, Copenhagen, :::Denmark. [33]
  • 2011: Raimund Abraham "Musikerhaus." The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union of New York.
Horst Kappauf on House for Musicians: A Great Architecture by Raimund Abraham. [34]
  • 2005: Raimund Abraham: JingYa Ocean Entertainment Center. Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, N.Y. [35]
  • 2001: Raimund Abraham : Buildings, images 1990-2000. Aam Gallery, 9 Via Castelfidaro, Milan, Italy [36]
Conference Loci last Venice, IUAV, Palazzo Badoer, Manfredo Tafuri.
  • 1993: The New Austrian Cultural Institute by Raimund Abraham. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  • 1993: The New Austrian Cultural Institute. Architectural League of New York, Urban Center.
  • 1991: [UN]BUILT, Raimund Abraham]], 1961-1995. Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery of The Cooper Union of New York. [37]
  • 1987: Raimund Abraham: [UN]BUILT. Gallery Krinzinger, Galerie Museum, Innsbruck, Switzerland. [38]
  • 1983: Raimund Abraham: works and projects, 1960-1983. Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art and the School of Architecture of :::the Polytenic University of Madrid. [39]
  • 1983: Raimund Abraham Berlin Projects [ 1980 - 1983 ]; Church on the wall , two monuments, IBA project. Aedes Gallery of
Architecture and Planning , Berlin, Germany. [40]

Group exhibitions

References

  1. ^ AEIOU profile on Raimund Abraham 4 March 2010
  2. ^ "Experimental Architect Raimund Abraham Dies in Car Accident" LA Times.com 4 March 2010
  3. ^ William Grimes, "Raimund Abraham, 76, Dies; Architect Known for Visionary Drawings", The New York Times, March 6, 2010, retrieved 12 March 2010
  4. ^ Abraham, Raimund. "Raimund Johann AbrahamAustrian-born American architect". Encyclopedia Britinicanna. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  5. ^ "Tribute to Raimund Abraham". The Austrian Cultural Forum NYC. May 13, 2005.
  6. ^ Weibel, Peter, ed. (May 17, 2005). Beyond Art: A Third Culture: A Comparative Study in Cultures, Art and Science in 20th Century Austria and Hungary (1st ed.). Vienna: Springer Vienna Architecture. ISBN 3211245626.
  7. ^ "Raimund Abraham, former RISD faculty member dies in Los Angeles". RISD Academic Affairs. March 16, 2010.
  8. ^ Whitten, Theodore; Osman, Michael, eds. (September 19, 1999). Retrospecta, 98/99: The Annual Retrospective of the Yale School of Architecture. ISBN 0967402107.
  9. ^ "Raimund Abraham Seven Gates". Architecture Association School of Architecture. January 13, 1977.
  10. ^ "SCI-Arc NEWS: ARCHITECT RAIMUND ABRAHAM (1933-2010) Dies in Car Accident in Los Angeles". Southern California Institute of Architecture. March 4, 2010.
  11. ^ The New School Archives & Special Collections. "Diital Collections: Raimund Abraham". The New School.
  12. ^ Woods, Lebbeus (April 4, 2010). "Tribute> Raimund Abraham". The Architect's Newspaper.
  13. ^ Sennott, Stephen, ed. (January 1, 2004). Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 5. ISBN 1579584349.
  14. ^ Walker Art Center (1983). "Site: The Meaning of Place in Art and Architecture". Design Quarterly. 122: 35–36.
  15. ^ Beaver, Robin; Slessor, Catherine (eds.). Contemporary Architecture CA1, CA1 Series, Volume 1 of CA: Contemporary Architecture. p. 241.
  16. ^ "About/ History". Anthology Film Archives.
  17. ^ "Untitled: Artist/ Maker Raimund Abraham". Reynolda House. Reynolda House Museum of American Art.
  18. ^ Düriegl, Günter, ed. (April 22, 2010). "Architect Raim Abraham has died in an accident". Rotweissenrot: 40.
  19. ^ "The Architecture of the Austrian Cultural Institute by Raimund Abraham". Architekturzentrum Wien. 1999.
  20. ^ Hill, John, ed. (December 5, 2011). New York City, Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture (1 ed.). W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393733262.
  21. ^ "Raimund Abraham (1933 – 2010)". Austrian Information. 63 (Spring 2010).
  22. ^ Quirk, Vanessa (July 23, 2012). "Raimund Abraham's Final Work / Photographer Thomas Mayer". Arch Daily.
  23. ^ Taylor, James (February 7, 2014). "Raimund Abraham's Last Project Realized at Former NATO Missile Base". Arch Daily.
  24. ^ Amelar, Sarah (March 9, 2010). "In Memoriam: Raimund Johann Abraham (1933-2010)". Architectural Record.
  25. ^ Morgan, William (March 1, 2014). "Submission Requirements: Design competitions and the creative economy". AIA Architect.
  26. ^ McQuaid, Matilda, ed. (2002). Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from The Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art.
  27. ^ Riley, Terrance, ed. (2002). The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. p. 116.
  28. ^ Keeney, Gavin (2011). Else-where”: Essays in Art, Architecture, and Cultural Production 2002-2011. Newcatsle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 128. ISBN 144383405X.
  29. ^ Manaugh, Geoff. "I'm exposing matter to the forces of time..." Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA).
  30. ^ Miller, Norbert (2011). "Imagination and the calculus of reality. Raimund Abraham [UN]BUILT". Springer.
  31. ^ Sky, Alison; Michelle, Stone, eds. (1976). Unbuilt America: Forgotten Architecture in the United States from Thomas Jefferson to the Space Age. New York: McGraw Hill.
  32. ^ Baraona Pohl, Ethel (September 2, 2011). "Reviews: Raimund Abramah [Un]Built: 15 years after its publication, the second edition". Domus.
  33. ^ Taubin, Amy (December 19, 2015). "Friends With Benefits". ArtForum.
  34. ^ "Raimund Abraham "Musikerhaus". NY Art Beat. 2011.
  35. ^ "RAIMUND ABRAHAM: JingYa Ocean Entertainment Center Beijing". Frederieke Taylor Gallery. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help); Check date values in: |archivedate= (help)
  36. ^ "Raimund Abraham in mostra a Milano". AR. 30 (2): 58. January 2002.
  37. ^ "Books Celebrating Exhibitions: [UN]BUILT Raimund Abraham". The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  38. ^ Abraham, R. (1986). Fingerle, Christoph Mayr (ed.). "Raimund Abraham : Ungebaut". Bozen: Forum AR/GE Kunst. OCLC 875488333. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  39. ^ Abraham, Raimund; Campo, B.A, (1983). Raimund Abraham: Obras y proyectos, 1960-1983. Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Escuela T.S. de Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Madrid: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, Comisión de Cultura. ISBN 8485572564.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  40. ^ Abraham, R.J.; Ott, N. (1983). "Raimund Abraham Berlin Projekte [1980 - 1983] ; Kirche an der Mauer, zwei Monumente, IBA Projekt ; Ausstellung vom 27. Mai bis 2. Juli 1983". Berlin: Aedes. OCLC 615123352. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  41. ^ Ryan, Raymund (May 13, 2010). "The life of Raimund Abraham: Remembering the 'incurable formalist', Austrian architect Raimund Abraham, 1933-2010". The Architectural Review.
  42. ^ Khachiyan, Anna (2015). "Bleak House: A MoMA exhibition on the single-family home and its archetypes tells us a lot without saying anything at all". The Museum of Modern Art.
  43. ^ Gardner, James (July 24, 2008). "Chaos and Danger in Architectural Design". The New York Sun. {{cite news}}: line feed character in |title= at position 10 (help)
  44. ^ Johnson, Ken (February 1, 2008). "Art Review: Under Pain of Death". The New York Times.
  45. ^ "Hombroich spaceplacelab : laboratory for other modes of living, 9:1=landscape:building". La Biennale di Venezia. 2004. OCLC 888762634. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  46. ^ Abraham, Raimund (1999). The Architecture of The Austrian Cultural Forum. Saltzburg: Verlag Anton Pustet.
  47. ^ "Architecture: Seven Architects". Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
  48. ^ Apraxine, Pierre; Castelli Gallery, Leo; University of Pennsylvania (1977). "Architecture I : Raimund Abraham, Emilio Ambasz, Richard Meier, Walter Pichler, Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, Venturi and Rauch". New York: Leo Castelli. OCLC 4155863. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  49. ^ Sitney, P. Adam. "Seven gates to Eden". London: Art Net. OCLC 63169912. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Further reading

  • Groihofer, Brigitte (Ed.): Raimund Abraham [UN]Built. Springer, 1996
  • Abraham, R.J.; Dapra, J (1964). Elementare architektur. Salzburg: Residenz Verlag.

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