Is a Viennese architect and writer. He studied architecture at the Technical University and the Academy of Fine Arts (under Ernst Plischke), both in Vienna. From 1974 to 1980, he was an assistant to Hans Hollein and Johannes Spalt at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. Hermann Czech was a visiting professor there as well: and at Harvard University, ETH Zürich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He has published numerous texts on architecture, especially on the work of Josef Frank and Adolf Loos. His architectural work has been awarded several national and international awards.
Ecological Pedagogies / Written by Janna Bystrykh, Bart Decroos, Jantje Engels, Sereh Mandias, Elsbeth Ronner / Deadline 1 December 2024
Geert Bekaert Prize for Architecture Criticism
Book
Reviews
From Words
to Buildings
In this issue of OASE, the history of the
architectural book review is outlined through case studies. This Call is written by Christophe Van Gerrewey and Hans Teerds. The deadline is 20 December 2023.
What
does the author’s ‘owning’ of a project mean? And does this sense of
ownership still prevail in contemporary architecture culture? Other more
open forms of cooperation and co-creation are emerging alongside the
concept of individual singular authorship.
Through a
series of concrete projects, the contributions in this issue explore the
field of tension between architectural aesthetics and issues of energy,
technology and materiality. Ecological practices in architecture must
not only be effective in providing solutions, but inevitably raise
questions of beauty, affection and perception as well.