Hermann Czech
- Bio
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.
[last updated in 2014]
- 01/06/2021NEW DEADLINE Call for Abstracts OASE #112
- THE NEW DEADLINE FOR HANDING IN YOUR ABSTRACT FOR OASE #112 IS: 15 JUNE 2021OASE editors Bart Decroos, Sereh Mandias, Elsbeth Ronner and Kornelia Dimitrova wrote a Call for Abstracts for OASE #112 with the theme “Ecological Aesthetics”. This issue of OASE is interested in contributions that investigate the role of aesthetics in contemporary ecological practices and discourses in architecture. Deadline is 15 June 2021. Read the full text of the OASE #112 Call for Abstracts in the pdf-files below.
- 28/03/2021Now available: OASE 108 Ups & Downs
> What is good, not so good or bad architecture?
> Analysis of the force field of architectural appreciation and depreciation
- 05/02/2021VIDEO: OASE #107 author Heidi Svenningsen Kajita on finding & archiving
In this video OASE #107 author Heidi Svenningsen Kajita guides us into the process of drawing collectively through the Finding & Archiving method.
- 24/01/2021VIDEO: OASE #107 author William Mann, Witherford Watson Mann Architects, on the Upper Lea Valley
In this video OASE #107 author and architect William Mann (Witherford Watson Mann architects, London) guides us through the process and drawings of the Upper Lea Valley.
- 30/11/2020Call for Abstracts OASE #111
OASE editors Asli Cicek, Jantje Engels and Maarten Liefooghe wrote a Call for Abstracts for OASE #111. The theme is: Staging the Museum. Deadline is 10 January 2021, 18:00 CET. More information in the PDF file below.
- 30/11/2020Now available: OASE #107 The Drawing in Landscape Design and Urbanism
This issue of OASE traces the role of drawing in landscape design and urbanism. It addresses ‘new traditions’ of the last 50 years, as well as recent concerns with ecological, metabolic and process-oriented questions.
- 16/07/2020Now available: OASE #106 Table Settings. Reflections on architecture with Hannah Arendt
> Positioning a new outlook on philosopher Hannah Arendt’s ideas, OASE #106 reveils how her writings very well can help us rethink architecture as a phenomenon and practice
> Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s remarkably spatial view on ‘the world and its inhabitants’
- 22/06/2020Call for Abstracts OASE #110
A Project of the Soil
Editors: David Peleman, Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni, Elsbeth Ronner
- 28/04/2020Now available: OASE #105 Practices of Drawing
> Insight into the work of both historical and contemporary architects
> With a focus on beautiful architectural drawings over the past five centuries to grasp their role in design practice
> With drawings by George Aitchison, Heinrich Tessenow, El Lissitzky, Lina Bo Bardi and Tony Fretton
- 17/12/2019Call for Papers OASE #108
OASE #108 More Than Meets the eye - Over- and underrated architecture
Editors: David Peleman, Jantje Engels, Christophe Van Gerrewey
“It is brilliant people say brilliant
while it’s mere dilettantism
What they touch becomes tasteless
always the most obvious
superficialities
even the most exalted starts to stink”
— Thomas Bernhard, Der Schein trügt, 1984
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