Hermann Czech
Hermann Czech, Vienna, 30 May 2022
“Mere beauty could even be considered suspicious.”
As the prominent protagonist of a “quiet” architecture that “speaks only when spoken to,” Hermann Czech also became known as a theoretician, critic, and exhibition designer. 2023 saw him join forces with the collective AKT to design the Austrian contribution to the Venice Biennale of Architecture. At his atelier on Franziskanerplatz in Vienna, he recalls being influenced early on by figures such as Hegel, Adorno, Kraus, and Loos, queries architectural and public aspects of theater and parliamentary building design, and looks back upon his spatial concept for the legendary Wiener Festwochen exhibition Wunderblock.
In cooperation with the Austrian daily newspaper “Der Standard”, this Kontakt Video Portrait was published on their website www.derstandard.at on 10 March 2024.
For English subtitles please click on the "cc" icon on the control bar.
“Mere beauty could even be considered suspicious.”
As the prominent protagonist of a “quiet” architecture that “speaks only when spoken to,” Hermann Czech also became known as a theoretician, critic, and exhibition designer. 2023 saw him join forces with the collective AKT to design the Austrian contribution to the Venice Biennale of Architecture. At his atelier on Franziskanerplatz in Vienna, he recalls being influenced early on by figures such as Hegel, Adorno, Kraus, and Loos, queries architectural and public aspects of theater and parliamentary building design, and looks back upon his spatial concept for the legendary Wiener Festwochen exhibition Wunderblock.
In cooperation with the Austrian daily newspaper “Der Standard”, this Kontakt Video Portrait was published on their website www.derstandard.at on 10 March 2024.
For English subtitles please click on the "cc" icon on the control bar.