Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the
re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly
the US, this book investigates the art and architecture scene in
Vienna to ask how this can inform our broader understanding of
architectural Postmodernism. The book focuses on the outputs of the
Austrian artist and architect, Hans Hollein, and on his
appropriation as a Postmodernist figure. In Vienna, the circles of
radical art and architecture were not distinct, and Hollein's claim
that 'Everything is Architecture' was symptomatic of this
intermixing of creative practices. Austria's proximity to the
so-called 'Iron Curtain' and its post-war history of four-power
occupation gave a heightened sense of menace that emerged strongly
in Viennese art in the Cold War era. Seen as a collective entity,
Hans Hollein's works across architecture, art, writing, exhibition
design and publishing clearly require a more diverse, complex and
culturally nuanced account of architectural Postmodernism than that
offered by critics at the time. Across the five chapters, Hollein's
outputs are viewed not as individual projects, but as symptomatic
of Austria's attempts to come to terms with its Nazi past and to
establish a post-war identity.
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