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Otto Ernst Schweizer, Stadium in Vienna - Stadion Wien (German, Hardcover)
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Text in German & English. When the stadium for a "Workers
Olympiad" -- one of the most beautiful complexes in Europe, as the
daily press put it -- was opened in 1931 on the occasion of the
10th anniversary of the Republic of Austria on the Prater site in
Vienna, Otto Ernst Schweizer, the architect, was suddenly
catapulted into the ranks of internationally acclaimed architects.
The stadium, which can seat 60,000, was built as an amphitheatre on
the model of its ancient predecessors, in particular the Colosseum
in Rome, which Schweizer had studied intensively; the Viennese
stadium seen as a reinterpretation of the enormous Roman structure
on the basis of the constancy of things that were valid, which was
one of the basic premises of his architecture. Otto Ernst
Schweizer, born in 1890, and thus of the same generation as Le
Corbusier, Hans Scharoun, Erich Mendelsohn and Ludwig Mies van der
Rohe, had attracted attention even as a young architect with some
outstanding competition entries, and was acclaimed for his
planetarium on the periphery of the old town in Nuremberg and for
the stands and the two cafes of the stadium complex there. He had
left municipal service as an Oberbaurat to dedicate himself to
planning and realizing the Milchhof in Nuremberg and also the
stadium in Vienna. For thirty years he worked as one of the great
teachers and researchers in the architecture faculty of the
Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe. He built -- after a long break
forced upon him by National Socialist culture policy -- the II.
Kollegiengebaude for Freiburg University. This was his last
building, and once again Schweizer's approach to form and function
was concentrated in it, almost as the quintessence of a rich
creative life. And what remains of the stadium, this most beautiful
complex in Europe, as has been said? The landscape around it has
been wrecked and allowed to fray into randomness and Schweizer's
reflecting lake in front of the arena has been filled in. The arena
itself has been enlarged by almost double its appropriate cubature
and its height increased, so generally it has changed to such an
extent that the original is unrecognisable; hence this book.
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