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About:
The Austrian-born architect Raimund Abraham has lived in the United States for over 30 years. His renowned New York City building, the Austrian Cultural Forum, opened to accolades in 2002. He studied architecture in Graz and ran an architectural studio in Vienna in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Most recently Abraham has taught primarily at Cooper Union in New York, but also at Harvard, Yale, and other institutions worldwide. Drawing has always been a focus for Abraham as evidenced in his complex utopian drawings.
Books:
Abraham, Raimund. "Prospects
for a Critical Regionalism" (1983) in Theorizing a new agenda for architecture
: an anthology of architectural theory 1965-1995 / Kate Nesbitt, editor.
p. 462-65. City College Architecture Library. Ref. NA680.T45 1996.
"Abraham, Raimund:
Seven gates to Eden." in Abraham Eisenman Hejduk Rossi. New York:
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, 1997.
On Reserve.
Abraham, Raimund. Un>built.
Wien; New York: Springer, c1996. On Reserve.
Archer, B. J. Follies: architecture
for the late-twentieth-century landscape: Raimund Abraham, Agrest &
Gandelsonas, Emilio Ambasz...: ,an exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery,
New York, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles. New York: Rizzoli,
1983. CCNY Architecture Library. NA8460.A73 1983.
Architecture I: Raimund
Abraham, Emilio Ambasz, Richard Meier, Walter Pichler, Aldo Rossi, James
Stirling, Venturi and Rauch I <pref. by Pierre Apraxine>. <New
York: Leo Castelli>, c1977. CCNY Architecture Library. On Reserve.
Books listed above are available
in the library as indicated.
Articles:
(Selected
from 1993-2003)
"Atelier Raimund Abraham: Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 West 52nd Street, New York, 1998-2002." Lotus International,
2003, n.117, p.60-65.
"Cultural totem pole: cultural centre, New York, USA." Architectural review,
2003, n.117, p.60-65.
"Heroically conceived and intricately detailed, Raimund Abraham's Austrian Cultural Forum has a brooding, needlelike form." Architectural record,
2002 Aug., v.190, n.8, p.[122]-[129].
"Urban spectacle at MoMA."
/Alexander Gorlin, Jayne Merkel. Oculus 1999 May-June, v.61, n.9,
p. 11-13.
"When to fold: Finally a
mass-market version of Deleuze." / Michael Sorkin. Metropolis 1999
Dec., v.19, n.4, p. 56, 58.
"New York towers." Any
1998,
n.22, p. 28-29.
"Raimund Abraham: Banca a
Lienz, Austria = A bank at Lienz, Austria." Kenneth Frampton. Domus
1998 Feb., n.801, p.18-23.
"Raimund Abraham: Austrian
Cultural Institute, New York, New York." / Lebbeus Woods. A + U: architecture
and urbanism
1994 Apr., n.4(283), p.18-[27].
"10,000 nuovi alloggi per
Vienna = 10,000 new dwellings for Vienna." / Dietmar Steiner. Casabella
1994 mar., v.58, n.610, p.20-33, 70.
"A debate: Raimund Abraham's
design for the Austrian Cultural Institute." Oculus 1994 Jan., v.56,
n.5, p.6-7.
"Austrian Cultural Institute."
Progressive architecture 1993 Mar., v.74, n.3, p.25.
Articles listed above are
available in the CCNY Architecture Library.
Web Sites:
Architectural Record's online Project Portfolios: the Austrian Cultural Forum. archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/archives/0208austrian.asp
SHIFT.jp.org online arts journal. www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2001/11/raimund_abraham.html
Information on Abraham and his projects.
The Austrian Cultural Tower's Web Site. www.acfny.org/fs.aspx?SID=&EID=&FEID=
You can take a virtual tour of the tower.
Prepared by Judy Connorton
September 2007
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