MICHAEL WALLRAFF "LOOKING UP. VERTICAL PUBLIC SPACE"
31/10/2011.
MAK Gallery. [VIENNA] AUSTRIA. 05/10/2011-15/04/2012
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
The Viennese architect Michael Wallraff’s visions of urban planning represent a clear break from tried-and-true scenarios of horizontal city development. Wallraff has spent years delving deeply into both the use of vertical spaces in the city’s fabric and ways of creating new dimensions of social interaction via prototypical open public spaces situated within densely populated urban structures. A broad sampling of his experimental projects and ideas can be seen starting on 5 October 2011 in the MAK exhibition looking up. vertical public space.
Verticity Hong Kong. Skyline view. Michael Wallraff Architekten.
Rendering. Infobox Hauptbahnh of Wien.
Infobox station in Vienna. Drawings.
Infobox station in Vienna. Model. © Photo Michael Wallraff Architekten.
Detail. Verticity Hong Kong. Skyline view. Michael Wallraff Architekten.
Margaret Tower, Viena. Model photos. © Photo Michael Wallraff Architekten.
Landesberufsschulzentrum Graz-St. Peter, erster Bauabschnitt Visualisierung Michael Wallraff Architekten.
Verticity Chicago, Model photos © Photo Michael Wallraff Architekten
MAK exhibition, Vienna, 2011. MICHAEL WALLRAFF. looking up. vertical public space MAK Gallery © Wolfgang Woessner/MAK.
MAK exhibition, Vienna, 2011. MICHAEL WALLRAFF. looking up. vertical public space MAK Gallery © Wolfgang Woessner/MAK.
MAK exhibition, Vienna, 2011. MICHAEL WALLRAFF. looking up. vertical public space MAK Gallery © Wolfgang Woessner/MAK.
MAK exhibition, Vienna, 2011. MICHAEL WALLRAFF. looking up. vertical public space MAK Gallery © Wolfgang Woessner/MAK.
Venue: MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art / Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria.
Curator Bärbel Vischer.
Michael Wallraff has been invited to present his conceptual mode of working in a solo exhibition. In the context of present-day technological developments such as those currently transforming the fields of communication, mobility and ecology, Wallraff conceives of the city as a dynamic structure with a great deal of creative potential.
The exhibition presents Wallraff’s designs and plans for new works of architecture as well as interventions in historical building stock and three-dimensional experimental forms.
The lion’s share of the works to be displayed were created as part of the project Der Vertikale öffentliche Raum [The Vertical Public Space], for which Wallraff was awarded a grant by departure, the creative agency of the City of Vienna, in 2008.
1999 Wallraff took part in the MAK Schindler Scholarship Program in Los Angeles, in 2004 he founded the Viennese Architect’s Office.
In 2011 the exhibitions in the MAK Gallery present current positions in architecture which in visionary developments deal with procedural structures and systems.
