The wonderful graphic collection of Vienna’s renowned museum, the Albertina, ranks as one of the most important worldwide. It covers more than 50,000 hand drawn drawings and 900,000 printed graphics ranging from the late gothic period to the contemporary, including works by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raffael, Albrecht Dürer, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Manet and Picasso. 

The Albertina’s architectural collection is no less important, including more than 35,000 works by acclaimed architects from the 16th century up to the present day. The exhibition at the Museum for Architectural Drawing offers an insight into this magnificent collection through a broad spectrum of hand drawn architecture: sketches, drafts, vedute and projects of renowned artists such as Antonio Pisanello, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, Hubert Robert, Adolf Loos, Egon Schiele, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hans Hollein and Zaha Hadid.

Tchoban Foundation Museum for Architectural Drawing

In her work Annett Zinsmeister concentrates on the intersections between art and architecture, combining theoretical research with art. She creates grand installations—conceptual spaces—and works with various media such as photographies, drawings, films, and texts. Because of their immersive qualities her works have a special impact on the spectator, illuminating human perception and demystifying everyday habits. Zinsmeister poses questions about communication, social interactions and transformations of the urban space. One of her fundamental principles and a recurring element in her œuvre is the utilization and creation of modular systems and structures.

Her installation Virtual Interior MoMA white is currently also on display at MoMA NYC in the exhibition „Endless House. Intersections of Art and Architecture“.

Exhibition opening: 10 December 2015 | 7:30 pm

With an introduction in the exhibition by the curators Klaus Dömer, Prof. Hans Drexler, and Prof. Joachim Schultz-Granberg

The exhibition is based on the publication Affordable Living - Housing for everyone. Using exemplary projects from international architects such as Gaupenraub +/-, Lacaton & Vassal or Urbanus, it shows the problems, potentials, and dependencies that different approaches bring with them and how these impact our reality of living.

The book will be available for sale during the opening hours of AIT – ArchitekturSalon.

Registration form AIT Hamburg

Cairo: the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa. Its downtown core, the brainchild of Khedive Ismail, is a unique, living treasure house of nineteenth and twentieth century residential and commercial architecture. Dr Vittoria Capresi and Barbara Pampe, editors of Discovering Downtown Cairo: Architecture and Stories, have assembled an amazing book which introduces us to 38 historic buildings in Downtown Cairo. Until recently, Greeks were to be found in almost every village, town and city in Egypt. Like the other minority communities, they were most numerous in the large urban centres. In the mid-twentieth century, the Greek community of Cairo numbered in the tens of thousands. Most Cairene Greeks lived downtown, close to their shops, offices, restaurants, schools, churches and clubs. Some Greek-Egyptians still live and work there today, as Discovering Downtown Cairo makes clear.

Program:

Greeks and Others in Downtown Cairo from Khedive Ismail to the Arab Spring 

Dr George Vassiadis, Lecturer in Modern Greek History, Royal Holloway, University of London 

The Making of “Discovering Downtown Cairo: Architecture …and Stories” 

Dr Vittoria Capresi, Berlin, and Barbara Pampe, Bonn, baladilab 

“A Piece of Europe”? Reflections on Khedival Cairo after the Opening of the New Suez Canal 

Dr Alexander Kazamias, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Coventry University 

Refreshments will be served. This event is free of charge, but places are limited. 

Please reserve your seat by sending an email to george.vassiadis@rhul.ac.uk by Monday, 26 October 2015.