Get Off of My Cloud : Wolf D. Prix, Coop Himmelb(l)au : texts, 1968-2005. / txt Wolf D. Prix, Coop Himmelblau, texts : edited by Martina Kandeler-Fritsch and Thomas Kramer. - 525 p. ill. ; 23 cm. book

Contents:
14 Foreword Jeffrey Kipnis --
20 Foreword Christian Reder --
Programmatic --
24 Coop Himmelblau Is Not a Color 1968 --
25 Our Architecture Has no Physical Ground Plan 1968 --
26 In the beginning Was the City 1968 --
27 It Is Not That We Should Change 1970 --
28 The Rift in the Mind of the City Dweller 1977 --
35 Beautiful Living Makes Frozen Lives 1978 --
36 The Future of the Splendid Desolation 1978 --
38 City of Nature 1978 --
39 The Poetry of Desolation 1979 --
40 The Tougher Architecture 1980 --
45 And This Is How It Works 1982 --
46 Architecture Must Blaze 1980 --
47 Sections through Open Architecture 1980 --
48 The Drawing is important to Us 1982 --
49 The Open System 1982 --
50 Architecture Is Not Accommodating 1983 --
55 Open Architecture 1983 --
56 The Dissipation of Our Bodies in the city 1988 --
58 On the Edge 1990 --
59 For Us, a City is 1990 --
60 Our Architecture Has Four Cities and Seven Lives 1990 --
64 Desert Storm 1993 --
69 The End of Space Is the Beginning of Architecture 1993 --
71 Planning concepts 1993 --
72 The Architecture of Clouds 1995 --
Selected Project Texts --
76 Villa Rosa 1968 --
78 Villa Rosa II 1968 --
80 The Cloud 1968 --
82 Feedback Vibration City 1971 --
84 Reiss Bar 1977 --
86 Hot Flat 1978 --
88 Roter Engel (Red Angel) 1980 --
90 The Temperature Wing 1982 --
92 Merz School 1981 --
94 Architecture IS Now 1982 --
96 Open House 1983 --
100 Youth Center Berlin 1983 --
102 Skyline 1985 --
104 Form-mutation, 1986 --
106 The Heart of a city, Melun Senart 1983 --
108 Like Sugar. White on White 1994 --
Lectures --
112 Architecture Must blaze 1984 --
150 The City as a Field of Clouds 1996 --
166 More and less 1998 --
184 Architecture at the End of the Twentieth Century 1998 --
202 “Let Be Realist. Let’s do the Impossible” 1999 --
220 Space for a change 2000 --
Interviews --
228 The Desire for Oblique Walls 1986 --
232 We Were Young and Very Bored 1988 --
250 Body-Space-Time 1996 --
262 Understanding Deconstructivism as a Strategy 1996 --
266 Resisting Accommodation 1996 --
276 Paradise Cage 1996 --
280 The Psyche of Architecture 2000 --
290 Against the Visual Devastation of Our Environment 2001 --
300 The Box as a Burial Site for Art: We Think That’s Boring 2001 --
308 Freeing Architecture from Material Constraints 2001--
314 The City in the Age of Globalization 2002 --
326 Baroque Himmelb(I)au 2002 --
330 We Build Spaces That Are as Fast as Cars 2002 --
338 The Rigor of Art and the Foolish Pleasure Principe 2002 --
366 An Architect Who Doesn’t Want to Improve the World Will Always Be a House Builder 2002 --
376 On the Added Value of Form 2003 --
380 Vienna Is Happy When We Build Abroad 2005 --
O Friends and Foes --
386 Art’s Great Wall of China- Christo 1976 --
391 The Monastery- Gunther Domenig 1988 --
392 Ed.Z., Structural Designer-Wolfdietrich Ziesel 1989 --
393 The Prince-Wilhelm Holzbauer 1990 --
394 EM=C ²-Eric Owen Moss 1991 --
395 About the Reiss Michael Satke 1991 --
396 Otto Wagner, a Viennese Architect 1991 --
398 On Frank O. Gehry 1995 --
399 Rolling the Sky The Rolling Stones 1995 --
405 Promote and Suppress: Architect, Kingmaker, and Vampire-Philip Johnson 1996 --
409 Congratulations to Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky o Her One Hundredth Birthday 1997 --
410 For Gerald Zugmann 1997 --
411 Congratulations to Alvar Aalto on His One Hundredth Birthday 1998 --
412 S1-2, BKK-2, and the poor Boys’ Brain Surfer 1998 --
414 The Proud King of Samarkand Zvi Hecker 1999 --
416 Poise Is Costly; Honor Requires Patience Roland Rainer 2000 --
418 A Flexible Modernity Enrique Norten 2000 --
420 If That Isn’t Effectiveness! Gunther Feuerstein 2000 --
423 Hitoshi Abe, Wanderer in His Spaces 2000 --
425 Rapid Eye Movement Schindler R.M Schindler 2001 --
426 The American Friend Steven Holl 2002 --
428 Wolf 4 Zaha Zaha Hadid 2003 --
430 Frog King and Butterfly Prince Greg Lynn 2003 --
433 Visionary in Exile Raimund Abraham 2005 --
438 Call Him Thom Mayne 2005 --
And Other Texts --
442 A Feeling in Glass 1972 --
443 A Museum is Art 1990 --
445 On Urbanized Landscapes 1993 --
453 Ideas Always Have Something Dictatorial About Them 1995 --
455 Against Rowing in tee Architecture Galley 1995 --
463 Cultural Buildings Are Mirror Images 1996 --
464 Gasometer in Vienna-Simmering 1996 --
468 Power to Fantasy 1997 --
470 Vienna is Not Bilbao 1997 --
477 The opposite of Fortresses 1999 --
478 The Future of Architecture I 1999 --
479 The Future of Architecture II 2000 --
482 Dynamite on Stage 2000 --
486 Art is Research 2000 --
488 Acceptance Speech for the GroBer Osterreichischer Staatspreis, Coop Himmelb(I)au 2000 --
495 MAK o Muerte 2001 --
496 Architecture Is a Dog 2001 --
497 The University Space is Free Space 2002 --
499 Opening Speech of the steirischer herbst 2002 --
509 Norms are Regulative Borders 2003 --
510 Architecture as a Comprehensive Thought Process 2003 --
512 96 ° 13W/ 16 ° 33N 2005 --
520 Editor’s Note/ Text Index --
524 Picture Index --


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