TY - BOOK AU - Kandeler-Fritsch,Martina AU - Kramer,Thomas TI - Get Off of My Cloud: Wolf D. Prix, Coop Himmelb(l)au : texts, 1968-2005. SN - 3775716718 (pbk.) AV - NA1008.5 C65 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Germany PB - Hatje Cantz KW - Prix, Wolf D. KW - Coop Himmelblau KW - Local KW - Architecture, Modern KW - 20th century KW - 21st century N1 - 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 -- ER -