Founded as the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry in 1863, the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna (MAK) with similar aims to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the MAK collection reflects the importance of modern and contemporary design in Vienna, including crafts from the Wiener Werkstätte founded in 1903 by […]
Vienna is famous for its historic architecture, with notable buildings by the Secessonist architects Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Otto Wagner and others. There are other surprising buildings such as the gasometers in Simmering and surprisingly, in the leafy Arenbergpark, two immense concrete second world war Flak towers rising above the trees, among the largest […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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