“A little world in which the big one holds its tryouts”, is how guest curator and professor Bart Lootsma describes the development of Austrian avant-garde movements in the 20th century. In this lecture series, Lootsma places the so-called ‘Radical Austria’ of the 1960s in the context of...
Welcome to the Deep Dive of the exhibition Radical Austria: Everything is Architecture. Here you will discover the mind-expanding, groundbreaking and socially critical works of the Austrian avant-garde in the 1960s and 1970s. This group of Austrian designers was not limited by traditional design disciplines and made buildings, environments, objects, fashion, performances, furniture and even experiences.
Radical Austria – Everything is Architecture is an exhibition on this recent history, with works that are more current and relevant than ever. The Austrian designers speculated and experimented early on with cybernetics, space travel, drugs, pop culture, media, gender, feminism and environmental issues.
The exhibition was on view in the museum from June 5 to October 3 2021.
Curator and architectural historian Bart Lootsma shows you around the exhibition. He reflects on several key works by important Austrian designers active in the 60s and 70s.
Parallel to the exhibition, architecturaltheory.eu presents a selection of films on and by the protagonists of the exhibition, made for and broadcasted by the ORF. The films are as radical as the...
From psychedelic inflatable buildings to shocking performances, from cultic cities to cybernetic fashion. Bart Lootsma and Jeroen Junte will guide you through the exhibition and talk to experts from this period in design history.