SERIES OF LECTURES at the KIESLER FOUNDATION VIENNA

FROM THE LOUVRE TO YOU: FREDERICK KIESLER´S TELEVISED ARCHITECTURE by LAURA McGUIRE

DATE: May 25, 2010

TIME: 7 p.m. 

Laura McGuire will present in her lecture Kiesler's revealing vision of the 1920s and 1930s to replace architectural surface decoration with broadcast images and shows his designs as an interconnected system of nodes in a worldwide network of human communication.

HEIDULF GERNGROSS CHAMBER CONCERT

DATE: May 11, 2010

TIME: 7 p.m. 

As part of the exhibition Post-suprematist data sheets in the Kiesler Foundation Vienna Heidulf Gerngross will talk about his current design production as well as the collages shown in the Kiesler Foundation but also about his utopistic designs of the 1960s.

FREDERICK KIESLER the endless house/STRUCTURAL DESIGN 3

DATE: May 18, 2010

TIME: 7 p.m. 

A presentation of the Institute of Architecture of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna/ Structural Design, Professor Klaus Bollinger

TONY FRETTON
Buildings and their territories

DATE: Friday, April 23, 2010

TIME: 7 p.m. 

PLACE: University of Technology Vienna, Karlsplatz 13, A-1040 Wien  Kuppelsaal, Stiege 1, 4. Stock

ORGANISED BY: Kiesler Foundation Vienna in cooperation with
University of Technology Vienna, Faculty of Architecture, Department for Concept and Design, Univ.Prof. Arch. DI András Pálffy.

British architect Tony Fretton, well known for his residential buildings and designs of public space and juror of Kiesler Prize Award 2010 will lecture at the Technical University on April 23 and talk about Buildings and their territories.

In 1990 Fretton attracted great interest with his Lisson Gallery in London. Since then he is internationally acclaimed being a designer of “sensitive art spaces using a combination of vernacular and minimalist approaches balancing new and age-old designs“.

Supported by:  

Kiesler Lecture

In 2008 the Kiesler Foundation Vienna has established the Kiesler-Lecture in relation to the renowned Kiesler-Prize and according to the history and actuality of the reception of Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965) and the architect’s extensive heritage. In cooperation with András Pálffy and his Department of Concept and Design at the Vienna University of Technology well known architects and artists are invited to Vienna to present their positions within contemporary architectural praxis and theory to the public.