The exhibition re-evaluates Hollein’s work from a contemporary perspective and its influence on architecture today.
The exhibition explores the work of Hollein re-evaluating his work and its relevance to the current discourse through a dialogue with a younger generation of architects.
During his lifetime Hans Hollein was an assiduous curator of his own work, and yet his persona, as a self-proclaimed 1960s avant-gardist and Austria’s only Pritzker Prize winner, often overshadowed any objective assessment of his architecture. Now, nearly a decade after his death in 2014, it is possible to look at his work with the necessary distance. Now, nearly a decade after his death in 2014, it is possible to look at his work with the necessary distance. Hollein Calling opens up new and often surprising perspectives on ostensibly familiar projects, revealing the multifaceted nature of Hollein’s oeuvre through a selection of work spanning from the small scale of exhibition installations and the Retti and Schullin stores to school buildings and museums.
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