A Museum for Werkbundsiedlung in Vienna

Docomomo Austria would like to ask all Docomomo WPs for support in creating an appropriate on-site museum for the Viennese WERKBUNDSIEDLUNG
similarly to that of Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart, Germany.

Please sign the online petition http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/werkbundsiedlung/
For further information see the Attachment or www.docomomo.com!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/werkbundsiedlung/





Werkbundsiedlung Vienna
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35144812@N07/4225395638/
Vienna’s Werkbundsiedlung, a workers’ association housing complex, is one of the few Werkbund ensembles from the 1920s and 1930s that remains intact. Thirty-one renowned architects, including Josef Hoffmann and Alfred Loos, worked under the direction of Josef Frank and constructed the modernist architectural complex in 1932. Thirty houses remain, ranging from one to three stories, and sit on a triangular plot of land in the periphery of Vienna. The houses exemplify the architects’ modernist philosophy combined with the Viennese estate house style. They created a comfortable and suitable living space with minimal financial expenditure. Although the different types of houses were made uniform through the similar treatment of facades, fencing and roofs, the architects personalized each house through the creative use of colors.
the true Viennese form of Modernism is exhibited in the Vienna Werkbundsiedlung. The individual houses by Loos, Rietveld, Hoffmann, Plischke, Neutra et al were intended as residential models, not technological or functional manifestos. Josef Frank was the initiator of this housing estate. A scholar of Loos, he wanted to demonstrate a new, modern living culture in small houses using economical means. However the Werkbundsiedlung development, completed in 1934, came late, and Austro-Fascism, the Austrian corporative state, put an end to the Modernist movement in Vienna. Josef Frank emigrated to Sweden, establishing his globally successful “Scandinavian furniture style”.
What had begun in 1934 was over by 1938. Viennese Modernism was forced to emigrate. A whole generation of talented architects and open-minded developers were driven out, and their dwellings, houses and land confiscated. Hitler hated Vienna, and so the Nazi period contributed very little in terms of construction activity. However, six flak towers still leave their mark on the urban skyline as “memorials”.
Today, a majority of the houses are owned by the city of Vienna, and are treated as public housing. The residents are largely unaware of the architectural significance of their surroundings. Repairs and routine maintenance of the buildings are lacking. A participatory planning process that includes the city of Vienna, the private residents, and local and international stakeholders, is sought to ensure the preservation and sustainability of the estate.

http://www.vitruvio.ch/arc/contemporary/1880-1945/werkbundsiedlung.php
Construction: 1932
Architects: Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, Heinrich Kulka, André Lurçat, Ernst A. Plischke, Hugo Häring, Anton Brenner, Josef Frank, J Wenzel, R.Bauer, W. Sobotka, O. Wlach, J. Jirasek, Oswald Haerdtl, Emst Lichtblau, Hugo Gorge, J. Groag, Richard Neutra, G. Schütte-Lihotzky, H. Vetter, A. Grünberger, Josef F. Dex, Otto Breuer, H. Wagner-Freynsheim, K. A. Bieber u. O. Niederoser, Walter Loos, E. Wachberger, C. Holzmeister, Anton Brenner, Oskar Strnad.





http://eng.archinform.net/projekte/23205.htm
http://www.simplegreenchoices.com/2009/11/03/wmf-2010-watchlist/
http://eng.archinform.net/projekte/5203.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgang-ante/2442833421/
http://eng.archinform.net/projekte/22770.htm
http://eng.archinform.net/projekte/370.htm

Belgrad \\ Momente der Architektur

Архитектурната галерия на застрахователната компания
Viena Insurence Group
http://www.vig.com/en/press/image-database.html
подготвя поредната архитектурна изложба.
Този път тя ще бъде посветена на модерната архитектура на Белград
и ще може да се види от 19.07 до 11.11. 2012 г.























The architectural gallery of
Vienna Insurance Group
http://www.vig.com/en/press/image-database.html
is preparing the next architectural exhibition.
This time it will be devoted to
the Modern architecture of Belgrade.

The Cause of the Modern Movement today

DOCOMOMO International
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docomomo_International
Docomomo International (sometimes written as DoCoMoMo) is a non-profit organisation whose full title is International Working Party for Document and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement.
Its foundation was inspired by the work of ICOMOS, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, established in 1965. The work of Icomos was concerned with the protection and conservation of historical buildings and sites, whereas Docomomo was founded to take up the challenge of the protection and conservation of Modern Architecture and the promotion of Urbanism.
Docomomo International was founded in Eindhoven in 1988 by Dutch architects Hubert-Jan Henket, and Wessel de Jonge. Hubert-Jan Henket chaired Docomomo International with Wessel de Jonge as the secretary until September 2002 when the International Secretariat relocated to Paris, and is presently hosted by the Institut français d'architecture at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine.
Docomomo holds seminars on both thematic and technical issues. Docomomo ISC/T seminars have covered the following themes: The restoration of reinforced concrete structures, curtain-wall facades, windows and glass, wood and the modern movement, colours in modern architecture and stone in modern buildings.
Seminars are often held in key modernist buildings, as for instance at Alvar Aalto’s Vyborg Library (2003 seminar).
Many countries have national DoCoMoMo working parties, as either part of academic establishments or architecture federations

DOCOMOMO International in Paris
http://www.archi.fr/DOCOMOMO/index.htm

About 20 monuments of the Modern architecture and town plannig in Bulgaria have been classified in the DOCOMOMO Registers