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Includes the names: Peter Noever, Peter Noever, Ed.

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Works by Peter Noever

Josef Hoffmann Designs (1992) 20 copies
MAK Center: L.A. : Rudolph M. Schindler (1996) — Editor — 10 copies
Schindler by MAK (2005) 9 copies
Hiro Yamagata : earthly paradise (1994) — Author — 2 copies
Verborgene Impressionen : Hidden impressions. (1990) — Zum Thema and Exhibition design — 2 copies
Hans Kupelwieser : Trans-Formation (1994) — Editor and author — 2 copies
Global Lab (2009) — Editor and Contributor — 2 copies

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African seats (1994) — Foreword — 37 copies

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Our notions of contemporary Japan, with its perfect control of the most up-to-date technology and its mysteriously untouched realm of ascetically beautiful ceremonies and traditions, are as contradictory as our first impressions of the selection of works by contemporary artists, photographers and designers presented in "Japan Today."

This selection is based on a radically individual choice and a deliberately western perspective and does not pretend to offer a complete survey or a representative documentation of contemporary Japanese art. The power of the trenchant works chosen and the tension arising from their refusal to be linked to a harmonious whole aim at defining its fundamental creativity which seems to unmask all prejudice through a peculiar mixture of appropriation and opposition, of wish fullfillment and fleetingness.

(Abstract from Peter Noever)
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Centre_A | Nov 27, 2020 |
In the 1990s, in the middle of his 25-year tenure as director of MAK in Vienna, Peter Noever convened a number of conferences that were turned into books published by Prestel. I own a few of those, including Architecture in Transition (1991) and The End of Architecture?, which are populated by some familiar names: Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Thom Mayne, and Eric Owen Moss, among others. Visionary Clients overlaps with those and other architects but from the point of view of the client rather than the architect. The conference and book focus on three particular clients: Frederick Samitaur Smith (former industrial area in Culver City transformed by Eric Owen Moss), Thomas Krens (Frank Gehry's client for the Guggenheim Bilbao), and Rolf Fehlbaum (the head of Vitra, which built an architectural playground near Basel). I like reading about building's from a client's point of view (rare in architectural literature), so I found this the most illuminating of the Noever/Prestel titles -- now at least, though back in school I leaned to the theorizing and Deconstruction of the earlier titles.… (more)
 
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archidose | Oct 12, 2017 |
This book documents the Vienna Architecture Conference, which took place at the MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna in 1992. The participants consisted of architect popular with students (like me) at the time, some of which would become famous to a wider audience by the end of the decade: Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Coop Himmelblau, Carme Pinós, and Lebbeus Woods, whose drawing graces the cover. This was a time when their aggressive Deconstructivist forms were avant-garde reactions to Postmodern architecture; their architecture functioned as political statements for freedom over reactionary stances. This was a time before Coop Himmelblau designed a "brand-experience and car-delivery center" for BMW and Zaha Hadid realized an office building for the same carmaker. The words and images of the participants – assembled in individual statements and a roundtable discussion – hardly foreshadow their embrace of such corporations or the other ways they would change the course of architecture through built work rather than unbuilt projects and conversations. It's the words of Frank Gehry in the book's preface that are the most prescient, at least in hindsight: "I am optimistic that all of you [participants] will get work and make beautiful buildings and will not have to sit around and worry about the end of architecture."… (more)
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archidose | Oct 8, 2017 |
Many of the architects popular in the early 1990s, when I was in undergraduate architecture school, have gone on to great success building more and bigger this century. Think Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, and Coop Himmelb(l)au, among others. Every now and then I wonder about the role of publications in providing outlets for their work and ideas, providing the fuel for their later success. There's the Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition and catalog from MoMA, Andreas Papadakis's AD titles, and some titles by MAK Vienna director Peter Noever. One of the last is this title, which is based on the "Architecture Today" lectures at the MAK in 1991. All the biggies are here: Coop, Hadid, Libeskind, Mayne (with Morphosis partner Michael Rotondi), as well as Peter Eisenman, Jean Nouvel, Michael Sorkin, Bernard Tschumi and Lebbeus Woods. Most out of place among this group is Sorkin, more influential as a critic than an architect at the time. He is, somwhat oddly, omitted from Philip Johnson's epilogue where he comments, albeit briefly, on the rest of the architects (he calls Hadid "the most daring, romantic intellectual of all the group"). With this omission I can't help but recall a Sorkin radio interview where he stated flatly that he didn't like Johnson; I guess the feeling was mutual.… (more)
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