![]() Gunther Domenig, the Stone House. |
“Structures that Fit My Nature” presents drawings, models, and documentation of two significant projects by Austrian architect Gunther Domenig: the Steinhaus (Stone House), which is the architect’s own home; and a more problematic structure, the Nuremberg Documentation Center, designed as a historical archive to transform our memory of the Albert Speer’s Nazi coliseum into a war memorial (a difficult task given the horror of that regime).
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Domenig’s Stone House has the reflective surfaces, asymmetry and peaking roof lines of Frank Gehry mixed with the clean expressionism of Frank Israel’s structures. It is a highly individual and inventive language of personal expression and space enclosure. The architecture is itself a marvel of lines, angles, surface and engineering, and the documentary photographs of the projects by Gerald Zugmann and Joachim Brohm are dramatic aesthetic statements in their own right (MAK Center, West Hollywood). |
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