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...standards of most 24-story buildings, the new Austrian Cultural Forum, which opens this week in New York City, occupies a space the size of a pipe cleaner. In a plot just 25 ft. across, the width of the town house it replaces, Austria's state-sponsored cultural outpost holds a library, galleries, offices and a mini-theater, plus an apartment for the Forum's director. But its real miracle is to squeeze more visual cunning and brainy pleasure into a small space than you can find in whole blocks of dreary office cartons--that is to say, most...
Raimund Abraham, the Forum's architect, was born in Lienz in the Austrian Alps but has lived and taught in the U.S. since 1964. No one would describe him as a man who compromises. To protest the coalition government at home that includes the far-right Freedom Party of Jorg Haider, he recently renounced his Austrian citizenship. At 68, he's one of those architects better known for theories and drawings than completed projects. The one-volume compilation of his works is called [Un]Built...
That started to change 10 years ago, when he won the Forum commission in a jury competition among 226 Austrian architects. Four years later, the Austrian Parliament nearly balked at completing the job, partly because of concerns that Abraham's design was too challenging for an official building. They had a point. The design is severe and saw-toothed, with nothing Sound of Music about it, unless the music you have in mind is Schoenberg. It harks back instead to the angular daring of Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner, the great figures of Viennese modernism, and even further...
Still, community support for the mural crew has grown over the years. Parents are especially receptive to the chance for their children’s work to be given a public forum. “My mother loves it that I’m here,” Guillery said. “She’s always bragging about...
...means of promoting entrenched views rather than as an opportunity to be truly open to the other side’s position. “We are looking to sharpen our own argument,” said Gowda. “If you are in an open philosophical forum, people would have to arrive without assumptions and, with reasoned debate, would arrive at some truth. Our discussion is not truth-seeking because we come to it with preconceptions about what faith means or doesn’t mean...