Party
Friedrich Achleitner. Architecture and Poetry
A portrait and a party
Friedrich Achleitner. Architecture and Poetry
© Margherita Spiluttini
Panel discussion + party
As a member of the Wiener Gruppe, in the 1950s Friedrich Achleitner was among the legendary circle of young poets who broke with the conventions of descriptive literature with concrete texts (vernacular poetry, montage texts and constellations). “This conceit committed me for life”, admitted Achleitner later, “at least in the architecture sector I am pursuing a descriptive trade”. As he has also achieved and continues to achieve something unique in this sector — from the ‘Bausünden’ (Building Sins) to the several volumed ‘Österreichische Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert’ (Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century), we want to make an exception and show both sides of the author in combination: that of the poet and that of the architecture expert and writer, not least in order to congratulate the complete Achleitner on his 80th birthday.
7pm Dietmar Steiner, director of the Az W, welcome address
Ferdinand Schmatz, writer, and Herbert J. Wimmer, writer:
‘An Entertaining Diversion on Friedrich Achleitner’
Panel discussion ‘On the Impossibility of Writing About Architecture’
Friedrich Achleitner, writer and commentator on architecture
Winfried Nerdinger, director of the Architekturmuseum der TU München
Vladimír Šlapeta, architect
Martin Steinmann, architect
Moderated by Franziska Leeb, commentator on architecture
20:30 laudatory speech by Klaus Kastberger, literary scholar
Followed by a party and music
An event organised by the Architekturzentrum Wien in collaboration with the Alte Schmiede Literarisches Quartier and Paul Zsolnay Verlag.