1. Raimund Johann Abraham was an Austrian architect.
23 Facts About Raimund Abraham
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Raimund Johann Abraham was born in 1933 in Lienz, East Tyrol, Austria.
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From 1952 to 1958, Raimund Abraham studied at the Graz University of Technology.
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Raimund Abraham was an influential architect in his native Austria and the New York avant-garde.
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Raimund Abraham theorized architecture on a collision course with the needs of humans, yet striving for coexistence, in a constant state of creative tension.
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In 1958, Raimund Abraham collaborated with Friedrich St Florian, placing third in an international competition to design the Pan Arabian University of Saudi Arabia, and in 1959, placing second, for the design of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Cultural Center in Leopoldville.
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Raimund Abraham criticized mainstream architecture's preoccupation with style, its indifference to history, and the rigid definition of Modernism at that time.
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Raimund Abraham went on to influence generations of professional architects through architectural drawings, projects, and teaching.
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In 1973, Raimund Abraham was awarded the commission for Rainbow Plaza in Niagara Falls, New York, which he co-designed with Giuliano Fiorenzoli.
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Raimund Abraham contributed the design for Traviatagasse, in Vienna, with Carl Pruscha.
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In later years, Raimund Abraham designed his own home in Mazunte, Mexico.
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Raimund Abraham designed the Les Halles Redevelopment project for Paris, France, and Interior, and his design for The New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece articulates new ideas about the contextualization of monuments.
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In 2002, Raimund Abraham contributed a poetic artistic response to New York's World Trade Center attack on September 11,2001.
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Raimund Abraham's proposal is a poignant symbol to regain footing while envisioning a new future architecture for the City of New York.
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Raimund Abraham adapted the site for reuse as an artists' residence and exhibition gallery.
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Raimund Abraham's Musikerhaus was completed posthumously, under the supervision of Raimund Abraham's daughter Una, in 2013.
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Raimund Abraham was awarded a Stone Lion, at the 3rd International Architecture Exhibition for "Progetto Venezia," an international competition sponsored by the Venice Biennale, under the directorship of Aldo Rossi.
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Raimund Abraham earned the Grand Prize of Architecture, and Gold Medal of Honor for meritorious service to the Province of Vienna.
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The March 22,2015 premiere of Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham, by film diarist Jonas Mekas, is a cinema verite style documentary of the lift of Raimund Abraham which carries its subject, the visionary architect, into the future.
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Raimund Abraham is known for creating visionary architectural hand-drawings dominated by the elemental and archaic described in a few basic shapes.
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Raimund Abraham's drawn architecture explores human dwellings, the ritual of habitation, and the subjectivity of spatial conditions, especially interiority.
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Raimund Abraham's drawn architecture is symbolic of the mythology for collisions and the potential of architectural expression.
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The work of Raimund Abraham has been exhibited widely at museums and galleries worldwide, including Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Museo Correr, Venice, Italy; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Pinacotheca, Athens, Greece; National Gallery ; Venice Biennale; German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt; Krinzinger Gallery, Innsbruck; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts of Chicago, Illinois; and the Museum of Modern Art and Architectural League of New York.