WeinArchitektur : vom Keller zum Kult WineArchitecture : the winery boom
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WeinArchitektur : vom Keller zum Kult = WineArchitecture : the winery boom
Hatje Cantz, c2008
3. Aufl
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Wine Architektur
Wein Architecture
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Exhibition catalogue
In German and English
"This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition WeinArchitektur. vom Keller zum Kult, WineArchitecture. the winery boom, Architekturzentrum Wien, 22. September 2005 - 6. Feburary 2006"--Colophon
Includes index
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Since the mid-1980s, Austrian wine production has been explosive--garnering stellar reviews, awards and record export revenues. Contemporary architects have found the country ripe with opportunity for further experimentation in the field of wine architecture, which emerged in Napa Valley in the 1990s and became renowned with the 2001 Pritzker Prize-winning, Herzog and de Meuron-designed Dominus Winery (deemed "a combination of sensorial and intellectual pleasure" by Pritzker judge Jorge Silvetti). This publication presents a selection of nearly 70 projects in Lower Austria, Burgenland and Styria, and discusses how the combination of ground-breaking architecture--like the striking silver fa ade of Steven Holl-designed Loisium winery in Langenlois--and emerging wineries have been changing the face of the Austrian countryside for the past two decades. As Martin Rauchbauer, Deputy Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum, has observed, "The quality of wine architecture in Austria is seen as more than a transitory phenomenon. A new architectural language has developed, which cautiously takes into account traditional forms of building and at the same time presents self-confident interpretations of the requirements of contemporary winemaking."
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