In conjunction with opening of the Austrian Pavilion on Friday
Hernan Diaz Alonso/Xefirotarch, Thom Mayne, Peter Noever,Patrik Schumacher, Wolf D. Prix; moderator: Eric Owen Moss Eric Owen Moss, the first American architect to serve as commissioner for the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, will moderate a panel on the pavilion concept to inaugurate its opening.
The exhibition "
Austria Under Construction: Austrian Architecture around the World; International Architecture in Austria" focuses on Austria's architectural exports and imports. Included is both architectural and ideational documentation of Austrian architectural activity—its breaks and upheavals—and the work of over 50 architects, among them, past and present SCI-Arc faculty and alumni: Suzanne Zottl, Hitoshi Abe, Thom Mayne, Herwig Baumgartner, Ming Fung, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Wolf Prix, Elena Manferdini, and Alexis Rochas. "Austria Under Construction" is on view through November 21, 2010.