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Terms and conditions applyErwin Hauer: Continua: Architectural Screens and Walls
Erwin Hauer
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Format: Book
Pages: 108
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Date Published: May 2004
Stock Code: 35905
Binding: Hardback
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If we rarely think of walls as works of mesmerizing beauty, Erwin Hauer can hardly be blamed. Erwin Hauer: Continua resurrects the extraordinary but little-known work of this Austrian-born sculptor, whose designs of perforated and modular structures are symphonies of measured elegance.
Built in Austria, Canada, Italy, Mexico, Holland, the Antilles, Venezuela, and the U.S., Hauer's architectural walls and screens caused a stir when they were erected in the 1950s, but have since been lost in time. This book gathers over 120 black & white photographs of these works, many of them now destroyed or no longer accessible.
Hauer has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and his sculptures can be found in many public and corporate collections, including those of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Benson Sculpture Park in Loveland, CO, and the Museum of the National Academy of Design.
Erwin Hauer continues his work as a sculptor and is Professor Emeritus at Yale University School of Art.
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Review by Samuel Carpenter, Book Buyer, RIBA Bookshops
'In this exquisite monograph, Austrian sculptor Erwin Hauer presents his 1950s explorations of infinity, replication and the saddle surface, which as he puts it “contains the seed of infinite expansion.” His work progresses from pure, austere art pieces to industrially produced, structurally innovative walls of great beauty and utility. Their captivating light-diffusing properties are lovingly captured in the quality photographs, wh ile Hauer scrupulously documents both the artistic and technical processes informing his work with a scientist’s precision. Genius.'
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