Remembering the 'incurable formalist', Austrian architect Raimund Abraham, 1933-2010

摘要

Raimund Abraham lived life to the full: pushing architecture towards certain provocative limits; building a few seminal (we might even say 'iconic') buildings; making drawings that were constructions as opposed to mere representations; initiating generations of students in essential qualities of architecture, even as superficial fashion threatened to usurp contemporary culture. Abraham died following a car crash in Los Angeles on 4 March. A few hours earlier he had delivered his final lecture, 'The Profanation of Solitude', at SCI-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture.