ALPINE TOUR

摘要

For a country smaller than Maine, and with just two-thirds of that state's population, Austria—shaped like an elongated wiener schnitzel stretching east to west—has more than its fair share of remarkable architects. Needless to say, Vienna, located at the far eastern edge of the country (so far east, in fact, that it's closer to Bombay than to New York), has tended to steal the show. No wonder: It's a tough act to follow, with works by early twentieth-century architects Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann, and Adolf Loos; and more recently, Adolf Krischanitz, Hans Hollein, and Wolf Prix. Emerging firms making waves these days include Alles Wird Gut, Noncon:form, and Silja Tillner, to name only a few.