Kowalski, Szyszkowitz, Rosenberg, Geidorf, Graz, Austria, 1972-1974
OfHouses guest curated by Andreas Lechner: “This is the second built work by the husband and wife team Szyskowitz-Kowalski. The “House over Graz” feels almost restrained in comparison to their later works. The expressive gestures, formal ardor and excessive detailing will make them the central protagonists of what in the 1980s will become the considerably influential „Graz School“ – a decidedly a-historic style of postmodernism. I find “House over Graz“ very sympathetic in it’s almost laid back mimetic resemblance to the topography of the beautiful site. What Szyskowitz-Kowalski will be drawing and building in the next two decades – pre-digitally – is incredible. (Incredible not only from our crisis, scarcity and favela chic perspectives but also as the digital exuberances in architecture have so proven to be mostly serious crap).”
