Austria West
Subtitle: Tirol, Vorarlberg : neue Architektur = new architecture
By: Liesbeth Waechter-Böhm (ed.) ; with an essay by Otto Kapfinger.
Contributors: Waechter-Böhm, Liesbeth, 1946-; Kapfinger, Otto.
Publisher: Birkhäuser Verlag
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Architecture -- Austria -- Tyrol -- History -- 20th century.; Architecture -- Austria -- Vorarlberg -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "Rhine Valley versus Inn Valley"--In his profound introductory essay Otto Kapfinger uses this heading to outline developments in Austria's two western federal provinces. But he also emphasises their common feature: "building in alpine areas". The book introduces a spectrum of important recent buildings, separated into different categories and including works by the emerging younger generation. It is shown clearly that architecture in Vorarlberg has detached itself from its "Baukunstler" past and also from its regional roots. The new focal points are energy-conscious, ecological and industrial building. In Tyrol this development took place at a somewhat later date and was also less regionally defined.

Today the scene makes a lively, varied and energetic impression - confirmed by many exemplary buildings."--Jacket.