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VERTICAL CITY
BY
FRIEDRICH ST. FLORIAN
Year
1967
Status
Project
Material
Expanded Polystyrene
Scale
1:2000
Model maker
Armin Karner
Armin Baumgartner Friedrich St. Florian was born in 1932 in Graz. He studied architecture
at the Technical University of Graz and at the Columbia University.
Friedrich St. Florian moved to the US in 1961. From 1963 onwards,
he worked as a lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design, and was
appointed dean of Architectural Studies from 1978 to 1988. In 1974
Friedrich St. Florian established his own architecture practice in the US.1
The Elements of the Vertical City was a visionary, urban proposal
that Friedrich St. Florian worked on from 1965 to 1967. In several
axonometric projections, Friedrich St. Florian envisioned a tower of
three hundred stories that could house a whole city. The tower reached
far above the clouds so as to grant more days of sunlight. The top part of
the building was where the hospitals, schools and infrastructure for the
elderly were to be located. The transportation, communication and energy
systems were to be based in the centre of the building.2 The axonometric
projections by Friedrich St. Florian were used as a template for the
expanded polystyrene scale model.
1 Friedrich St. Florian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_St._Florian. 16.8.2018.
2 The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Ed.) (2002): The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the
Howard Gilman Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. 68-69.
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Demolished Modified Endangered
Modelling Austrian Architecture Of The 20th Century
- Titel
- Demolished Modified Endangered
- Untertitel
- Modelling Austrian Architecture Of The 20th Century
- Autoren
- Petra Peterson
- Wolfgang List
- Verlag
- Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz
- Ort
- Graz
- Datum
- 2018
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-85125-634-5
- Abmessungen
- 23.0 x 28.0 cm
- Seiten
- 200
- Schlagwörter
- TU Graz, Architektur, Architecture
- Kategorie
- International