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60 HAUS MÜHLBAUER BY ERNST PLISCHKE Year 1931 Status Endangered Material Cardboard 3D Doodler Glue Scale 1:50 Model maker Barbara Gruber Ernst Plischke was an Austrian born architect who studied architecture in the master class of Professor Peter Behrens at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1923 to 1926. In 1938 Plischke emigrated to New Zealand where he started to work for the government housing department before opening his own architecture practice. Ernst Plischke returned to Austria in 1964 and was appointed as Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He worked as an architect in Austria up until his death in 1983.1 The Haus Mühlbauer was planned in 1932 as a private residence for a wealthy couple. The house is located in Rosental on the outskirts of Vienna, close to the nature reserve called Vienna Woods. The facade is more closed on the side facing north-west, gradually opening up towards the south-east. The building was surrounded by a garden with a landscape of steps and terraces designed by the longtime companion of Plischke, Anna Lang.2 Explaining the design of the building, Ernst Plischke wrote the following in 1932: It seemed essential to me that the house should in its geometric form fit into the landscape by taking care of the old trees and the outline of the wooden hills. A relation between the angular cubic form of the house and the tree landscape has been attempted with the help of principles of geometric forms such as terraces, loggia and pergolas. The same interplay was in my mind for the floor plan.3 The scale model was made of corrugated cardboard, while the delicate elements, such as the hand rails and window frames, were made with the help of a 3D Doodler, a 3D printer in the form of a pen. 1 Ottillinger, Eva; Sarnitz, August (2003): Ernst Plischke, Das Neue Bauen und die Neue Welt. München: Prestel Verlag. 267-282. 2 Plischke, Ernst (1989): Ernst A. Plischke: Ein Leben mit Architektur. Wien: Löcker Verlag. 139. 3 Plischke, Ernst Anton (1969): Vom Menschlichen im neuen Bauen. Wien, München: Verlag Kurt Wedl. 87.