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164 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.