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Walter Pichler

Twenty sketches from the archives, ca. 1961-63

Architecture is a brutal matter . It crushes those who cannot stand it, said WalterPichler. Between 1961 and 1963, the sculptor and designer working in collaboration with the architectHans Hollein, and drawing on conversations with Raimund Abraham and Friedrich Achleitner,introduced a radically adventurous new plasticity to architecture, putting forward imaginary

prototypes in which cities might be buried underground as single units or dispersed as continuoussculptural topographies in the landscape whose dwellings might consist of communication cells,emotive caves or watch towers and where sacred spaces would be constructed from the interstices

between colliding monumental forms.

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012), Study for an Underground City. Pen and ink and photo collage on wovepaper, 300 x 350 mm

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012), Study sketch, untitled.Pen and ink on paper, 230 x 300 mm

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012). Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink on wove paper, 210 x 295 mm

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012), Study sketch, untitled. Pencil, pen and ink on wove paper, 280 x 235 mm

Walter Pichler (1936-2012), Study sketch, untitled, 1963. Pen and ink on wove paper, 161 x 169 mm

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012), Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink on wove paper, 279 x 235 mm

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012), Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink on wove paper, 222 x 256 mm

Walter Pichler (1936-2012). Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink on wove paper, 279 x 235 mm

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012). Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink on wove paper, 284 x 215 mm

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012). Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink on wove paper, 287 x 431 mm

As some years later with Superstudio (whose proposals were greatly influenced by Pichersdrawings), these are propositions of studied ambiguity. Questions rather than solutions, they are madeto fall on a deliberately uncertain line between art and architecture, the mechanistic and the

biomorphic, the domineering and the humane, the ironic and the ideal.

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012). Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink and wash on trace, 145 x 250 mm

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012). Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink on wove paper, 210 x 292 mm

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012), Study sketch, untitled. Black and blue ink on paper, 349 x 300 mm

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012). Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink on trace, 227 x 290 mm

Walter Pichler (1936-2012). Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink on trace, 302 x 228

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012). Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink on trace, 216 x 190 mm

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012). Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink on trace, 228 x 302 mm

Walter Pichler (1936-2012). Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink on wove paper, 209 x 298 mm

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Walter Pichler (1936-2012). Study sketch, untitled. Pen and ink on wove paper, 209 x 298 mm

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