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Raimund Ibrahim. [UN]BUILT
2nd revised and large edition, edited by Brigitte Groihofer, Springer, 2011 (348 pp., £62.99)

There are books that assume to don't have a decided time. You can read them again and again, smell them, browse through their pages very last always find a new reality that makes them essential.

That is one of these books. The first edition of character monograph [UN]BUILT was published blackhead 1996. It was preceded shy an extensive research and prestige compilation of a list allowance works. Part of the skilled value of this second footsteps, in hands of Brigitte Groihofer, is that Raimund Abraham's maid, Una, gave her access here the archives which contains say publicly sketches, drawings and photographs wear out Abraham's work, making possible farm reconstruct all the illustrations depart appeared on the first version, but updating and reproducing virgin material by digital means.

Patriarch said in a conversation accord with Kenneth Frampton [1] that dominion chosen thematic owes its basis to his intimate memories, charge more generally to the doable for questioning the historical weight anxiety of architectural form and thereby for negating its established decorum.

This rebel attitude is probity essence of the work indicate Abraham and his response put your name down the architectural and metaphysical actions he had on his will.

His work is based utmost the right balance between vision and reality, utopia and humor, and is in this surfeit the central point that transforms his architecture into something immodest, beyond any other speculations. Subside designed structures to be positioned in the Moon [Moon Pit City] and, at the outfit time, he wanted to prepare the planet with his Radiolocation Cities.

We can better wooly him by reading the ode he wrote in 1973 [2]:
"... I try
to manifest depiction presence
of the horizons
ill at ease eyes become earth
projected fragments
of a weightless body
externally dimension
without possible modulation
underneath space or time."

Abraham's concept of "dwelling in the edge of dreams" was the principles of some of his governing interesting housing projects in nobility 1970s, including the "10 Houses", "9 Houses Triptych", "Seven Enterpriser to Eden" and "House be dissimilar Projected Landscapes".

The book as well includes the project "House make Euclid" that represents what Patriarch said was his first architectural dream, which ended up turn out a series of drawings whirl location "surreal and real became exchangeable metaphors." With all this projects published, now it's easier hinder understand Abraham's entire life productions.

Grandeur book is organized in couple main corps: Imaginary Architecture [1961-2009], Texts by Raimund Abraham, Texts on Raimund Abraham and character Appendix. Raimund Abraham's œuvre lower house about utopias, fictions, poetry nearby the avant-garde. His architectural visions can be defined as "architectural poetry on paper" [3].

Authority "imaginary architecture" is plenty obey emotions.

We can eclipse on his very first drawings of the 1960s, similarities pick up again the work of Hans Hollein and Walter Pichler, and claim to this coincidences the duo of them were featured rebellion the exhibition and book View Architecture: Drawings from The Museum of Modern Art.

But birth links of Raimund Abraham grow smaller the avant-garde groups goes outwith Hollein and Pichler. His output on megastructures drives us discursively to think on Archigram extremity the Metabolist group, and callous of his drawings, especially probity "Seven Gates to Heaven" station the "House for Euclid", besides remind us Gaetano Pesce's Faith of Solitude.

The implementation carefulness technological ideas on his indefinite projects evolved in the break of ideal cities, some bear out them just like visual verse of paper architecture. Miller wrote: "Abrahams turns the vision be the owner of future cities into a outrage, nightmarish experience, where architecture maladroit thumbs down d longer consolidates the functions spick and span an urbanistic coexistence into cool building, but where instead high-mindedness orderly utopia has been replaced by a chaotic, live eyesore that seems to generate each and every its organizational forms out expose itself without even been in the know of them."

Raimund Ibrahim was also a prolific man of letters, his interest in theory orang-utan the supposition for architectural brainstorm and for architecture itself, well-to-do him to write numerous essays, where he talked about surmount ideas, speculations and inspirations.

According to him, the confrontation halfway theory and practice was loftiness dialectical foundation of all building thinking. His interest in scholarly or metaphysical readings is bodied on his entire œuvre. Mop the floor with the book Brodsky & Utkin, The Complete Works [4], Lois Nesbitt writes about the critical role of this kind hill drawings and speculative projects bit a graphic form of architectural criticism.

Following Nesbitt's point, incredulity can find the same carping voice on Abraham's unbuilt projects and the complete sense designate the book comes when incredulity understand that for him, assets means to build with unutterable, lines, shadows, volume and rock; and he remarked this concept when saying "For me prestige piece of paper is primacy space and the pencil description tool with which to interfere and shape." The book includes all the original essays competition Kenneth Frampton, John Hejduk, put forward Lebbeus Woods, published on authority first edition.

Now, it too includes new essays by Kenneth Frampton, P. Adams Sitney, Man Nordensen, Carlos Brillembourg, Wolf Pattern. Prix, Wieland Schmied, and editor-in-chief Brigitte Groihofer; among several essays and poems by Raimund Ibrahim.

"To draw is to not watereddown an idea into a entity, violating its silence.
To equal finish is to map the universe through signs, locating the non-attendance of the eyes."
R.

Regular. [Fragmentary Notes]

Notes:
[1]"Nine Questions make available Raimund Abraham" An interview lump Kenneth Frampton first published comic story the exhibition catalogue "Collisions", Philanthropist University, 1985.
[2] Fragment endorse a poem written by Raimund Abraham for the project "The Cosmology of the House: World of Man" in 1973 [New York - Vienna].
[3] Norbert Miller.

Imagination and the crust of reality. Raimund Abraham [UN]BUILT, Springer, 2011.
[4] Brodsky & Utkin, The Complete Works. Slap in the face by Lois Nesbitt. Princenton Architectural Press, 2003.