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Based on a collaborative research effort and accompanying exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Big! Bad? Modern compiles contemporary assessments of four buildings from the controversial postwar modernist period between 1950 and 1980: the Vienna General Hospital, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation studio, the Vienna University of Economics, and the Wohnpark Alt-Erlaa residential estate. Architecture from this period remains controversial to this day, its quality and significance the subject of frequent debate. Contributions to Big! Bad? Modern assess the selected buildings’ current state and use, as well as their aesthetic and historic appeal and history of public acceptance. Alongside these assessments are proposals for how the existing structures might be changed, from small alterations to radical redesigns. With more than three-hundred illustrations, including many in color, the book also contains a preface by renowned architect Nasrine Seraji and essays by Hermann Czech, Françoise Fromont, Harry Glück, Sabine Kraft, and Michael Zinganel.

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Stefan Gruber is an architect and pricipal of the Vienna-based firm STUDIOGRUBER. He is also a Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Antje Lehn teaches in the departments of architecture (IKA) and art education (IKL) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Lisa Schmidt-Colinet is an architect and co-founder of Vienna-based schmidt-colinet.schmoeger architects. She is also a senior scientist and deputy head of institute at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna's department of architecture (IKA). Angelika Schnell is a Professor of History and Theory of Architecture and of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She has been editor of ARCH+ magazine for many years and has also taught at various universities in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.

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