Architect: Walter Pichler

AH: BeL on Walter Pichler

AH: BeL on Walter Pichler

The selected drawing – a light-hearted but somewhat nervous sketch bearing the title Sketch for Underground City – belongs to an early body of work by Walter Pichler. Working on abstract, hypothetical cities and buildings, Pichler questions the relationship of oppositional systems: positive and negative space, the designed and found object, movement… Read More

Mark Dorrian

Mark Dorrian

Mark Dorrian

When we talk about the sketchbook what do we mean? Its complexity is reflected in the difficulty we experience – in many examples, at any rate – in straightforwardly attaching a name to it, for there are times it might seem to be equally a notebook, a journal, a diary,… Read More

Walter Pichler

Walter Pichler

Walter Pichler

Architecture … is a brutal matter … it crushes those who cannot stand it. Quoted from a manuscript statement, c. 1962