Eastmodern

Eastern modernist architecture of the 60’s and 70’s is moving away from the specialized focus of international architecture debates and becoming a subject of discussion within the broader context of general interest. The excellent photos in the book convey the flair of an era in which planning was obviously the product of a collective vision, more so than is the case today.

The photographic and documentation project compiled by Herta Hurnaus, who lives in Vienna, and the architects Benjamin Konrad and Maik Novotny analyzes the work of prominent Slovakian architects of the time in a photographic documentary and an "oral history”.

The monumental prestigious buildings are above all the most impressive at first glance, with their features that display parallels to the sculptural designs of popular contemporary offices.

The illustrated book contains short interviews in an appendix and address architects and all those who are fascinated the aesthetic of the time.

• Archive
• Buildings
• East Modern
• Hotel
• Illustrated Book
• Modernism
• Photography
• Vienna
• architects
• architecture
• building
• design
• model
• seventies architecture
• sixties architecture

Herta Hurnaus was born in Linz. She has lived and worked in Vienna since 1986 and is one of Austria's most well-known architecture photographers. She has also worked as a product, protrait and advertising photographer.

The architects Maik Novotny and Benjamin Konrad have worked at various architecture offices in Stuttgart and Vienna and completed projects together since 1999.

Policies and ethics