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 Richard Copans, Stan Neumann La caisse d'Epagne de Vienne La Sept ARTE / Musée D'Orsay / Les Films d'Ici, France 1998, 26' Otto Wagner was part of the Viennese was one of the innovators who worked at the end of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century and proved to be one of the most important supporters of modern architecture in Central Europe. In 1903, at sixty years of age, he began the construction of the Caisse d'Epagne in Vienna, considered his most innovative work. Breaking away from the architecture that he had practiced until that moment, he conceived the building as a part of the city in the past, the Ringstrasse. Wagner rejected the conception of the neoclassical building in order to concentrate on the functionality of the place. The references to the industrial space became constant and explicit, casting the foundation of an architecture resolutely modern. It remains difficult to approach the works of Wagner; to approach a functionalism pure and hard and opposed to an aesthetic of the mask behind which the elements of the construction are not clearly recognizable, but rendered visible through specific signs, as the hundreds of nails that adorn the marble facade. Richard Copans was born in 1947 and studied at IDHEC. He is the founder and coordinator of Films d'Aujourd'hui since 1984. In addition, he is a producer of full-length films as well as documentaries and a director of photography. Since 1992, he has edited with Stan Neumann, the series Architectures seen on the French-German channel Arte. Since 1998 he has worked on the series Les Mots de l'Architecte, that rather than presenting a personality or a monograph, instead renders the basic concepts of architecture in a manner more familiar to the public at large. Stan Neumann was born in Prague in 1949 and he completed his studies at IDHEC. Today, he is the producer of numerous films and documentaries in which he invests information and poetry, objectivity and emotion, concern for detail and the delicacy of a patient eye. Neumann contemplates architecture without forgetting that it is a lived space, not only a structure, but a place of life. In addition to his participation in the collection Architectures, that he has co-directed with Richard Copans since 1992, his works include Louvre, le temps d'un musee in 1993, Paris, Roman d'un ville in 1991, e Les derniers Marranes in 1990. |
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