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This book offers an in-depth look at the work of one of the most important phenomena of Austria’s avant-garde art and architecture scene of the 1970s, MISSING LINK. The group founded by Angela Hareiter, Otto Kapfinger, and Adolf Krischanitz took on interdisciplinary projects that sought lines of connection between people, architecture, art, urbanity, and the social fabric, and expanded the repertoire of architecture to include experimental concepts. The result was a multi-layered and highly regarded body of work that includes artistic installations, objects, paintings, drawings, and posters, as well as urban sociological studies, actions, and experimental television films. This volume combines a comprehensive ‘catalogue raisonné’ with numerous, mostly hitherto unpublished images.

Art, Austrian --- Art --- Architecture --- Art and architecture --- Art autrichien --- Art et architecture --- History --- Histoire --- Krischanitz, Adolf, --- Hareiter, Angela, --- Kapfinger, Otto --- Missing Link --- Kapfinger, Otto, --- Missing Link (Group of architects, Austria, Vienna).

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"Victor Gruen was one of the twentieth century's most influential architects and is regarded as the father of the U.S. shopping mall. In spring 1979, less than a year before his death, he began reconstructing his life story. Now available in English for the first time, Shopping Town is the long overdue account of a man whose work fundamentally altered the course of city development. Shopping Town opens in Vienna in 1938 with the Anschluss--the turning point in Gruen's life--as he narrowly escaped the Nazi regime. A few years later, in the suburbs of postwar America, the Jewish refugee sought to reproduce the vitality of Vienna's city center and invented the commercial apparatus now known as the shopping mall. Gruen's Southdale Mall in Edina, Minnesota, was the first fully enclosed shopping center in America. He then translated the concept to economically neglected city centers, setting the path for pedestrian zones and fighting passionately for an urban ideal without compromise. Highlighting Gruen's sense of humor as well as reflections on the complex forces that sustained the postwar transformation of American cities, Shopping Town embeds Gruen's experiences and perspectives in a wider social and political context while helping us understand his problematic place in American architectural culture. With afterwords by his son and daughter, Shopping Town closes with Anette Baldauf's richly insightful essay on the legacy of Victor Gruen"--

Environmental planning --- urban planning --- Gruen, Victor --- United States --- Expatriate architects --- Architects --- Stores, Retail --- Shopping malls --- City planners --- Town planners --- Urbanists --- Malls, Pedestrian --- Malls, Shopping --- Retail stores --- Shops --- History --- Gruen, Victor, --- Grünbaum, Victor David, --- Gruenbaum, Victor, --- Planners --- Professional employees --- Pedestrian areas --- Retail trade --- Shopping centers --- Arcades --- Commercial buildings --- Expatriate architects - United States - Biography --- Architects - Austria - Biography --- Stores, Retail - United States - History - 20th century --- Shopping malls - United States - History - 20th century --- City planners - Austria - Biography --- Gruen, Victor, - 1903-1980 --- United States of America