Ernst A. Plischke (1903 - 1992): Werkmonographie

The Austrian architect Ernst A. Plischke (1903 - 1992) is generally known for his striking buildings in Austria during the 1930th. Amoung these are the "Employment Office" in Vienna, Liesing (1930), his semi-detached houses for the Werkbundsiedlung in Vienna (1932), and the country house near lake Attersee, known as Gamerith House (1933). After his emigration to New Zealand in 1939 he first worked as a civil servant for the city of Wellington, before starting his own architectural practice. During the following years Plischke realized a great number of coincidently modern buildings, mainly single family houses and appartment buildings, but also churches and Massey House, a multi-purpose building in Wellington. 1963 Plischke returned in Vienna to order to take over a professorship at the renowned School of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he himself had studied with Peter Behrens. Within the 20th century architectural history of Austria, Ernst A. Plischke emerges as one of the key figures of modern architecture in the sense of the "International Style". Together with Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, and Ernst Lichtblau the architect Ernst A. Plischke documents the most interesting oevre in the complex field of urban design, architecture, interior design, furniture and landscaping. The Plischke monography offers the first entire oevre catalogue of the architect. The publication is based on primary sources from the EAP archive at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and a research project of the FWF organized interdisciplinary with the specific fields of architectural history, furniture history, and art history.