LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY
ARCHITECTURE TALKS
8 November
6 p.m.
Location: Sigmund Freud Museum, Berggasse 19, 1090 Vienna
Architecture for Memory
Karl Peyrer-Heimstätt and Christoph Schwarz (Vienna)
OPENING REMARKS: Inge Scholz-Strasser (Sigmund Freud Foundation)
MODERATOR: Michael Kerbler (Ö1/"Im Gespräch")
Erecting a visitors’ center on the grounds of the memorial site Mauthausen is an act of steering the perception of history in a new direction. Because the events and people being remembered are continually retreating into the distance of history, the visitors’ center was built to direct attention to everything that is no longer visible or imaginable at the former concentration camp. Our era’s culture of memory is readable in the dialectic between the memorial’s original structures and those that are newly built – a society that has undergone change and is separated by the distance of history results in an interaction with history that is more and more analytically oriented.
Karl Peyrer-Heimstätt, Herwig Mayer and Christoph Schwarz founded the architecture cooperative MSPH Architekten in 2001. They studied together in the Hollein master class at the University of Applied Art in Vienna.