Congratulations Erwin Hauer! · Dec 8, 10:41 AM
The 24th Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame Awards & Gala were held on Wednesday, December 3, 2008. The highest honor of the interior design profession, the gala drew a sell-out crowd of over 1,500 top international designers, and architects—a veritable Who’s Who of the profession.
Our congratulations go out to Erwin Hauer (right) who received a long overdue lifetime achievement award, as well as a couple of standing ovations. He dedicated part of his acceptance speech to thanking Princeton Architectural Press for publishing his book Erwin Hauer: Continua.
If we rarely think of walls as works of mesmerizing beauty, Erwin Hauer can hardly be blamed. Erwin Hauer: Continua resurrects the extraordinary but little-known work of this Austrian-born sculptor, whose designs of perforated and modular structures are symphonies of measured elegance. Built in Austria, Canada, Italy, Mexico, Holland, the Antilles, Venezuela, and the U.S., Hauer’s architectural walls and screens caused a stir when they were erected in the 1950s, but have since been lost in time. This book gathers stunning photographs of these works, many of them now destroyed or no longer accessible.
Erwin Hauer; Photography by John T. Hill.
Hauer has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and his sculptures can be found in many public and corporate collections, including those of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Benson Sculpture Park in Loveland, CO, and the Museum of the National Academy of Design.
The Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame:
was established to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the growth and prominence of the design field. Hall of Fame members include such design legends as Mario Buatta, Clodagh, Thierry Despont, Frank Gehry, Albert Hadley, Andree Putman, Philippe Starck and John Pawson. The Hall of Fame is self-perpetuating—that is, the membership itself chooses the annual group of new inductees. Proceeds from the dinner will be given to the Foundation for Inteior Design Education and Research (FIDER) and Architecture for Humanity, a non-profit organization that develops design solutions to global crises.
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