A Palaver 229 – Alfred Preis
Von Redakteur am 26. März 2023 | Kat: Allgemein
Dienstag 2023 04 04 – ab 14:00 auf Radio O94,0
Donnerstag 2023 04 20 – ab 14:00 auf Radio Freirad
About the person Alfred Preis: Vienna in the tropics.
In the late 1930ies life circumstances for Jewish people and other groups in Austria became unbearable. Those who found a way to leave saved their life but had to find their place in a different society. Alfred Preis, a jew who converted to Christianity, somehow managed to finish his studies of architecture at the TU Wien a few months after the „Anschluss“ in 1938 and left with his spouse for an adventurous journey to Hawaii.
Over the years he was able to generate a combination of local architecture, optimized for the climatical challenges of a tropic island and based on his Viennese education. He is the author of a large number of projects, including some public and social projects and the well-known „USS Arizona“ Memorial.
Throughout his career, he focused on supporting art and the preservation of the landscape of Hawaii – after his architectural career he concentrated on these topics also successfully as a politician.
Guests of this episode are Laura McGuire and Axel Schmitzberger, who together with August Sarnitz, Stephen Phillips, and Christopher Long, condensed intense research in an exhibition and a fantastique book called „Alfred Preis -Displaced – The Tropical Modernism of the Austrian Emigrant and Architect of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor“.
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