Bernard Rudofsky

Bernard Rudofsky (born March 19, 1905 in Suchdol nad Odrou , then Zaucht (e) l, Moravia ; † March 12, 1988 in New York City ) was an internationally active architect and cultural theorist who studied the relationship between lifestyle and architecture busy. He is the author of publications on Anonymous Architecture .

The Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna) showed in 1987 in honor of the architect a retrospective titled Bernard Rudofsky: Sparta / Sybaris. No new construction - a new way of life is necessary .

In 2009 the Rudofskyweg in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

• Are Clothes Modern? 1947.
• Behind the picture window. 1955.
• Japan: Book Design Yesterday. 1962.
• Architecture without architects. An introduction to anonymous architecture . Residence, Salzburg / Vienna 1989 (English: Architecture Without Architects. A short introduction to non-pedigreed architecture . Translated by Regina Haslinger and Berta Rudofsky).
• The Kimono Mind. An Informal Guide to Japan and the Japanese 1965.
• Streets for people . Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-7017-0920-3 (Original title: Streets for People. A Primer for Americans . 1969. Translated by Berta Rudofsky and Brigitte Herberstein, 1988).
• The Unfashionable Human Body. 1971.
• The Prodigious Builders. Notes toward a natural history of architecture with special regard to those species that are traditionally neglected or downright ignored 1977.
• Now I Lay Me Down to Eat. Notes and footnotes on the lost art of living. 1980.
• Sparta / Sybaris. No new building method, a new way of life is necessary. , Ed .: Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7017-0501-1 .

Secondary literature

• Andrea Bocco Guarneri: Bernard Rudofsky: A Humane Designer. Springer-Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-211-83719-1 .
• Monika Platzer: Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky. Life is a journey. Exhibition Architekturzentrum Wien 2007, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles 2008, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-8359-6 .
• Ugo Rossi: Bernard Rudofsky architect. Clean Edizioni, Napoli, 2016, ISBN 978-88-8497-527-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernard Rudofsky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernard Rudofsky. In: arch INFORM .
• Bernard Rudofsky. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• Conversation with Monika Platzer and Maria Welzig: About Bernard Rudofsky. Radio ORANGE 94.0, March 5, 2007
• Radio report on the collaboration between Rudofsky and Costantino Nivola : A Garden on Long Island , Ö1 Leporello , 2016
• Entry on Rudofsky in the Design Info Pool on MAK.at
• Bernard Rudofsky's estate and rights management: rudofsky.org