Name: Hans Hollein (1934-2014)
Brand: Non-physical Environmental Control Kit (Architekturpillen)
Price: 6000.00 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

Hans Hollein (1934-2014)
Non-physical Environmental Control Kit (Architekturpillen)
each: signed and dated 'Hollein 67' (lower right)
pills and typescript text on paper, in six parts, framed in three parts
each: 21 x 14.5cm.
Executed in 1967, this work is from an unknown edition

Birte Inge Christensen and John Hunov Collection, Copenhagen.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

‘I invented the "architecture pill". At that time, pharmaceuticals were developed which overcome claustrophobia or agoraphobia, which allowed rooms to appear less threatening by enlarging or reducing them perceptually. I imagined that one might even be able to produce images of architecture with pills, and I exhibited pills that I named, for example, "Hagia Sophia", "Sydney Opera" or "Stonehenge". The term architecture has been expanded in every direction, and my sentence "Everything is architecture" haunts me to this day’ – Hans Hollein