Peter Noever: Obsessions In_Focus

Confrontations, Experiences, and Glowing Friendships

Exhibition at SCI-Arc Gallery
19 April — 18 August 2019
Opening Reception:
Friday, 18 April, 7pm

SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles
960 E. 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

→ SCI-Arc website

Onward, for a New Architecture! No compromises.
New spaces, cathedrals for life.
To survive!

— peter noever

13 short films, produced especially for the exhibition

Arian Lehner and Dieter Fellner in collaboration with Peter Noever

Raimund Abraham, I do not need a client to make architecture
Vito Acconci, The City Inside Us
Günther Domenig, Architecture stands for objection. Objection against arbitrariness and transience. Architecture is both resistance and experiment
Zaha Hadid, How To Make Space of No-Man’s No-Space
Magdalena Jetelová, No Return!
Eric Owen Moss, A newly built world for the inhabitants of a new world.
Walter Pichler, Look at me, I’m alive! I love my work. Does that sound absurd and unreasonable?
Wolf D. Prix, Architecture must blaze!
Bernard Rudofsky, Sparta / Sybaris: Not a new way of building, a new way of life is due.
James Turrell, The Other Horizon
Franz West, Merciless
Lebbeus Woods, Tomorrow, We Begin Together the Construction of a City
Die Grube / The Pit, Peter Noever

Film portrait Obsessions In_Focus for the opening night of the exhibition by Gregor Eichinger and Peter Noever in cooperation with Dieter Fellner and Arian Lehner

Film portraits of Vito Acconci and Lebbeus Woods produced by ZONE and Peter Noever

Documentation of the video installation. (video documentation: Joshua White)

Excerpt of the opening video. Film portrait Obesession In_Focus for the opening night of the exhibition by Gregor Eichinger and Peter Noever in cooperation with Dieter Fellner and Arian Lehner.

Quickshot (by Andrea Lenardin Madden) of exhibition environment showing “A newly built world for the inhabitants of a new world.”, a short film portrait of Eric Owen Moss.

Quickshot (by Andrea Lenardin Madden) of exhibition environment showing “Merciless”, a short film portrait of Franz West.

The exhibition was made possible with major support from: The Federal Chancellery of Austria – Arts and Culture Division, ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and The Austrian Consul General Andreas Launer, Los Angeles