Authors on Architecture: Schmitzberger, Sarnitz, & McGuire on Preis
SAH/SCC Zoom Program
Sunday, February 05, 2023
Tune
into SAH/SCC for a panel discussion celebrating the new book, Alfred Preis
DISPLACED: The Tropical Modernism of the Austrian Emigrant and Architect of the
USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor (Doppelhouse
Press, 2022). Learn about the work and arts advocacy of this Viennese modernist
who fled Nazi-occupied Austria and transformed regional Hawaiian architecture.
We will be joined
by editor Axel Schmitzberger, and contributing authors Laura McGuire and August
Sarnitz. Axel Schmitzberger is partner in the design build firm Domaen
LTD, and principal of the graphic design firm starfish-prime; previously, he
worked for Morphosis. August Sarnitz, architect and author of the definitive
books on Rudolph Schindler, Adolf Loos, Otto Wagner and others will also join
the panel. Christopher Long, an SAH/SCC favorite and the Martin S. Kermacy Centennial Professor of Architectural and Design History at the University of Texas will help place Preis in the context of Central European and American Modernism.
Architect, planner, and arts
advocate Alfred Preis, FAIA (1911-1994), dedicated his many creative talents to
his beloved, adopted home, Hawai’i. Born to a Jewish family, raised, and
educated in Vienna, Preis became an exile after escaping from Nazi-occupied
Austria in 1939 and briefly being interned as an “enemy alien” when the United
States entered World War II. Preis emerged as one of Hawai’i’s leading modern
architects in the 1950s and 1960s. His celebrated architectural career spanned
23 years. In this time, he designed almost 180 completed projects ranging from
residences, schools, and commercial buildings to public parks. His new,
regionalist vision for architecture and planning were specific to the Hawaiian
context, its people, its tropical climate, and its stunning landscape. Preis’s
crowning achievement was his design for the famed USSArizonaMemorial
at Pearl Harbor in 1962.
The program will illustrate the
transition from a European modern language into a regional modernism, unifying
both cultures in distinct and pioneering ways.
Alfred Preis Displaced—Sunday, February 5, 2023; 1-2:30 PM
PST; ; $5; www.sahscc.org and pay via PayPal or mail in order form with
check.
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