{"id":1814,"date":"2010-03-05T11:38:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2010-03-05T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:38:55","slug":"raimund-abraham-1933-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1814","title":{"rendered":"Raimund Abraham, 1933\u20132010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/acf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/acf.jpg\" alt=\"acf\" title=\"acf\" height=\"160\" align=left \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Herbert Muschamp <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-ca-herbert-muschamp3-2010jan03,0,3839232.story\">often griped<\/a> that New York was allergic to &#8220;serious architecture,&#8221; a refrain <a href=\"http:\/\/observatory.designobserver.com\/entry.html?entry=12708\">frequently aped<\/a> by his successor, Nicolai Ourousoff. This was and is both unfair and inaccurate, and one of the buildings that demonstrates as much is Raimund Abraham&#8217;s 2002 Austrian Cultural Forum, which opened in 2002. Only 25 feet wide, it slices down from the sky, a kind of Easter Island guillotine. It&#8217;s a great building, a building with a spine [both literal and figurative], and a series of controlled, smartly crafted spaces. Abraham was killed earlier this week in a <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2010\/03\/architect-raimund-abraham-in-fatal-la-crash.html\">Los Angeles car accident<\/a>, awful news. He had just given a lecture at Sci-Arc. A loss for architecture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herbert Muschamp often griped that New York was allergic to &#8220;serious architecture,&#8221; a refrain frequently aped by his successor, Nicolai Ourousoff. This was and is both unfair and inaccurate, and one of the buildings that demonstrates as much is Raimund Abraham&#8217;s 2002 Austrian Cultural Forum, which opened in 2002. Only 25 feet wide, it slices &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1814\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raimund Abraham, 1933\u20132010<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}