AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT – photographer Lois Lammerhuber’s new book pays tribute to this exceptional and freshly renovated building as an art treasure, appearing at EDITION LAMMERHUBER
After nearly five years of construction, the renovation of Austrian Parliament finally came to an end in 2023. Only a few days ahead of its official re-opening in January 2023, Lois Lammerhuber had the honor of capturing each of the more than 1000 rooms in the high house with his camera. Floor by floor, he explored this synthesis of the arts – and found some very surprising perspectives.
A building like a sculpture. A building that is home. A building of democracy formed into architecture. A memorial for peace. The very place where life itself is measured. Renovation equates to preservation of value. But renovation also means modernization. It means redefinition. It means a break with tradition, a caesura. It means pausing at a turning point in time. Like a general pause in a piece of music. The ultimate symbol of the country becomes even more visible. Becomes a building like no other. Radically new. Representatively open to everyone. The ultimate agora for all people. And Austrians. A meeting place. Shaping identity. It is where the life we live together as a community is determined.
The book was created to take readers by the hand, guide them through the building, make them feel at home and familiar with it. This book opens up the house … ‘makes the visible more visible’ through light, perspective, contrast and a mathematical-geometric design language … and makes discoveries where everything seems to already be known. This book was created as a visual contribution to helping all Austrians make the parliament building their parliament.
Lois Lammerhuber is a photographer and publisher. He has produced more than 1000 reportages, 250 of which for the magazine GEO, in addition to 80 books as well as hundreds of magazine covers. His photographs have brought him numerous awards, including three Graphis Photo Awards for the world’s best photo reportage of the year. He joined the Art Directors Club New York in 1994.
In 2009, he and his wife Frau Silvia Lammerhuber founded the publishing house Edition Lammerhuber, which has since garnered more than 200 awards from the Art Directors Club New York and the German Photobook Prize, among others. In 2013, 2015 and 2017, Edition Lammerhuber was chosen by the Federation of European Photographers (FEP) as the best photo book publisher in Europe.
In 2014, Lois Lammerhuber received the Republic of Austria’s Cross of Honor, First Class, for Science and Art, followed in 2017 by the Golden Medal of Honor for Services to the City of Vienna, the Prize for Special Merit for Representative and Media Art by the City of Baden, and the Grand Medal of Honor for Services to the Province of Lower Austria. In 2013, he co-founded the Global Peace Photo Award, which has since been held annually at the Austrian Parliament. Since 2018, he has been the Director of the Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo. In 2023, Lois Lammerhuber initiated the Open Your Eyes Photo Festival Zurich.
AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT by Lois Lammerhuber . 27 × 27 cm, 264 pages, 165 color photos . German | English . Hardcover, bound in linen, French fold jacket . ISBN 978-3-903101-96-8 . EUR 49.90
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