Database of Funded Projects
The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies has generously funded academic research and public history projects that promote an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria. The following search tools make it possible to explore these projects and to learn more about the scholars and organizations who have received BIAAS grants and fellowships.
Despina Stratigakos
The book chronicles the life, work, and impact of Austrian-American Ella Briggs, an innovative artist, designer, and architect. Briggs appeared at the turning points and places of modernist history: she painted with the Secessionists in Vienna, created luminous rooms in Gilded Age New York, erected workers' housing in the First Austrian Republic, and constructed suburban homes for Americans in the prosperous Roaring Twenties. Fifteen Austrian and American experts in modernism collaborate in this project to uncover the little-known history of Briggs, revealing how her international networks helped to spread ideas of modernism between the United States and Austria.
Christopher Long
This book, Volume 3 of Viennese architect Josef Frank's complete writings, features a single work, a series of linked essays Frank wrote in the mid-1940s but never published. In addition to an introduction by Christopher Long, the work includes important essays about Frank's life and work written by Tano Bojankin, Hermann Czech, and Otto Kapfinger. This translation of the original German-language volume marks the first time this seminal work of Frank's—a powerful critique of modernism—will [...]
Oliver Sukrow – Alternative Spaces of Innovation. A Comparative Study of 19th-Century Spa Towns as Regional Innovation Clusters
Dr. Oliver Sukrow received a $21,118 BIAAS grant for his research project “Alternative Spaces of Innovation. A Comparative Study of 19th-Century Spa Towns as Regional Innovation Clusters.” His interdisciplinary project aims from a historical-comparative perspective at exploring how 19th-century spa towns in Austria and California became regional innovation clusters. This project argues that innovation in 19th-century Austria and California also occurred in ‘alternative’ spaces such as spa towns. He is particularly interested in exploring [...]
Sang Pil Lee – Hans Hollein’s Expanded Environments: Austrian and American Architectural Exchange in the First Electronic Age, 1956–1976
Sang Pil Lee received a 2019 Botstiber grant to pursue research in Vienna for his project “Hans Hollein’s Expanded Environments: Austrian and American Architectural Exchange in the First Electronic Age, 1956–1976.” […]
Matti Bunzl – Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, and Modernist Residences in California
BIAAS awarded a grant to Matti Bunzl to fund the production of the English publication “Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, and Modernist Residences in California” (working title) by Andreas Nierhaus (text) and David Schreyer (photography). […]
Monika Platzer – Cold War and Architecture: The Competing Forces that Reshaped Austria after 1945
In contrast to Berlin, Vienna is not perceived as the site of a politicized architectural debate during the Cold War. […]