Since the Kunsthaus landed in Graz as a Friendly Alien, you couldn’t imagine the city without it. The exhibition “Up Into the Unknown” recapitulates its development, up to the opening in the city’s year as Capital of Culture in 2003. The visionary ideas of London architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier underwent a number of transformations before the project was completed: time frames, technical limitations, tight budgets, functional requirements, and also coincidences all modified the concept. Nevertheless, the building still bespeaks the utopian, visionary aspects that continue to fire people’s imagination today.

The exhibition “Graz Architecture – Rationalists, Aesthetes, Stomach-pit Architects, Democrats, Mediacrats” spotlights the protagonists of Graz’s architecture scene, tracing their direct or indirect links to their British colleagues Peter Cook and Colin Fournier. The architectural range goes from pragmatic, functional and aesthetic to expressionist. “Graz Architecture” presents a synopsis from the 1960s and 1970s to the present.

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