HAUER: ERWIN HAUER:CONTINUA-ARCHITECTURAL SCREE AND WALLS

If we rarely think of walls as works of mesmerizing beauty, Erwin Hauer can hardly be blamed. Erwin Hauer: Continua resurrects the extraordinary but little-known work of this Austrian-born sculptor, whose designs of perforated and modular structures are symphonies of measured elegance. Built in Austria, Canada, Italy, Mexico, Holland, the Antilles, Venezuela, and the U.S., Hauer's architectural walls and screens caused a stir when they were erected in the 1950s, but have since been lost in time. This book gathers stunning photographs of these works, many of them now destroyed or no longer accessible. Hauer has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and his sculptures can be found in many public and corporate collections, including those of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Benson Sculpture Park in Loveland, CO, and the Museum of the National Academy of Design. Born in Vienna, Hauer has an MFA in sculpture from the Academy of Applied Art in Vienna, and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. He taught at Yale Univ. School of Art for 30 years and has participated in 28 one-person exhibitions and more than 150 group shows in the US. Among his many awards, Hauer was granted a Fulbright to study in the US, an annual award from the Industrial Designers Institute of Chicago, and the Morse Fellowship from Yale.