Museum of Vulcanism, Saint-Ours-les-Roches, Auvergne, France, Exterior perspective
Hans Hollein
Austrian, 1934–2014
1994
An architectural concept drawing in graphite on an electrostatic print that imagines a museum carved into volcanic cliffs, staging geology and light as theatrical architectural elements.
Towering, darkly shaded cliffs and a bridging promenade dominate the page, rendered with urgent, spiral graphite marks and abrupt dabs of yellow that read as molten lava or spotlit fissures, giving the scene a dramatic, collage-like intensity.
The work shows Hollein’s late-20th-century approach of treating buildings as theatrical landscapes—using drawing, print and collage to blur architecture, geology, and narrative and to propose new, site-driven museum typologies.
Medium
Graphite on electrostatic print
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 15 15/16" (29.8 x 40.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the architect in honor of Lily Auchincloss
Accession
382.1994
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