The Austrian Winery Boom, Exhibition opening ACF New York

After a couple of days setting up the exhibition (plus a day of finetuning)  the end of this design job approached in form of a very fine opening venue. The setting actually worked out pretty smooth, with no major problems, and faster then expected. The program for the opening venue was a real feast for the serious wine lover slash architecture afficionado, and there were a lot of them! A panel discussion about "The Austrian Winery Boom" was held and included panelists Dietmar Steiner, the director of Viennas Architecture Center (Az W, this institution actually comissionded the exhibition design), Andres Lepik (Curator MoMA), Christian Wassmann (Steven Holl Office) and Andreas Stadler, the newly assigned director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York. The discussion circumfenced the connection between the rise of a new generation of Austrian vintners, devoted to the production of high quality wines, and the innovative architecture they comissioned young architects with. I won´t go into detail about the projects on exhibition as it would take some time to describe all 43 projects on display. Another point of the opening venue was the screening of the movie "Mondovino" depicting the globalization effects on the wine sector. The exhibition design was received very well and I enjoyed the evening, discussing over a glas of excellent wine pleasing with black current leaves, paprika, spices, and tickling freshness.