ABSTRACT
This chapter unravels the post-war initiatives to ‘re-educate’ Austria – a potential target for Communism during the Cold War – within a cultural context that affected Hans Hollein’s architectural development. For example, Konrad Wachsmann’s lectures/exhibitions in Vienna and his Salzburg summer schools were supported by the US Department of State. Hollein attended Wachsmann’s 1956 summer school and then applied for and won a Harkness Scholarship to study at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where many former Bauhaus teachers were now located, including Mies van der Rohe. Hollein went to the US in search of the architectural modernism he felt had bypassed Austria.
