ÖZKD LXXVII Heft 1 Symposium Josef Hoffmann, pp. 28-33, 2024/04/15
Symposium Josef Hoffmann 2022
This article provides a number of insights into recent monument conservation appraisals and measures carried out on villas designed by Josef Hoffmann in Vienna’s 19th district, Döbling. Located in the northwest of Vienna, this leafy district is home to numerous privately owned villas, including the villas described in the article, which were all built between 1910 and 1914. A complete renovation of Villa Ast on the Hohe Warte has been underway since 2021; the windows and facades of Villa Bernatzik were repaired in 2022; and various appraisals and structural measures have been carried out on individual buildings in the Kaasgraben villa colony since 2010. Although the renovation work on the facades and windows in the villas presented here have one major point in common, each villa has its own unique characteristics and the needs of residents have to be taken into consideration. The objective, from the perspective of the Austrian Federal Monuments Office (Bundesdenkmalamt), is both to preserve Josef Hoffmann’s work in a historically appropriate way and to ensure that the villas can continue to be used for decades to come. The cases outlined are intended to exemplify the many varied tasks ann.d challenges that characterise the everyday work of monument conservation.