THE INCLINED PLANE
Vienna
1976


The "Inclined Plane" stood at the upper end of the Naschmarkt food market in Vienna, where there are no market stalls. Close to the old Stadtbahn (now U4 subway) station 'Kettenbrückengasse', designed by Otto Wagner, and also near Wagner's two tenement buildings on the Linke Wienzeile, it visually separated the long open space into two halves. The half towards the inner city was bordered by the black surface of the plane, the other half, facing away from the city, by the plane's other, white surface.