Raimund Johann Abraham (1933-2010) was an Austrian-American architect and professor of architecture. His most spectacular project was the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, completed in 2002, which caused an international sensation.

Abraham repeatedly emphasized that architecture does not necessarily have to be built - split between the will to build and the desire to dream. Paper, pencil and a pure longing for space would suffice to create architecture. He only saw building as the final step in making the physical usability of architecture possible.

For Abraham, language was a tool and a passion in the same way as the pencil. The notes, statements, interviews and sketches in this publication from the Archiv Marzona / Archiv der Avantgarden are reproduced in the language (German or English) and in the (dis)order in which Raimund Abraham left them in his sketchbooks and notebooks.