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Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall
Exhibition: 06 December 2001 - 15 April 2002
Opening Hours: Daily 10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Opening: Wednesday 5 December 2001, 7pm
gerner°gerner plus mariahilferstrasse 101/3/49 a - 1060 Vienna austria phone +43-1-596 22 04 fax +43-1-595 44 94 gegeplus@chello.at www.gernergernerplus.com gerner°gerner plus on "nextroom - architektur im netz" (in german)
andreas gerner und gerda maria gerner born in salzburg and burgenland in 1964. studied at the tu vienna in 1985–92. contracting combine since 1996 (gerner/gerner). university assistantships at the second institute for building engineering at the same school, 1997–2000. 2000–01 lectureship at the tu vienna.
since 2000 gerner°gerner plus.
buildings, projects (select): 1996 hmh, sfd (=single-family dwelling), vienna 22 1997 dachbox, gießhübl, lower austria (1st prize, domico prize for metal building) 1998–2001 wellanschitz vine-growing estate, neckenmarkt, burgenland 1999 woodstock, sfd, vienna 17; lände, roof development, vienna 9 2000 zuck, office extension, oberpullendorf, burgenland; hagel, austrian graupel insurance company, vienna 8 2001 sued.see, sfd, jois, burgenland
planned/under construction: kfg, experimental residential building, vienna 23 (vienna municipality promoting prize for architecture, 1st prize 1998) igler, shop conversion, deutschkreutz, burgenland hafner, sfd, extension, feldkirchen, carinthia.
the poetics of industrial construction the ability to bring the universal and the concrete into accord is a strong point developed by gerner°gerner plus. they are perfectly able to tune their abstract ideal of constructive modernity, as it were, to clients' wishes and substantial requirements. the technical brilliance shown by their fine frameworks is not set in absolute terms, it is no a priori. rather, it develops from the potential inherent in a given occasion. their dynamics are sharpened in the emergent obstructions of pragmatics, the limitations of which are demonstrated and shifted, without applying provoking dogmatics. their avant-gardism is ideologically independent, attached neither to a material nor a geometry. they build in steel as well as in wood, be it curved or edged. it is primarily decisive to fully exploit the available industrial methods of the genre in a given framework and to integrate the concomitant advantages into customers' programs: short construction periods, dry assemblings, reduced costs and material, flexibility in building and occupancy, efficiency and easiness of spatial atmospheres. [...]
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