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Emerging Architecture 2 - Kommende Architektur 2 10 More Austrians 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 Gerhard Mitterberger Glacisstrasse 7 A - 8010 Graz AUSTRIA Phone +43-316-381 580 Fax +43-316-386 029 mitterberger@aon.at Gerhard Mitterberger on "nextroom - architektur im netz" (in german) born in Lienz, East Tirol, in 1957. Studied architecture at the TU Graz; diploma in 1985. Was granted a scholarship under Sverre Fehn in Oslo in 1986. Established his own office in 1989 in Graz and Lienz. Lectureship in 1997–2000 at the TU Graz, Institute of Building Sciences. Buildings, projects (select): 1991–1995 Nussdorf-Debant Community Center, East Tirol (1994 DOMICO Prize; 1995 State Prize for Industrial and Commercial Building; Special Prize, Nussdorf-Debant Fire Department) 1994 Klagenfurt Hospital, Central Institute for Roentgenology (with Peter Jungmann) 1996-1998 Karl Franzens University Graz, Students Union, conversion 1998-2000 Parking Lot, Monocable Lift and Service Facilities, Matrei, East Tirol (2001 Joseph Binder Award) 1999 Stallhofen Sports and Recreational Center, Styria 2000 Bruck Castle Museum, Lienz Under construction: Passail Nursing Home Bad Waltersdorf Sports Center; both in Styria. Between Truck and Formula One Dealing with nature is a yardstick of cultural maturity in a country that depends on marketing the Alpine regions it is marked by. To date, Gerhard Mitterberger has chiefly implemented buildings for summer and winter sports, in addition to converting historical sites which are as long-time integrated motifs of natural beauty as palaces and castles are Mitterberger's approach to such tasks is drastically different from the folkloristic or modernistic clichés that today dominate this genre. His interventions into grown or built substances are precise, unsentimental, unvarnished. They serve to emphasize the instrumental character displayed by the complexes and are fed neither by historical nor idealizing ideologies. Rather, their background is the domain of playfield shanties, makeshift stages, security constructions along avalanche slopes. It is the efficient world of bivouac equipment, agricultural machines, torrent regulations, overhead supply lines, platform newsstands, hang-gliders' platforms – undiluted technology, no 'design'. Sports facilities such as Stallhofen transfer the intelligence associated with a Leatherman tool to a larger scale, to the sportive conditioning of the landscape, connecting a precise concept that carefully rationalizes all expenditures with the directness and robustness of means and materials. [...] |
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Current Preview Permanent Exhibition Emerging Architecture 2 - Kommende Architektur 2 Press Release 10 More Austrians * cukrowicz.nachbaur * fasch&fuchs. * Flöckner Schnöll Architects * Hans Gangoly * gerner°gerner plus * Erich Gutmorgeth * HOLODECK.at * MARTERERMOOSMANN * Gerhard Mitterberger * Wolfgang Tschapeller E-Shop Products: Book: Emerging Architecture 2 / Kommende Architektur 2 DVD: Emerging Architecture 2 - Kommende Architektur 2 Information: Ines Purtauf Tel.: +43 (1) 522 31 15 - 25 Fax: +43 (1) 522 31 17 Email: purtauf@azw.at |
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