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Emerging Architecture 1 - Kommende Architektur 1 10 offices Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall Exhibition: 21 September 2000 - 30 October 2000 Opening Hours: daily 10:00 A.M to 7:00 P.M. Opening: Wednesday 20 September 2000, 7pm Peter Ebner Windmühlgasse 9 / 26 A - 1010 Vienna A U S T R I A Phone +43 (1) 586 85 22 Fax +43 (1) 587 78 87 ebner-ullmann@aon.at Born in Hallwang, Salzburg. Apprenticeship in carpentry, studied architecture at TU Graz and at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until 1996 project architect of Mark Mack, since 1995 own studio in Salzburg. 1996 - 1998 Board member of Initiative Architektur Salzburg and, since 1998 its president. Since 1998 joint studio with Franziska Ullmann in Vienna. Project-related partnerships with Francis Soler, Paris and atelier one, London. 1998 -2000 Guest critic at Harvard GSD, Boston, Mass. Projects, buildings (selection): 1997 - 1999 Student’s hostel Glockengasse 1997 - 2001 Roof extension 1999 - 2002 Pedestrian tower 1998 Museum der Moderne (competition) 1999 Footpath (competition) - all Salzburg Town 1999 Stadthalle, Graz (competition) 1998 - 2001 St.Anna Klinik, Stuttgart (in collaboration with Franziska Ullmann and Guenter Leonhardt) 1998 - 2000 Multi-generation residences "In der Wiesen", Vienna. Only if there is an intellectual plan can structural engineering become architecture. Seen from this perspective, Peter Ebner‘s externally rather heterogeneous projects reveal a strong inner coherence. His designs are not dominated by stylistic whim or by the market-conscious development of a signature, but by the mental image he conceives for the given occasion. His designs neither pursue a merely pragmatic performance of duty, nor an artificial mania for originality. He searches with changing team partners for the poetic perspective in every assignment, for the imaginary aspect that exceeds a mere performance of services. The post-modern era brought a return to fictional dimensions in architecture, split into totally opposing concepts of postfunctionalism. Ebner belongs to those within his generation who are searching for individual choices, far removed from fashionable trends. If he finds inspiration in René Magritte, Mark Rothko, Raimo Utriainen and others for the intellectual foundation of his buildings and projects, then not in a derivative manner. Rather, these references provide him with mental tools and create suitable visual filters to see beyond the pragmatic surface of a task to its deeper and broader structure. Thus a design can be detached from the logistics of a plan and achieve a transcendent plane - the meta-level of the intellectual plan - whichfrequentlyexceedsthe deceptive certainties of the purely func-tional, purely energy-optimizing and purely topological approach. Magritte and Rothko in particular are eminently suitable guides to descend below the accepted conception of space/reality, to disclose the paradoxical effects of our perception of things and to incorporate these aspects into structural designs as meta-functional parameters. According to Wittgenstein, such trains of thought and mental crutches should be discarded after use: they are simply instruments - tools and not the objective. The temptation of arriving at an immediate realization of the mental plan by integrating it as a concept into the construction of reality is certainly always present. In most cases the artistic, conceptual graft upon the building trade will then be lost in flat literalness. Peter Ebner is aware of these traps. He is not searching for poetical dimension merely for its effect, but works at transforming functionalism into a sensuous experience. [...] |
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Current Preview Permanent Exhibition Emerging Architecture 1 - Kommende Architektur 1 Press Release The 10 offices * Bulant & Wailzer * Peter Ebner * Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler * Kaufmann 96 GmbH * Rainer Köberl * lichtblau . wagner * Marte.Marte * Pichler & Traupmann * Riepl Riepl * Splitterwerk Gallery: Emerging Architecture 1 - Kommende Architektur 1 E-Shop Products: Book: Emerging Architecture 1 / Kommende Architektur 1 DVD: Emerging Architecture 1 - Kommende Architektur 1 Information: Ines Purtauf Tel.: +43 (1) 522 31 15 - 25 Fax: +43 (1) 522 31 17 Email: purtauf@azw.at |
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