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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 Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Nelkengasse 4 / 5 A-1060 Vienna A U S T R I A Phone +43 (1) 581 62 50 Fax +43 (1) 581 62 51 geiswinklerarchitekten@vienna.at Markus Geiswinkler Born in 1956 in Vienna. 1975 - 1983 Studied architecture at TU Vienna. Kinayeh Geiswinkler-Aziz Born in 1964 in Baghdad, Irak. 1999 Graduated from TU Vienna. Since 1990 joint studio in Vienna. Buildings, projects (selection): 1992 - 1995 Multi-purpose hall at the district offices building in Vienna-Favoriten 1994 - 1995 Children’s day center in Vienna-Floridsdorf 1997 Reconstruction of the gallery "Image", Vienna 1998 Restaurant and bar "Guess-Club" in Vienna-Mariahilf. At present the office is working on a residential complex in Vienna-Liesing and on a garden development in Vienna-Simmering. Town-planning and structural design regulate the dynamics between private and public sphere and anonymity by means of geometry and technology, whereby the natural landscape is transformed into the dense relief of the development area. Be it a kindergarten or a residential building at the periphery or a bar in the center: the Geiswinklers always react carefully to the situation and the envisaged use - never blindly fulfilling a program, but transforming their impression of a site and assignment into a practical, open possibility. Thus their buildings combine the contemporary leanings towards the abstract with the timelessness of human constancy. In choice of material and detail they openly indulge their passion for reduction and high-tech minimalism, but not only that. Their work revives the smoothness, silence and solitude of minimalism on a subtler level of design. Glass and metal in their cold facelessness become again eloquent agents for the qualities of direct and indirect lighting and vision, of optical reflex and diffusion as well as modulation of acoustics and tactile atmosphere - masterfully enacted on the urbane stage of the Guess-Club. It dramatically opened up an old, closed-in corner of the city and at the same time created a multi-facetted, urbane setting around the external solitude and superficiality of Internet and bar communication. Unlike the sharply edged prisms favored at present, their residential projects display a vividly differentiated relationship between building and environment, they work as intensely on the cross-sections of their multi-storied structures as the old masters did on the profiles of cornices and eaves: the creation of transitions for space and light, the interaction of sight-lines and shadows, was and is the theme, both then and now. [...] |
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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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