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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 Splitterwerk Vinzenzgasse 8 A-8020 Graz A U S T R I A Phone +43 (316) 58 10 33 Fax +43 (316) 58 10 33 splitterwerk@splitterwerk.at www.splitterwerk.at Splitterwerk are: Mark Blaschitz (Born in 1965) Johann Grabner (Born in 1963) Bernhard Kargl (Born in 1965) Gernot Ritter (Born in 1968) Josef Roschitz (Born in 1964) Markus Zechner (Born in 1967) All studied at the TU Graz. Since 1988 "Architecture Workshop Splitterwerk". 1992 - 1996 Active participation in lectures on the basics of design, seminars on structural engineering and experimental structural engineering at the TU Graz. Several theses and projects on the border areas of architecture and art, several competition awards. Building, Projects (selection): 1994 - low-cost-experimental building which could be dismantled easily, made of wooden plates as a prefabricated system, "Prototype Übelbach" 1994 - 1996 residential buildings Hödlwald, Salzburg, Duswald Office in Bürmoos, Salzburg Since 1999 City Tower of Culture and New Media Graz Splitterwerk further develop the ideas of the 60s, they consistently seek to expand the limits of architectural practice. Architecture begins long before building and does not end with it: Construction is not the answer to every architectural problem. The clever combination of existing structures, the rethinking of social or technological patterns of behavior, are often more important for solving problems than building might be - very much in keeping with Bernard Rudofsky‘s sentence that not a new construction method is needed, but a new way of life . The group formed at the end of the 80s, during their student years, and began with a series of controversial competition entries. When in 1989, there was a competition to create a "mobile hall" for the festival "Steirischer Herbst", Splitterwerk reacted with the suggestion that not the building should be made mobile but the people, and they propagated the use of the local tramway network in conjunction with locations close to it like sheds, galleries, and empty industrial halls. Theadjudicators were impressed, but it was only enough for a special prize. The "mobile hall" was never built. However, the Graz avant-garde festival has held its events - in keeping with Splitterwerk‘s ideas - in scattered ever-changing locations, since 1990. Shortly after that, their proposal for the competition "Hauptplatz Graz" presented an analogous critic of architecture competition. The starting point there too: don‘t unreflectingly work on the design of a thing, instead research the reason for the given problem, with the assurance that this research will first change the way you see the problem and then change the product as well. The group proved that these demands were to be taken seriously with a thesis at the TU Graz. With an urban development analysis and political analysis of flats as a starting point, the prototype for an exceptionally cheap prefabricated house system was developed, one which could be transported easily and was variable and which was then built, keeping within all building regulations. The production process - from the raw-cut wood to the wall and roof elements - all took place at the yard of the university like a "trial factory". From that point on, they started getting their first building contracts. Splitterwerk, however, did not specialize. In changing constellations, architects, photographers, marketing experts, artists, engineers, stage designers and programmers work at the crossover point of their disciplines. [...] |
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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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