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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 Kaufmann 96 GmbH split up on July 30, 2001. Johannes Kaufmann and Oskar Leo Kaufmann since have their own offices. Oskar Leo Kaufmann Steinebach 3 A-6850 Dornbirn AUSTRIA Tel +43 (5572) 39 49 69 - 0 Fax +43 (5572) 39 49 69 - 20 office@olk.cc www.olk.cc Born in 1969 in Bezau, Vorarlberg. Studied architecture at TU Vienna. Graduated in 1995. 1996 Establishment of an architect´s office, Kaufmann 96 together with Johannes Kaufmann. 1997 Co-founder of the company KFN Kaufmann product gmbh (modular housing systems). JOHANNES KAUFMANN ARCHITEKTUR Sägerstraße 4 A-6850 Dornbirn AUSTRIA Tel +43 (5572) 23 690 - 0 Fax +43 (5572) 23 690 - 4 office@jkarch.at www.jkarch.at Born in 1967 in Bezau, Vorarlberg. 1984 - 1987 Apprenticeship in carpentry. 1987 - 1989 Worked at architectural office of Kaufmann/Dietrich/Lenz, 1989 - 1992 architectural office of Ernst Hiesmayr, 1992 - 1995 joint office with Oskar Leo Kaufmann and qualified as a master builder in, 1997 qualification as master carpenter. Buildings, projects (selection): 1994 - 1995 Casino stadium Bregenz 1997 - 1998 Fair stadium Dornbirn 1998 Austria House at the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan 1998 Hotel Post Bezau 1997 Design and development of KFN housing systems, minimal housing units "SUSI" and "FRED". Through a handful of buildings, this new team set new standards for the already high level of wood construction in Vorarlberg. In conversation, Johannes and Oskar Leo Kaufmann - cousins from a dynasty of carpenters, architects and wood manufacturers - appear to be convinced they could produce wooden Jumbo jets and flying houses tomorrow, produced to order like cars from the assembly line and delivered by helicopter. Buckminster Fuller´s motto "more by less", long since deep-rooted in the minds of their colleagues from the west of Austria, has special significance for Kaufmann 96. Their structures are to be built more flexibly, faster and more lightweight. Modern wooden material combined with steel should be made thinner, bent further, curved higher and mounted more economically. K 96 unconcernedly follow the footsteps of Konrad Wachsmann who replaced the term "construct" with "join" and declared 40 years ago: "The machine-made product is going to be mass-produced in ideal precision and ready for use in the factory, which will replace the artisan´s workshop, and the building site will no longer be a place of production". [...] |
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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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