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Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall
Exhibition: 21 November 2002 - 10 March 2003
Opening Hours: Daily 10:00 am - 7:00 pm, Wed until 9:00 pm
Opening: Wednesday 20 November 2002, 7pm
PPAG Anna Popelka Georg Poduschka Schadekgasse 16/1 A - 1060 Vienna AUSTRIA Phone +43-1-587 44 71 Fax +43-1-587 44 71 po_po@chello.at www.ppag.at
Anna Popelka and Georg Poduschka studied architecture from 1980 - 1987 at the TU in Graz, and from 1986 - 1994 at the TU in Graz as well as the Ecole d'Architecture Paris-Tolbiac. Upper Austrian Promotion Prize; Viennese Promotion Prize 1994.
PPAG Anna Popelka Georg Poduschka since 1995. Visiting professorship in 1997/98 at the Department of Interior Design, Vienna TU.
Buildings, projects (select): Praterstraße Housing and Attic Extension, Vienna (1999 Arce Prize), 1995 - 1998 Floatingtank at the Museum of Perception, Graz, 1997 - 1999 Augarten Nord Graz Development Plan Design, competition, 2000 Schadekgasse, PPAG Office and Apartment, 2000 Climatic Wind Tunnel, 2000 - 2002 Electric Avenue/quartier21, MuseumsQuartier, 2001 - 2002; all in Vienna.
Planned: Glanzinggasse Housing (competition, 1st prize), 1999 Europan 6 (competition, 1st prize), 2001; all in Vienna Rosenauerstraße Housing, Linz, 2002 - 2005
Exhibitions, lectures, publications: The Scent of Architecture, Moscow, Venice, Buenos Aires, Budapest, Vienna, 1998 - 2000 Young European Architects, Biennale di Venezia and Buenos Aires, 2000 Lectures at the MIT, Cambridge, and ESARQ Barcelona in 2000; University of Applied Arts Vienna 2000 PPAG – Das Buch (2 volumes), 2001/02
Knights of the 3-D Chessboard Chess is the infinite potentiality of strategic constellations on a grid field. Knights are not the most powerful, yet perhaps the most dynamic chess pieces. Unlike other actors, they advance into the third dimension while clearing pieces in front and may move around with short darts to as many as eight different squares. The spatial quality in PPAG's architecture unfolds from similar moves vaulting to exceed the conventional zonings of surfaces and levels. Their buildings show horizontally and vertically flexed sectional areas.
The L-forms are either packed into one another in a mirrored fashion or arranged in spirals around a midline. Spatial structure is also created subtractively, meandering ways both hollowing out and unlocking a given volume. Ever since the early 1990s, PPAG have produced complex cuts and surprising spatial sequences based on the simplest of geometries. Their spatial loops developed independently from the foldings, splicings or interweavings of surfaces associated with a fashion that has since come to be rife. [...]
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