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Architektur beginnt im Kopf. The Making of Architecture

Architekturzentrum Wien
Eröffnung 15. Oktober 2008 bis 4. Februar 2009
Kuratorin und wissenschaftliche Leiterin seit 2006.

Ausgestellt werden eine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Aufarbeitung der Werkzeuge der Architekturproduktion im dialektischen Zusammenspiel mit den individuierten Entwurfsmethodologien und Werkzeugverwendungsweisen folgender Ateliers und Büros:

Alvar Aalto, Lina Bo Bardi, Bow-Wow, Hermann Czech, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Edge Design Institute, Yona Friedman, Antoni Gaudí, Lux Guyer, Steven Holl Architects, Lacaton & Vassal, Rudolf Olgiati, Charlotte Perriand, R&Sie(n), Schwalm-Theiss, Karl Schwanzer, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP SOM, The Jerde Partnership, UNStudio, VSBA Venturi Scott Brown & Associates

Architektur beginnt im Kopf
The Making of Architecture

Architekturzentrum Wien – Old hall
October 16.2008 – February 02.2009

“Architects even resort to guns when it comes to firing their creative genius.” Falter, 21.11.08

Whereas in one Parisian architect’s studio shots are fired at a clay block, in another orchids are raised. In Zurich an architect reclined in her bed with a wooden set-square, in Hong Kong thoughts are crystallised with pieces of Lego. This exhibition tells about the very different ways in which architects use their various tools, from the pencil to the computer.
Alvar Aalto / Lina Bo Bardi / Atelier Bow-Wow / Hermann Czech / Diller Scofidio + Renfro / Edge Design Institute / Yona Friedman / Antoni Gaudí / The Jerde Partnership / Lux Guyer / Steven Holl Architects / Lacaton & Vassal / Rudolf Olgiati / Charlotte Perriand / R&Sie(n) / Theiss & Jaksch/Schwalm-Theiss / Karl Schwanzer / SOM Skidmore, Owings & Merrill / UNStudio / Venturi Scott Brown & Associates: these 20 offices were researched over a period of more than two years. Documentary photographs show the way things really look there, and each studio presents the development of one project by means of sketches or models. Statements by the architects themselves about their design methods and sources of inspiration deepen these un-usual insights in the working world of architecture.

The catalogue ’The Force is in the Mind. The Making of Architecture’ is published in German and in English: Birkhäuser Verlag, ISBN : 978-3-7643-8980-2, Paperback, 188 S. – 24,0 x 19,5 cm, Einband – flex.(Paperback), Erscheinungsdatum : 1. Aufl. 17.10.2008

Curator: Elke Krasny
Project coordination, research assistance: Gudrun Hausegger
Research assistance: Robert Temel
Scenography: Alexandra Maringer, Assistent: Bernadette Krejs
Setting: Dietlind Rott
Exhibitiondesign: Thomas Kussin, buero8