Name: querkraft – livin’ architecture / Architektur leben
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ISBN: 9783035618792

Zum 20-jährigen Bestehen des Wiener Architekturbüros querkraft erscheint die erste Monografie über das bisherige Werk. Es zeichnet sich durch unkonventionelle und poesiereiche Bauten und Gestaltungen aus, denen das kritische Hinterfragen von Aufgaben zugrunde liegt und eine Pragmatik, die nicht im Widerspruch zu mutigen Lösungen steht. Neben der Dokumentation der wichtigsten Arbeiten erzählt das Buch anekdotenreich die querkraft-Geschichte. Die Architekten geben in ungewohnter Offenheit nicht nur die Geheimnisse von zwei Jahrzehnten freundschaftlicher Zusammenarbeit im Kollektiv preis, sondern gewähren auch Einblick in die Berufswirklichkeit des Architektendaseins. Unter den aktuellen Arbeiten: das erste autofreie Ikea-Möbelhaus in Wien, ein Wohnkomplex in Paris und das Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt.

The 20th anniversary of the Vienna architecture office querkraft is being marked by the publication of a first monograph about its work to date. It features unconventional and poetic buildings and designs, underlain by critical questioning tasks and a pragmatism that does not contradict bold solutions. In addition to documenting querkraft’s most important works, the book is full of anecdotes about its office history. The architects are unusually open, not only revealing the secrets behind two decades of friendly collaboration in their collective practice, but also granting insight into the professional reality of working as an architect. querkraft’s current works include the first car-free Ikea furniture store in Vienna, a residential complex in Paris, and the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt.

querkraft – livin’ architecture / Architektur leben

<UL> <LI>Freimütige Einblicke in Freuden und Leiden des Architektendaseins anhand einer anekdotenreichen Bürogeschichte</LI> <LI>Querdenken für unkonventionelle Lösungen</LI> <LI>Ausführliche Dokumentation wichtiger Bauten </LI></UL>

<UL> <LI>Candid insights into the joys and woes of working as an architect, told as an office history full of anecdotes</LI> <LI>Lateral thinking for unconventional solutions</LI> <LI>Comprehensive documentation of important buildings </LI> </UL>

Franziska Leeb, Kunsthistorikerin u. freie Architekturpublizistin, Wien Gabriele Lenz, Gestalterin, New Design University St. Pölten

Franziska Leeb, art historian and architecture journalist, Vienna Gabriele Lenz, designer, New Design University St. Pölten

Unconventional architecture The 20th anniversary of the Vienna architecture office querkraft is being marked by the publication of a first monograph about its work to date. It features unconventional and poetic buildings and designs, underlain by critical questioning tasks and a pragmatism that does not contradict bold solutions.   In addition to documenting querkraft’s most important works, the book is full of anecdotes about its office history. The architects are unusually open, not only revealing the secrets behind two decades of friendly collaboration in their collective practice, but also granting insight into the professional reality of working as an architect. querkraft’s current works include the first car-free Ikea furniture store in Vienna, a residential complex in Paris, and the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt.  Candid insights into the joys and woes of working as an architect, told as an office history full of anecdotes Lateral thinking for unconventional solutions Comprehensive documentation of important buildings  

Unconventional architecture The 20th anniversary of the Vienna architecture office querkraft is being marked by the publication of a first m

querkraft – livin’ architecture / Architektur leben

Edited by: Franziska Leeb, Gabriele Lenz