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Unbuildable Tatlin?!

Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument for the Third International (1919) is certainly one of the most significant projects of Soviet Constructivism. It is, however, not at all certain whether “Tatlin’s Tower” could even be built at all at the time it was originally planned. And whether it would be constructed today with the presently available means and possibilities of planning, calculating and processing materials is equally uncertain.

The seminar Structural Design 3 with Professor Klaus Bollinger focused on these reflections at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The preliminary answers and assumptions are summed up in the present volume.

Complementing the works by students, texts by Klaus Bollinger, Frank Werner, Florian Medicus, Gabriele Werner, Georg Glaeser and Frank Gruber provide an overview of the theoretical, historical, constructive and geometric relevance of Vladimir Tatlin’s work and the architect’s intentions.

Awarded as the most beautiful book of Austria 2012 (Schönste Bücher Österreichs 2012)

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IoA Studios Hadid Lynn Prix Selected Student Works 2009

The renowned Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna presents selected student works from 2009. The design studios of star architects Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn and Wolf D. Prix offer students countless possibilities to exhaust architectural parameters across borders. The open studio structure, which enables students to work on the same topics from their first term up to their graduation, creates dynamics, which would not be possible at this scale in a conventional study structure.

In addition to these three design studios the IoA offers the  Cross Over Studio, in 2009 headed by Francois Roche, which gives a small group of students access to external aspiring architects for one term further enhancing the already exceptional spectrum of projects.

The departments of Structural Design and Energy Design, with their advanced technologies, support the architectural education at the Angewandte.

The present pictures should serve as am inspiration and let us hope for a new dynamic generation of architects.

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Total Fluidity, Studio Zaha Hadid Projects 2000-2010

"Total Fluidity" collects 10 years of academic design research conducted at the Zaha Hadid master-class at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Under the leadership of Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher the studio developed a distinct contribution to the emerging style of Parametricism. All elements of architecture become fluid, ready to engage with each other and with divers contexts leading to an overall intensification of relations. This style is architecture’s response to 21st Century network society. The radicality and consistency with which this style is being pursued across all scales and programmes results in an impressive body of work. Academic design research can go deeper and farther than professional work in probing the consequences of a radical design hypothesis. Within academia architects can be more experimental. They can afford to be more principled and more self-critical, avoiding pragmatic compromises. The creative work of the Zaha Hadid Vienna studio testifies to this.

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Vienna Architecture Conference 2010 / Architecture Live 7

99+ IoA Studios Hadid Lynn Prix Selected Student Works 2004-8

The renowned Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna presents selected student works from 2004-8. The design studios of star architects Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn and Wolf D. Prix offer students countless possibilities to exhaust architectural parameters across borders. The open studio structure, which enables students to work on the same topics from their first term up to their graduation, creates dynamics, which would not be possible at this scale in a conventional study structure.

In addition to these three design studios the IoA offers the  Cross Over Studio, which gives a small group of students access to external aspiring architects for one term further enhancing the already exceptional spectrum of projects. Peters Sellars, Kivi Sotamaa and Hernan Diaz Alonso have successfully developed new typologies of architecture together with the students from the cross over studio.

The departments of Structural Design and Energy Design, with their advanced technologies, support the architectural education at the Angewandte.

The present pictures should serve as am inspiration and let us hope for a new dynamic generation of architects.

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Techo en Mexico -The Mexican Roof Revisited 2009

In 2004, seven students from the studio of Wolf D. Prix at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna built a roof as an architectural landmark for a sustainable agriculture institution in the south of Mexico.

Five years later, the authors of the project met up with international architects in Oaxaca to discuss the relationship between aesthetics, resource awareness, and energy design in architecture at the “Sustainability versus Aesthetics” conference.

The publication summarizes the lectures given by Raimund Abraham, Rozana Montiel, Wolf D. Prix, Carl Pruscha, Michael Rotondi, Mauricio Rocha in autumn 2009, adding personal statements from all those involved. In their conversation on experimental building, Wolf D. Prix and Günther Feuerstein cover the period from the 1960s to realization of the “Techo en Mexico”.

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Visual Catalog: Greg Lynn's Studio at the University of Applied Arts Un

The Visual Catalog documents the specific design innovations developed by undergraduate students over the last five years in Studio Greg Lynn at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Each chapter formulates a specific architectural technique by combining theoretical texts and design work from the studio. Included with these design techniques are reference images from contemporary design culture and analysis of historical precedents. Visual Catalog: Greg Lynn’s Studio at the University of Applied Arts Vienna is a glossy, graphically rich monograph of research and design that will appeal to both students and practitioners.

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Prinz Eisenbeton 5, Techo en Mexico

"The Mexican Roof", architektonisches Wahrzeichen einer Organisation für ökologische Landwirtschaft, ist eines der wenigen Beispiele in denen ein äußerst ambitioniertes Projekt, entworfen von Studenten des Studios a3, Institut für Architektur der Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, unter der Leitung von Professor Wolf D. Prix, erfolgreich realisiert wurde. In einem ersten Schritt wurde das Projekt in Wien ausgearbeitet um dann in einer abgeschiedenen Provinz Mexikos von den Studenten mit Hilfe lokaler Kräfte selbst gebaut zu werden. Das beeindruckende Ergebnis ist ein Dach aus dem Baustoff Bambus, das einerseits Schatten spendet und vor Sonne schützt, gleichzeitig aber Regenwasser sammelt, das der Bewässerung der Pflanzungen dient. Das Buch dokumentiert den Entstehungsprozess in Wien wie auch den spannenden Bauprozess vor Ort in Mexiko. Ein Werk, das nicht nur für Studenten und Lehrende wertvoll ist, sondern eine Bereicherung für jeden darstellt, der am Zusammentreffen unterschiedlicher Kulturen und dem Potential architektonischer Formen interessiert ist.

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Prinz Eisenbeton 6, Rock over Barock, Young and Beautiful: 7+2

The spatial concepts characteristic of the Baroque period are to be seen influencing the architecture of today, too. Baroque architecture is an experience in itself; unfolding its means gradually, almost defying any attempt to constrain it; cultivating the unexpected and in so doing, gaining its freedom. Rock aims at doing the same. It almost impudently takes up traditional ideas and puts them into a new context. Consciously or not, young architects trace and change the spatial sequences of the Baroque to their liking, bringing them up-to-date. The work of seven young offices, Artec, Urs Bette, Delugan Meissl, the next ENTERprise, Klaus Stattmann, stiefel kramer, Wolfgang Tschapeller, and two projects by students, Sophie Grell, Tercer Piso Arquitectos at the University of Applied Arts Vienna demonstrate that there is an Austrian tradition in architecture: a collective desire to celebrate space.

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Prinz Eisenbeton 2

"Prinz Eisenbeton 2” is the third catalogue produced by the Wolf D. Prix master class at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and represents three years of debate on the problems facing architecture today. In addition to a generous presentation in illustrated form of projects, workshops, competitions and excursions giving an insight into the students’ eagerness to experiment, the texts of lectures given to back up the projects arranged each semester complete the broad spectrum of activities. At a time when the study of architecture is being revolutionized, this rich three-year compendium of the work of a master class conveys that it is innovative, experimental architecture that is being fought for.

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