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Artware Edition
Architektur
(german language version)
   
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Aedes Galerie
Artware Consulting
Raimund Abraham
Raimund Abraham: AZW
Raimund Abraham
Coop Himmelb(l)au
Domenig
Domenig: Concert
Eichinger oder Knechtl
Massimiliano Fuksas
Zvi Hecker
Herzog & De Meuron
Rüdiger Lainer
Daniel Libeskind
Morphosis
Eric Owen Moss
 

Artware Edition Architecture

Artware AG/Galerie Aedes East, Berlin (Ed.)
Catalogue
german/english
Wien-Berlin 2000

Catalogue for the Exhibition at the Gallery Aedes East, Berlin, 1999/2000

With a Preface by Christian Reder / Curator Artware-Edition Architecture.
Introduction by Kristin Feireiss/Galerie Aedes and Raimund Deininger/Artware AG.
With Contributions by Raimund Abraham, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Günther Domenig, Eichinger oder Knechtl, Massimiliano Fuksas, Zvi Hecker, Herzog & De Meuron, Rüdiger Lainer, Daniel Libeskind, Miralles & Tagliabue, Morphosis/Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Carme Pinós, Lebbeus Woods.

 

 

 

 

Preface

According to Le Corbusier's famous phrase, architecture is "the knowing, magnificent and ordering play of volumes gathered under the light".

Artware Edition Architektur intends to make these volumes more accessible by facilitating insights into the process of their creation. That which will become a space, a form in space, a structure, is as yet only a series of pictures - a series of details from defining positions of architectural thinking which identify a present moment in relation to potential future opportunities. Due to the fact that they are available in the form of drawings, it is possible to consider these questions more extensively. Considerations leading to building, to the art of architecture, become apparent as first sketches of ideas, as approaches to a program, as abstractions, as provisional concepts, as specified details.

In a world determined by film and photography, the drawing offers its own opportunities - chances for spontaneity, careful attention or temporary indecision. Much is still open, nothing finally fixed. The project is evolving. One part may represent many other parts, or the germ-cell of a whole.

First tentative ideas, still evasive, are put on paper. Intermediate stages illustrate the methodical complexity, the steps taken from initial concept to final plan. Dimensions, penetrations, surfaces, materials are assigned their various functions. Precision is expressed as an all encompassing approach to formal qualities or as a faithful-to-detail assemblage. The pencil, felt-pen or nib designs finally change into computer printouts, being translated into 'pre-conceived' mathematics in the process. Originally not intended for public display, they offer insights into the inner world and workings of a design process. lf and when public interest is attracted to such design processes, architecture can enter into a wider awareness as a claim to quality. Living with carefully edited graphic renderings of architecture should contribute to people feeling such intense sensibilities. At the same time, the drawings are illustrations of how to deal with highly complex design problems, something rarely perceived outside the architectural profession. The mental steps from conception to implementation - entailing the coordination of various demands, techniques and specialities - assume exemplary character in the drawings documenting the process.

The architects who were invited to contribute to Artware Edition Architektur, are also exemplary for their visionary philosophy. The respect they have for each other was an essential criterion for the selection of the contributors .

The drawings and production methods for the artworks were selected jointly, based on the consensus that this edition is to be conceived as a stimulus for its viewers' discerning consideration of architecture - and of practical construction.

Translation: Annette Wiethüchter, Berlin

 

 
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