bread spring 2018 : Andreas Bründler + Clemens Russ

On Thursday, June 7, 2018, at 19:30, the last lecture of this year's spring lecture series "Another Perspective" will take place at the CAMP (Center for Architecture and Urban Planning) at Vyšehradská 51 in Prague.

Andreas Bründler / Buchner Bründler Architekten (CH): Mutace / Mutations + Clemens Russ / QUERKRAFT architekten (A)

How are projects built in Switzerland and Austria? How do urban construction and private development influence each other? And how do architectural competitions function abroad? Our June lecture guests Andreas Bründler and Clemens Russ will answer not only these questions. We warmly invite you to the last lecture of the spring series "Another Perspective"!

Active participation in competitions and direct commissions for private constructions are part of the everyday work of architects around the world. Andreas Bründler will discuss how Buchner Bründler architekten approaches these projects. The studio has in its portfolio, for instance, the Swiss Pavilion for EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, the Volta Centre multifunctional building project in Basel, or an unconventional residential building in the Alps, where the main role is played by the merging with nature. All of these realizations were based on competitions.

The second speaker will be Austrian architect Clemens Russ from the Querkraft studio based in Vienna. The studio represented Austria at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2004 and has received several prestigious awards for its work. At the lecture, he will present selected projects – from administrative buildings to social housing.
The lecture will be in German, translated into Czech.
The lecture is held in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague.
Admission is 100 CZK, reduced 80 CZK.

Andreas Bründler
With 20 years of experience, Buchner Bründler Architects have completed a series of projects that appear massive from the outside, have elaborate details, and are precisely crafted. They reflect an approach to society that transcends conventions and seek answers to our common way of life today and in the future.
Many buildings have come about as a result of active participation in competitions. The studio considers competitions as a research component of its practice, during which they experiment with new ways of using materials, discover new possibilities for contemporary constructions, and develop their typological knowledge. The central theme of all their work is the consideration of the city as a built form and a living organism. Working in the urban space requires contextual thinking.
Direct commissions for private constructions are also an important part of the studio's work. The smaller scale of such projects allows for a shift in priorities, leading to new possibilities. Internal depth replaces external complexity. Smaller houses are concentrated creations of their architectural thinking and actions. And the transformation of one's own spatial focus is significant.
The lecture will explore the influences and interactions of these two areas, small projects and urban projects, through the comparison of contrasting pairs from the work of Buchner Bründler: How conceptual approaches are sought and tested, how they mature in the process of further development, and how they establish new themes in architecture.

Clemens Russ
The second foreign guest coming to the June lecture will be Clemens Russ from the Austrian studio Querkraft architekten. Founded in 1998 by Jakob Dunkl, Gerd Erhartt, Peter Sappa, and Michael Zinner, graduates of the Technical University of Vienna, their portfolio includes a wide range of buildings from industrial structures to administrative buildings, shops, family houses, and affordable housing projects. Their projects are often awarded in architectural competitions. In 2002, they received the Austrian architectural award Bauherrenpreis, in 2004 the prestigious British award for young European architects "Young Architect of the Year"; and in 2016 the City of Vienna Award. The studio represented Austria at the Biennale in Venice in 2004.

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