Project Specs Nordwesthaus Fussach, Austria Baumschlager Eberle << Return to article the People Architect Baumschlager Eberle Lochau ZT GmbH Lindauer Strasse 31 6911 Lochau Austria Tel.: +43 5574 43079-0 Fax: +43 5574 43079-30 Christoph von Oefele, project architect Consultant(s) Building technology: GMI Ing. Peter Messner GmbH, Dornbirn/Austria Structural engineer: Mader + Flatz, Bregenz, Austria Façade: Glas Marte GmbH, Bregenz, Austria Superstructure: Oberhauser-Schedler Bau, Andelsbuch, Austria Illumination: Ledon Lighting GmbH, Lustenau, Austria Photographer Eduard Hueber + Ines Leong / archphoto.com Eduard Hueber Arch Photo, Inc. 109 South 5th Street, Suite 401 Brooklyn NY 11211-5501 USA Tel: +1-212-941 9294 CAD system, project
Project Specs MUMUTH Music Theater Graz, Austria UNStudio << Return to article the People Architect UNStudio Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos with Hannes Pfau and Miklos Deri, Kirsten Hollmann, Markus Berger, Florian Pischetsrieder, Uli Horner, Albert Gnodde, Peter Trummer, Maarten van Tuijl, Matthew Johnston, Mike Green, Monica Pacheco, Ger Gijzen, Wouter de Jonge Engineering: Arup London: Cecil Balmond, Volker Schmid, Charles Walker, Francis Archer Consultants: Engineering execution: Peter Mandl ZT GmbH Structural Engineering, Arge Statik, Graz Specifications: Housinc Bauconsult GmbH, Vienna Electrical: Klauss Elektro – Anlagen Planungsgesellschaft m.b.H. Acoustic and Building Physics: ZT Gerhard Tomberger, Graz. Pro Acoustic Engineering Thorsten Rohde,
In the daytime, unStudio’s Haus für Musik und Musiktheater (MUMUTH) is a mysterious presence among historic houses on Lichtenfelsgasse Street in Graz, Austria’s second-largest city.
Mautern, Austria Christoph Mayrhofer Architect Apparently, even in a place like Mautern, Austria, just 37 miles west of Vienna and a few hundred yards from the Danube, there are dreary, poorly constructed homes. Designing something special in a zone of such drab single-family houses and apartment complexes was the dilemma facing Austrian architect Christoph Mayrhofer. His clients, two high-school teachers, had originally been looking for what Mayrhofer calls a “catalogue” house—much like the partially prefabricated build-to-order houses offered by homebuilders in the U.S.—but couldn’t find anything that struck them. Their requirements were simple: Enough room for the husband’s 4,000 books
Apparently, even in a place like Mautern, Austria, just 37 miles west of Vienna and a few hundred yards from the Danube, there are dreary, poorly constructed homes.
One of the limitations of relying on images to explain architecture is that the practice can sometimes encourage viewers to see buildings primarily as objects.
Josef Hoffmann’s Pruckersdorf Sanatorium of 1904 was a functional and aesthetic masterpiece that might have set a precedent for hospitals in Austria—but didn’t.
