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Stefan Wewerka : architect, designer, object artist ; Architekt, Designer, Objektkünstler

By: Volker Fischer,Stefan Wewerka,Andrea Gleiniger

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Stefan Wewerka : architect, designer, object artist ; Architekt, Designer, Objektkünstler

By: Volker Fischer,Stefan Wewerka,Andrea Gleiniger

Text in English and German. The oeuvre of Stefan Wewerka occupies a unique position in post-war art because of the way in which he mixes different genres. Wewerka is an 'uomo universale', an uncomfortable pedagogue, a bringer of enlightenment. In addition to his practical work as an architect -- his competition entries have had a lasting effect on architectural discourse -- he has alienated architecture photographically or with the aid of traditional artistic techniques, has written books, has painted pictures, has made films and object art. In the early 50s Wewerka involved himself in earth architecture -- early attempts to build with nature and not against it -- and this at a time when no one was talking about ecology or even green building. Wewerka became known to a wider public in the 60s by the artistic allenation of chairs and other everyday objects, which he sawed up or distorted in order to undermine familiar images subversively. He also did not leave architectural 'high culture' untouched. Triumphal arches like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris or Gothic cathedrals heel over or buckle to form surreal structures and thus make their ideological claims questionable. In the late 70s Wewerka also started to design furniture which had high utility value despite its free form and which emanate an almost Bauhaus-like dignity. All this furniture, like the Fan Desk, the three-legged chair or the One-Swinger, and also his Kitchen Tree and the programmatic Cella furniture system stand like sculptures in the space and always derive a new and surprising variant from subjects and genres that seemed to be closed. The internationally known architecture and design historian Volker Fischer was vice director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt for over 10 years. For some time now he has been building up a new design department in the Museum fur Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt; in addition to his museum work he teaches history of architecture and design at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Offenbach. Like Volker Fischer, architectural historian Andrea Gleiniger worked for many years in the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt; she now teaches at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Karisruhe. Her principal working fields are the history of housing estates in the 20th century and the relationship between architecture, art and the new media.

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Architekten Schweger + Partner

Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

By: Andrea Gleiniger,Bernhard Kroll

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Architekten Schweger + Partner

Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

By: Andrea Gleiniger,Bernhard Kroll

In 1997, the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie moved into a former munitions factory, built in 1918. Hamburg architects, Schweger + Partner, were commissioned to convert this industrial structure. The result is unique, as a dialogue was initiated between the four-story factory with its extensive atria and its new users.

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Complexity

Design Strategy and World View

By: Andrea Gleiniger,Georg Vrachliotis

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Complexity

Design Strategy and World View

By: Andrea Gleiniger,Georg Vrachliotis

Digitalization has transformed the discourse of architecture: that discourse is now defined by a wealth of new terms and concepts that previously either had no meaning, or had different meanings, in the context of architectural theory and design. Its concepts and strategies are increasingly shaped by influences emerging at the intersection with scientific and cultural notions from modern information technology. The series Context Architecture seeks to take a critical selection of concepts that play a vital role in the current discourse and put them up for discussion. When Vitruvius described the architect as a "uomo universale," he gave rise to the architect’s conception of him- or herself as a generalist who shapes a complex reality. The architectural concept of complexity, however, failed to keep pace with industrial and social reality, becoming instead an increasingly formal and superficial notion that could ultimately be applied to almost anything. Against it, architectural modernism set the watchword of simplification: "less is more." In this situation, Robert Venturi reintroduced the notion of complexity into architectural discourse: his goal was not just to restore the complexity of architectonic forms and their history but also to explore the concrete reality of the existing built environment. Today it is complexity studies, with their starting point in physics, that define the current approach to the concept of complexity. They have established a new connection between the natural sciences and information technology and have thus become a central premise of computer-based approaches to design.

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Stefan Wewerka : architect, designer, object artist ; Architekt, Designer, Objektkünstler

By: Volker Fischer,Stefan Wewerka,Andrea Gleiniger

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By: Volker Fischer,Stefan Wewerka,Andrea Gleiniger

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