Rüdiger Lainer, Vienna
By means of 6 buildings and a selection of projects, this exhibition by Rüdiger Lainer illustrates the connections between the form/content relationship and the topology of surface and volume.
Atmospherically charged layers of varying depths compose the envelope of a given building, merging space, program and structural principle into a unified architectonic form.
The resultant structures are in part many meters in depth, linking exteriors with interiors, and in part reinterpret their contexts as thin layers.
These structures, readable in terms of ornament, articulate language, form and meaning as sensuous elements. Ornament may be essentially externally appended decoration, with its own autonomy and iconography, and bearing little or no relation to underlying structure; such a configuration was condemned by Loos in his 1908 text "Ornament and Crime.”
But as developed here, ornament can also derive from the logic and structure of an architectural program as a highly specific and singular expression of differentiation. Thus interpreted, ornament becomes an enthralling element of architecture, mediating between user and object and creating exceptional qualities for residential and other functions.
An additional associated theme of the exhibited projects is the superposition of the artificial and the natural, of the "artificial-natural” and the "natural-artificial,” of proliferating and solidified façades, of hanging gardens and passable color spaces — nature in the city, as constitutive of both urban structures and individual buildings.
The installation of 1:1 scale original materials in the exhibition is intended the offer a tangible impression of the sensuous qualities of the actual buildings, thereby enhancing architectonic by means of the atmospheric.
The featured projects (residential/office block, Boltzmanngasse/Vienna; apartment building, Cobenzlgasse/Vienna; entertainment center Gasometer/ Vienna; reconstruction/conversion, offices/fitness center, Hütteldorferstrasse/ Vienna; cinema center, Salzburg; residential/commercial building, Wiedner Hauptstrasse/ Vienna) embody various scales, diverse contexts, and a multiplicity of programs.
Speaking at the opening will be:
Kristin Feireiss, Berlin
Dietmar Steiner (Direktor des AzW
Martin Schwanzer, Wien
Diese Ausstellung wurde ermöglicht mit der großzügigen Unterstützung von:
