Denkräume / thinking spaces: the exhibition El Lissitzky and more projects by the next ENTERprise Architects
Lecture by Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs
the next ENTERprise Architects was founded in Vienna in 2000 by Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs and Ernst J. Fuchs. Their projects range from buildings, installations, exhibition design and experimental interventions in the cityscape to urban design concepts. tnE Architects believe that space truly discovers its function upon being used. This way of thinking opens up a discourse in which concepts and spatial strategies - as related to unforeseeable, future needs and developments- play a key role. The programmatic and spatial limits of their buildings and concepts are conceived with a consciously high level of permeability on the basis of the performative potential of architecture and the interplay between space, atmosphere, context and user.
Key projects including the Wolkenturm Grafenegg (AT), Kaltern lakeside swimming baths (IT), the project HAWI – Experimental Temporary Living (AT), the installations Audiolounge and Noeklius – informed sculpture and the recently completed museum of the Heidi Horten Collection (AT) has been published internationally and exhibited in locations including ArchiLab Orléans (FR), the Secession Wien (AT), the São Paolo Biennale (BR), Galerie Aedes Berlin (DE), Manifesta 7 Rovereto (IT), Mackey Garages MAK Los Angeles (USA) and the Venice Biennale (IT).
Their projects have been awarded and nominated several times for the Mies van der Rohe Award, among others. Most recently they received the renowned Hans Hollein Art Prize for Architecture for their work.
Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs has been active as a juror, lecturer and teacher at home and abroad and was appointed Professor of Design and Building Theory at the University of Kassel (DE) in 2018. She is currently a member of the art advisory board of the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft BIG, a board member of the Architekturstiftung Österreich and a member of the Transdisciplinary Research Centre for Exhibition Studies TRACES at the University of Kassel.
The lecture will be in cooperation between the Kestner Gesellschaft and the BDA Hannover.