Szyszkowitz – Kowalski

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ISBN: 9783868590333
English/German edition
Jovis Verlag
Hardcover, 312 pages
24 x 32 cm
colour
May 2010
€46,98 (excl. VAT)

Szyszkowitz – Kowalski

Architecture 1994–2010

Frank Rolf Werner Ed(s)

For decades, buildings by the team of Graz-based architects Szyszkowitz + Kowalski have graced contemporary architecture with their vital, unmistakable formal language and their new building typologies untrammelled by closed systems. The architects’ œuvre enjoys world-wide recognition and has done so for many years.

This publication deals with buildings and projects dating from 1994–2010, but also includes older seminal works. Analytical essays by Frank R. Werner on topics including narrative, layers, transformation, translocation, dynamics, resistance, congruence, landscape and added value explain the design strategies behind the works. It is no coincidence that buildings by Karla Kowalski and Michael Szyszkowitz are among the most outstanding achievements in contemporary architecture, independent of debates about style or local reference.