SEARCHING FOR TRACES, EXPERIENCING BOUNDARIES 12 QUESTIONS - 12 ANSWERS 6 PLACES
Twelve questions are to be answered by a maximum of twelve participants at six places within the confines of the estate using architectonic media.
Searching with all the senses and precisely answering the questions, boundaries are to be recognised and in some cases crossed.
In the context of a joint one-day excursion, searching for traces and experiencing boundaries will lead to answers.
Architecture, questions, places and answers interrelate in both simple and complex ways, some yet to be investigated.
The architecture will be employed as a transboundary medium to sharpen the perception of new or longstanding phenomena of life, often concealed or taken for granted, such as light and shadow, height and depth, fire and water, air and earth, speech and writing, sound and silence.
The built answer will emerge at the end.
Brückner + Brückner Architekten
"Planning and building is a comprehensive communication process. The way people and things are examined and investigated makes this process a "culture". There isn't an established formula. Each building project calls for and develops new communication networks and media. You have to repeatedly push up against and go beyond the boundaries."
"We seek to directly examine the location and the people and pursue ongoing dialogue. For us, planning is a promise that needs to be made fulfilled; the planning concept and the built reality are inseparable from one another."
Peter Brückner, born in 1962 in Tirschenreuth, completed his architectural studies at the Technical University of Munich and founded the architectural and engineering firm Brückner & Brückner in 1990 together with his father Klaus-Peter Brückner. His younger brother Christian (born in 1971 in Tirschenreuth) joined the firm in 1996 after having completed his studies in architecture at the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart.
During the 2003 summer semester, the two brothers taught as guest professors at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. In addition, Peter Brückner has been a member of the architectural advisory board of the City of Augsburg since 2004.
Two of their most well-known buildings are Würzburg Kulturspeicher, renovated and expanded from 1996 to 2001, and the Meeting Place at the German-Czech border, both of which have been recognised with numerous national and international awards, including several BDA prizes, the 2003 German Architecture Prize as well as commendation by the ar+d award jury the same year.
Their projects have been shown in various solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe: the 2002 solo exhibition "The Kulturspeicher - Process and Work" at the Deutsches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt, a group exhibition during the 2003 Hamburg Architecture Summer and most recently in 2004 at the 9th International Architecture Biennale in Venice with a contribution for the German pavilion "Deutschlandscape - Epicentres at the Periphery". |
