Carlo Baumschlager, Dietmar Eberle

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The most western state of Austria has an architecture of its own.

Buildings in wood, and with them privately constructed buildings, are popular. The detached house is here by far the most popular form of housing.
Small, reasonably-priced housing developments with compact, flat-roofed buildings and detached houses were therefore the first building projects by which the team Baumschlager/Eberle could distinguish themselves. Characteristic of the team’s architectonic concept: strict economy with respect to material and artistic/architectonic means and a high sense of cultural and social responsibility. Baumschlager/Eberle are among the busiest architects in Vorarlberg.

Since the middle of the eighties they have completed 150 projects and the scope of the building projects undertaken has vastly widened. The team no longer plans just detached houses and small housing developments: large multi-storied buildings, office blocks and industrial buildings, schools, community centres, shopping centres and even a hotel are among the projects realized.

This volume presents a selection of the most important buildings undertaken during the last ten years. The writer on architecture and director of the Architektur Zentrum Wien, Dietmar Steiner, has written a knowledgeable introduction and in an interview with the architects Liesbeth Waechter-Böhm discusses in depth the statement of Dietmar Eberle, "Architecture is the management of resources”.