Architecture and Vision

Architecture and Vision (AV) is an architecture and design studio. It specializes in project development and technology transfer between aerospace engineering and architecture . The studio was founded in 2003 by the two architects Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler with offices in Bomarzo / Viterbo (Italy) and Munich (Germany).

founder

Andreas Vogler (born January 15, 1964 in Basel ), after studying art history and literature for several semesters, worked as an interior designer at Alinea AG in Basel. From 1988 to 1994 he studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He spent an exchange semester at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence (RISD) in the USA and graduated with a project for an energy-self-sufficient, prefabricated weather station on the Weissfluhjoch. In 1995 he worked at Ingenhoven Architects in Düsseldorf and from 1995 to 1996 at Richard Horden Associates, now Horden Cherry Lee Architects in London. He then worked as a research assistant at Professor Horden's institute at the Technical University of Munich until 2002 . There he taught micro-architecture, initiated and directed various design semesters on the subject of space architecture. The housing module on board the International Space Station in cooperation with NASA and future housing modules on Mars were examined . The participating students had the opportunity to test their prototypes in parabolic flights in the NASA Johnson Space Center . During his work at the Technical University of Munich, Vogler published various works on space architecture and won several prizes in architecture competitions. From 2003 to 2005 he researched and taught as a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen on the subject of “prefabricated building”. In 2004 he taught at The University of Hong Kong . From 2005 to 2006 he was a member of the Concept House research group at the Delft University of Technology in Delft. He is a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects ByAK Bavarian Chamber of Architects , the Deutscher Werkbund Deutscher Werkbund , and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics .

After studying Fine Arts in Viterbo, Arturo Vittori began studying architecture at the University of Florence . He completed this after 2 years of study at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany in 1996 with an award-winning diploma thesis “ International Space Station - Traveling Network”. Vittori later gained experience in the architectural offices Jourda Architects in 1997, Duepiù France in 1998, Santiago Calatrava in 2000 and Jean Nouvel in 2001. In 2002 he worked as a manager for cabin design at Airbus in Tolouse, where he worked on the interior design of cabins for various airlines Especially for the Airbus A380 , currently the largest aircraft in existence, contributed. In 2005 he worked at Future Systems and worked with Anish Kapoor on the design of the Monte Sant'Angelo subway station in Naples . In 2006 he worked for Francis Design's yacht design office in London . He is a member of the Ordine degli Architetti della Provincia di Viterbo and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics .

philosophy

The abbreviation AV corresponds to the initials of the founders. The name Architecture and Vision stands for the founders' conviction that architecture needs a vision of the future in order to make a long-term cultural contribution of its time. The studio wants to improve quality of life through the sensible use of technology and available resources in order to achieve a harmonious integration of people , technology and nature . The projects are intended to translate this vision into architecture and the built environment. Mobility , sustainability , use of local resources and ergonomics together with an individual aesthetic appearance are important models of the projects.

Workspace

The studio uses modern information technology and the Internet to work on different projects in an interdisciplinary manner. The fields of activity include architecture, space architecture , transportation , urban planning , furniture design , design of consumer electronics to multimedia -Kunstinstallationen. AV works for airlines, space agencies, public institutions, universities and foundations, companies and private builders. Recent assignments include projects with ESA , Asiana Airlines , Aero Sekur, the BirdHouse Foundation, GVM Carrara and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

AV have given lectures on space architecture and technology transfer and sustainability in architecture at international conferences . In 2008 they taught a design semester in industrial design at La Sapienza University in Rome and at Iuav University in Venice.

Exhibitions

2007: “MoonBaseTwo” (inflatable moon station) is added to the collection of the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago
2007: "Airs de Paris", Center Georges Pompidou in Paris: "MarsCruiserOne", project for a manned Mars rover
2006: “DesertSeal” is added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York
2006: " Leonardo da Vinci : Man, Inventor, Genius" at the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago
2005: "SAFE: Design Takes on Risk", Museum of Modern Art in New York: "DesertSeal", prototype of a tent for the desert

Web links

Individual evidence

Paola Antonelli (Ed.): Safe: Design Takes on Risk . The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2005, p. 64. ISBN 0-87070-580-6
Valérie Guillaume, architecture + vision. Mars Cruiser One 2002-2006 , in Airs de Paris , Diffusion Union-Distribution, Paris 2007, pp. 338-339. ISBN 978-2-84426-325-4
Namita Goel, The Beauty of the Extreme , Indian Architect & Builder , March 2006, pp. 82-83.
Arturo Vittori, Architecture and Vision , in L'Arca , October 2004, 196, pp. 26-38.
Un veicolo per marte. Mars Cruiser One , in L'Arca , April 2007, 224, p. 91.
Ruth Slavid, Micro: Very Small Buildings , Laurence King Publishing, London, pp. 102-106, ISBN 978-1-85669-495-7
Desert Tent Desert Seal / Desert Seal Tent, in detail , 2008, 6, pp. 612-614