Christine Lechner
Christine Lechner (born Stadler, born October 27, 1960 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian architect , interior designer and civil engineer .
Life
Christine Lechner studied interior design in Linz from 1979 to 1984 at the University of Design under Friedrich Goffitzer and Laurids Ortner . After completing her studies, she worked in various architectural offices, attended the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg in 1982 with the architects Gustav Peichl and Wilhelm Holzbauer , and studied architecture at the Art University Linz in parallel. She graduated in 1990 at the first diploma exam date for the newly established architecture course. In 1987 Christine Lechner and her fellow student Horst Lechner won the design competition for the redesign of the saloon cars of the Austrian Federal Railways , whereupon the two, spurred on by the positive media coverage, opened the Lechner & Lechner Atelier in Salzburg . In the course of the collaboration between the “Initiative Architektur Salzburg” with the Chair of Urban Development at ETH Zurich by Franz Oswald and the architects Daniel Libeskind & Kurt W. Forster on the project “No one in its shape - urban development on the border”, the two learned the lecturer and Editor of the book that was published at the same time, Johannes Schallhammer. They have been working together on a project basis in a consortium since 2000.
“We, the residents of our city, have to create our own cultural environment.
We need projection surfaces that make permanent changes and the creation of identity possible.
The aim is to discuss comprehensive content, far beyond the aesthetics. "
The implementation of this thesis put forward by the Lechner in 1997 can be seen in later works, for example in the gradual development of the "Lechner living and studio house" from a car workshop to the working and living house of the family of architects or the controversial "Sculpture in the Landscape" (Salzburg 2013 ) comprehend.
In the meantime, Christine Lechner has worked as a guest lecturer in wood architecture at the Technical and Natural Sciences University of Norway , Trondheim, and as a guest critic at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg and the ETH Zurich . An important project is the Lechner residential and studio house, which was planned, built and inhabited together with Horst Lechner and which won the Salzburg Architecture Prize in 2010. In 2012 she was part of the jury of the Salzburg Architecture Prize 2012 as a prize winner.
In addition to buildings in Austria, Lechner & Lechner planned and implemented projects in Germany and from 1996 to 1997 projects in South Korea . From 2006 to 2009 the Lechner - Lechner - Schallhammer team, expanded by Johannes Schallhammer, developed hotel projects and an ecological urban development concept for the city of Mirfa in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates . Christine Lechner was married to her fellow student, the architect Horst Lechner, since 1987 - they have two sons together.
The older son, Horst Michael Lechner, who studied architecture at the Art University Linz as well as the Vilnius Academy of Arts and the Politecnico di Milano , has been a member of the Landluft Advisory Board since 2015 and has also been an architect in Salzburg since 2017. His master's thesis "River Salzach - Transformation to a Lifeline", developed together with Lukas Ployer , in which a long-term development strategy for the Salzach as an urban development area was drawn up, attracted a great deal of media and political echo. In doing so, they not only work on the historical center, but also on the periphery of the city. They present strategies and concepts for the transformation of the Salzach into a cross-district lifeline with the aim of regaining the river basin as a recreational area for all Salzburg residents. The associated exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Salzburg developed into a crowd puller and was extended twice due to the large number of visitors. For this and for the further commitment to the sensual potential of the river, Horst Lechner and Lukas Ployer were awarded the scholarship of the architecture prize “Land Salzburg” in 2018 .
The second son, Paul Lechner, studies architecture at the University of Innsbruck and economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz .
In 2016, a detailed portrait of Lechner was published in the course of the state exhibition in 2016 under the heading "Salzburg are you big daughters". Since 2016, Lechner has been a member of the board of the Salzburg regional group of the Central Association of Architects in Austria and a member of the architecture advisory board of the Salzburg regional government.
Projects (selection)
After the office was founded, the “Change” shopfitting system achieved initial success. It was awarded the design award “Selected” in 1987 by the Austrian Design Institute and implemented in two Salzburg shops ( Fortress Hohensalzburg and Kiesel building ).
The atrium house in Kuchl , built in 1993, was exhibited in 1996 in the course of the publication "M1: 33, innovative austrian architecture" by Ramesh Kumar Biswas in the premises of the Austrian Parliament . For its role as a pioneering project of stringent timber construction, the building was published in numerous specialist publications.
Also worth mentioning are the numerous exhibition stands and designs of the young drink company Red Bull in the 1990s . The trendy restaurant "Carpe Diem" in Salzburg's Getreidegasse was also designed by Lechner's.
An important project was the Lechner residential and studio building, which was planned, built and inhabited jointly with Horst Lechner, in the UNESCO World Heritage ensemble in Salzburg's old town . Although not submitted for it, the building won the Salzburg State Architecture Prize in 2010 , as the expert jury made use of its option set out in the Architecture Prize statutes of awarding a prize to a project that was not submitted for assessment.
The amoprh- shaped living sculpture in the Salzburg district of Leopoldskron , now completed, generated particularly strong media interest and controversial discussions in front of the construction site . The experimental building in an exposed location, called "Sculpture in the Landscape" by the Lechner - by critics "UFO House" - was accused of breaking the conventional image of houses. According to a survey carried out by the opinion research institute IMAS after the unveiling of the building, the unusual shape divided passers-by, and for the most part a great perplexity was noticeable in the answers.
In June 2013, on the occasion of the 175th company anniversary of the building material manufacturer “Leube”, the “ Leube Sculpture Path”, designed by Christine and Horst Lechner, was opened in St. Leonhard near Salzburg. The sculpture path was built as a memorial to the company founder Gustav Ernst Leube .
The renovation of an ordination in Salzburg's old town also received media attention. The challenge in this case was to carefully wrest an additional space from a historical wall without the possibility of spatial expansion in the middle of the world cultural heritage of Salzburg's old town. Due to the importance of the old town and out of respect for existing buildings, it was not possible to expand into the outside space; therefore, new space had to be created in the existing structure. The solution to this task is unorthodox: the requirement was met by a bulge from the treatment room into the existing waiting room and implemented in the form of a cushioned wall including storage space with an integrated sofa. The project received the Austrian Interior Design Award in 2018.
Awards
- 1987 Design award "Selected" from the Austrian Institute for Design
- 1995 Korea Institute of Industrial Design Certificate of Appreciation of the international cooperation project for development of industrial design and packaging technique.
- 1998 Architecture Prize 2001 from the Reiners Foundation, “The best single-family houses” - Germany Austria Switzerland
- 2000 Architecture Prize 2000 from the Reiners Foundation, “Building with Wood” - Germany Austria Switzerland
- 2000 Award in the architecture competition "Architecture & Solar Energy" of the German Society for Solar Energy;
- 2000 Recognition for residential building in Hallein-Rif at the Salzburg State Architecture Prize (together with Horst Lechner)
- 2000 “House of the Future” award from the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology
- 2001 Architecture Prize of the Reiners Foundation, "The best single-family houses" - Germany Austria Switzerland
- 2004 State Energy Prize Salzburg House Achleitner & Fuchs
- 2004 State Energy Prize Salzburg Haus Schörghofer
- 2008 Architecture Prize 2008 from the Reiners Foundation “Spectacular Houses” - Germany Austria Switzerland
- 2010 Architecture Prize of the State of Salzburg for residential building and office, Priesterhausgasse 18, Salzburg (together with Horst Lechner)
- 2012 Chamber of Commerce award for the Eugendorf meeting table made by the Elsenwenger joinery
- 2016 Salzburg are you big daughters - Award for Christine Lechner
- 2018 Austrian Interior Architecture Award
- 2019 Timber Construction Prize Salzburg
Lectures (selection)
- Technical and Natural Science University of Norway / Trondheim ( Norway )
- Guest critic at the Chair of Urban Development ETH Zurich ( Switzerland )
- Guest critic at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg ( Austria )
- University of Innsbruck (Austria)
- Technical University of Vienna (Austria)
- Turn on Architecture Festival, ORF Vienna (Austria)
- Energy self-sufficient office and residential building, Initiative Architektur (Austria)
gallery
Salon wagon of the ÖBB 1987
Rusty shoe box
Bottomless architecture
House in Kitzbühel
The Carpe Diem in Salzburg's Getreidegasse
Interweaving inside and outside
Lechner residential and studio building in Salzburg
Lechner - Lechner - Schallhammer golf club project in the UAE
Eugendorf meeting table
Lechner - Lechner - Schallhammer project in Abu Dhabi , UAE
Liwa Desert Hotel Developement, UAE
Lechner - Lechner - Schallhammer - LWS Winklhof Oberalm
Sofa wall in the old town of Salzburg
Vertical development
Detail wood to concrete
Lighting moods
literature
- Ramesh Kumar Biswas: M1: 33, innovative Austrian Architecture. Springer, Vienna / New York 1996, ISBN 3-211-82728-5 , pp. 126–127.
- Professorship for Architecture and Urban Development ETH Zurich & Architecture Initiative Salzburg: No one in its own right - urban development on the border. Pustet, Salzburg 1997, ISBN 3-7025-0368-4 , p. 35.
- Gunda Dworschak, Alfred Wenke: New energy-saving houses in detail. WEKA Baufachverlag - publishing house for architects and engineers, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-8277-1696-9 , pp. 135-142.
- Holger Reiners: Individual single-family houses under 500,000 DM. Callway, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7667-1210-1 , pp. 170–173.
- Holger Reiners: Spectacular houses: 33 excellent buildings; Reiners Foundation Architecture Prize. DVA, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-421-03650-6 , pp. 172-179.
- Stephan Isphording, Holger Reiners: The ideal floor plan. Callway, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7667-1280-2 , pp. 146-147.
- Gunda Dworschak, Alfred Wenke: Architecture crazy International project examples , constructions, details. Bauwerk, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-934369-10-3 , pp. 136–141.
Web links
- Christine Lechner. In: arch INFORM .
- lechner-lechner.at
- nextroom.at: Christine Lechner, Lechner & Lechner - 5020 Salzburg (A)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DIE BRÜCKE - Article ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Architecture initiative
- ↑ dip.mak.at ( Memento of the original dated November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Architecture initiative: Call for applications for the State of Salzburg Architecture Prize 2012 . Retrieved January 2, 2015.
- ↑ Article: Die Brücke (pdf) ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Article: Bauforum (pdf) ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Article: Domus (Italian - PDF) ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Obituary Country Air
- ^ Letter to the editor in the Salzburger Nachrichten
- ↑ Article in the Salzburger Nachrichten
- ^ Article in the Salzburg window
- ↑ ORF contribution over the river Salzach space on Youtube
- ↑ Article on ORF.at
- ↑ ORF contribution over the river Salzach space on Youtube
- ↑ ServusTV article about the Salzach river basin on Youtube
- ↑ Facebook event
- ↑ Architecture initiative
- ^ Press information from the Architecture Initiative
- ↑ Article in the Salzburger Nachrichten
- ↑ Salzburg2016 ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The hub of culture - passion for urban life
- ↑ Statutes of the Salzburg State Architecture Prize ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Initiative Architektur - Jury statement Salzburg Architecture Prize 2010
- ↑ Salzburg News
- ↑ Kronen Zeitung
- ↑ Salzburg News
- Jump up culture
- ↑ Salzburglive
- ↑ Leube
- ↑ Architektur Aktuell
- ↑ designpreis.at
- ↑ schachermayer.at
- ^ Architecture Prize Land Salzburg 2000: Recognitions . ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
- ^ Architecture Prize Land Salzburg 2010: Architecture Prize Winner . ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
- ↑ Elsenwenger's table on YouTube
- ↑ Salzburg News
- ↑ Profile Christine Lechner on nextroom.at , accessed on January 2, 2015.
- ↑ Priesterhausgasse residential and office building . Turn On Architecture Festival
- ↑ Lecture: Energy self-sufficient office and residential building . Architecture initiative; accessed on January 2, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lechner, Christine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzburg |