Vera Purtscher

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Vera Purtscher (born July 12, 1961 in Thuringia , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian architect and designer living in Switzerland .

Life

Purtscher attended the Bludenz grammar school from 1971 to 1979 . Originally she wanted to become a goldsmith. But she decided to study architecture with the idea of ​​studying painting on the side. From then on, Purtscher studied at the Technical University of Vienna , graduating with a Dipl.-Ing. and passed her civil engineering examination in 1997.
From 2003 to 2013 Purtscher was a member of the University Council of the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck ; of which five years as deputy chairwoman. In the 1990s, Purtscher wrote reviews for the Austrian daily Die Presse and specialist magazines for architecture and design (Home, Bauforum, Möbel - Raum- Design, Perspektiven etc.).

Vera Purtscher is the mother of Johannes Martin Purtscher, her first marriage to the Swiss Andreas Auer since 2015 and lives in Heerbrugg . She is the second of three daughters of Gretl and Martin Purtscher .

Memberships

• Since 2013 she has been a member of the University Council of the Medical University of Innsbruck .
• Founding member of vmax, think tank on the future of Vorarlberg, since 2004
• Since 2007 member of the think tank “Energiezukunft Vorarlberg”, initiated by the state of Vorarlberg
• Since 2010 founding member of the “Archive for Architecture” in Innsbruck
• 2011–2012 member of the Vorarlberg program advisory board on the future of energy
• Member of Aiani since 2014

Architect

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Purtscher began working as an architect in Wilhelm Holzbauer's office . As a freelancer, she wrote sideline architectural criticism in the spectrum of the press in the Construction Forum, in furniture space design and in the perspectives. She curated and designed exhibitions in Austria, the Czech Republic, New York, Chicago and Croatia (e.g. Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, “ The Unbuilt Vienna ”). On the initiative of Purtscher, it was possible to connect those three university training centers for architecture in Vienna ( Vienna University of Technology , Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , University of Applied Arts Vienna ), which previously had no exchange, for joint student promotion activities and exhibitions put. She coordinated the “Dream City Vienna” project under the aegis of the City Councilor for the Future, Bernhard Görg, with the aim of establishing mutual relationships between these three educational institutions, Viennese urban planning and the municipal departments involved and politics (1997–1999 with exhibitions in the Museumsquartier Wien ).

In 1998 Purtscher opened her own architecture studio. Her architectural works include a day-care center for children in Hägelingasse, various conversions of historical buildings, mostly for residential use or medical practices, but also the conversion of Casinos Austria in Bregenz in 2002 and representative villas.

Designer

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"Inner fire" in the golden ratio was developed a small Réchaud, which went into production in the 1980s at THE then "design factory" Alessi and remained in the collection for 15 years. Alberto Alessi added the warmer to his "Memory Containers".

In 1990, Purtscher acquired a total of four pieces of the famous avant-garde "round model" cutlery from Josef Hoffmann from the Wiener Werkstätte at the Vienna Dorotheum . Out of disappointment with the lack of ergonomics and functionality , she developed her own cutlery series. The prototyping took a total of seven years until the MoonLashes cutlery series met Purtscher's ideas.

In 2001 she founded an architecture and design company in Switzerland . Your first customer was a chef and restaurateur in Lauterach. Shortly thereafter, the Tantris restaurant in Munich was fitted out . A few years later, at the request of the celebrity chef and in collaboration with Hans Haas , Purtscher developed the Tantris tableware and porcelain series , which was subsequently distributed by Hutschenreuther Hotel and Tafelstern .

In the years 2010-2013 Purtscher developed the SinStella glass series, which in 2015 was used exclusively for one year by Gabriel Kreuther in the Grace Building at Bryant Park in New York in order to be able to make final improvements. The glasses have been publicly sold for the first time since the end of 2016.

Realized architecture projects

Independent planning

• Casinos Austria Extension Jackpot Corner Bregenz
• Day care center at Hägelingasse 13, 1160 Vienna
• Villa conversions for private individuals in Vienna, Bregenz, Uzwil
• Ordination buildings and conversions for specialists in Vienna

Contributor in the Holzbauer office

• Austrian National Bank , Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, 1090 Vienna
• Unicredit Bank Austria (then Central Savings Bank of the Municipality of Vienna ) on the Nordbahnhof area , Lassallestraße 5, 1020 Vienna

Realized design projects

• Inner fire, vp01, Alessi SpA
• MoonLashes cutlery, Vera Pure GmbH
• SinStella glass series, Vera Pure GmbH
• Embroidery design, homage to Rochen, Hämmerle & Vogel Gesellschaft mbH & Co KG
• Tantris dishes, Tafelstern GmbH

Publications

1993, Verlag Gert Hatje, " Walter Pichler " Halle in Syros, published by the Kunsthaus Bregenz in the series "archiv kunst architektur", as a platform for art and architecture communication.

Exhibitions

• 1993 exhibition design in the Ulysses Gallery in New York.
• 1993 Graham Foundation in Chicago.
• 1995 Historical Museum of the City of Vienna .
• 1997–1998 exhibition designs in Zagreb and Liberece on drawings and sketches by Wilhelm Holzbauer.

Awards and honors

• In 1996 she won the highest Austrian award as architecture critic from the Austrian Association of Cultural Mediators in Museums and Exhibitions.
• Alessi Memory Containers.

Web links

• VERA PURE Official Website
• Nextroom article collection
• Vera Purtscher in ORF Today living as the "architect of the gourmet restaurants" (ORF report from June 20, 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ High celebrity quota: Government appointed new university councils. Der Standard, February 13, 2013, accessed May 30, 2017 . 
2. ↑ DorfWiki: TageDerUtopie / 27-4-2007. Retrieved May 30, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Proton - the free radio - The world thought differently_RETROspective: "Vmax 2031" - Visions for Vorarlberg (Sun 17.01.2016, 6:00 p.m.). (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 30, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ↑ DorfWiki: TageDerUtopie / 27-4-2007. Retrieved May 30, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Energy autonomy Vorarlberg: Sustainable energy supply - Energy autonomy Vorarlberg. Retrieved May 30, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Archive for Architecture. Retrieved May 30, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Dr. Adi Gross: 101 measures suitable for grandchildren. Vorarlberger Landesregierung, Landesrat Ing.Erich Schwärzler, November 4, 2011, accessed on May 30, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Mag.a Roswitha Natter, Mag.a Karin Guldenschuh: Energy Future Vorarlberg. Office of the Vorarlberg state government, energy sector, June 1, 2010, accessed on May 30, 2017 . 
9. ↑ team. Retrieved May 30, 2017 . 
10. ↑ view. (No longer available online.) October 23, 2014, archived from the original on July 5, 2017 ; accessed on May 30, 2017 . 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.  
11. ↑ Architekturzentrum Wien - Dream City Vienna. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 7, 2016 ; accessed on May 30, 2017 . 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.  
12. ↑ Alessi, Complementi da tavola - Scaldateiera a lume di Vera Purtscher. Retrieved May 30, 2017 . 
13. ^ Alberto Alessi: La fabbrica dei sogni: Alessi dal 1921 . Rizzoli, 2016, ISBN 978-88-586-8720-8 ( google.at [accessed May 30, 2017]).
14. ↑ Bill Curtis: Best of the Best 2016: Leisure | Dining: Gabriel Kreuther . In: Robb Report . June 14, 2016 ( robbreport.com [accessed May 30, 2017]).
15. ↑ Fine Dining's Not Dead Yet and Gabriel Kreuther Has Proof . In: Bloomberg.com . September 23, 2015 ( bloomberg.com [accessed May 30, 2017]).
16. ^ Hatje Cantz Publisher: Walter Pichler | Architecture | Hatje Cantz Publishing House. Retrieved May 30, 2017 . 
17. ^ Kunsthaus Bregenz. Retrieved May 30, 2017 . 
18. ^ Gallery - Ulysses NYC. Retrieved May 30, 2017 (English). 
19. ^ Graham Foundation. Retrieved May 30, 2017 . 
20. ↑ view. (No longer available online.) October 23, 2014, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 30, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
21. ^ Austrian Association of Cultural Mediators in Museums and Exhibitions | Austrian Association of Cultural Mediators in Museums and Exhibitions. Retrieved May 30, 2017 .