Volker Giencke

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Volker Giencke (born June 27, 1947 in Wolfsberg , Carinthia ) is an Austrian architect .

Life

Volker Giencke studied architecture and philosophy in Graz and Vienna . He worked with Merete Mattern , the landscape architect Raimund Herms and Günther Domenig . In 1981 the atelier "Giencke & Company Architects" was opened in Graz, further offices followed in 1990 in Seville and 2004 in Riga.

Volker Giencke has been teaching since 1992 as a professor of architecture at the University of Innsbruck , Institute for Building Construction and Design. In 2000 he founded the ./studio 3, Institute for Experimental Architecture there.

He was Davenport Professor at the YALE School of Architecture New Haven / USA, at University College London - Bartlett School of Architecture, at Rizvi College Bombay, at L'Ecole Polytechnique Nantes, and at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Memberships

Volker Giencke is a member of the Austrian Association of Visual Artists , a member of the Austrian Society for Architecture , a member of the Central Association of Architects in Austria, an honorary member of the Association of German Architects , a member of the Latvian Association of Architects, a founding member of the Bartenbach Light Academy at the University of Innsbruck, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and arts .

Awards

Josef Frank Prize, Friedrich Zotter Memorial Prize without a year, winners in the Shinkenshiku Residential Design Competition / Tokyo, Grand Austrian Housing Prize, winners Constructec Prize / Hanover, Mensch-im-Raum-Preis, Prize of the Central Association of Architects Austria's 1987, '91, '94, '98; Architecture Prize of Styria 1987 + 1998, Architecture Prize of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Architecture Prize of Carinthia 1991 + 2000, Dedalo Minosse Prize Vicenza 2002 + 2006 + 2017, Geramb-Rose, Award for emerging architecture, 2007 Fischer-von-Erlach Prize, 2016 "Latvian Architecture Award", 2016 "American Architecture Prize", 2016 "Chicago Athenaeum - International Architecture Award", "A + Award Winner" - New York, 2016 "European Concrete Award 2nd prize" - Rome, "International Award for Facade Engineering Excellence "- London," Idea-Tops Award "- Shenzhen, 2017 Tyrolean State Prize for Art , 2018 Grand Prix" Glass in Architecture "- Moscow.

Exhibitions

Personal exhibitions in the Forum Stadtpark Graz 1976, Liederhalle Stuttgart 1979, Künstlerhaus Graz 1981, Steirischer Herbst 1984, Biennale de Paris 1985, Hochschule der Künste Berlin 1989, EXPO '92 Seville, Biennale Venice 1992 + 93, House of Architecture Graz 1989, 1992 and 1994 , Driver Museum Graz 1998, traveling exhibition Brussels-NY-LA - Sidney-Berlin-Vienna etc., NYAA New York Academy of Art 1999, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp 1999, Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag 2002, RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects 2002, Architecture Biennale Venice 2004, Basilica Palladiana Vicenza - Dedalo-Minosse 2006, Architekturzentrum Wien (AZW) “Architecture in Austria in the 20th a. 21st century " 2006, Kunsthaus Graz: “M-City” 2006, AUT Innsbruck “Genius Loci” 2007, German Architecture Center Berlin (DAZ) “Sense of Architecture” 2007, Napoleonstadel Carinthia Architektur-TRANSFER 2008, “Process” - current projects Arsenale Riga 2008, “Architecture as a space of music - Sense of Architecture” - Architectural Biennale in Venice 2008, 2015 Personal exhibition "Volker Giencke" in the aut, Part of me is language. A part of speech. in the Sudhaus des Adambräu , Innsbruck, Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 - Palazzo Bembo.

Realizations & projects - selection

  • 1975 Multipurpose hall Günther Domenig / Volker Giencke, Graz
  • 1977 Wörthersee shipyard, Günther Domenig / Volker Giencke, Klagenfurt
  • 1981 Lendplatz student residence, Graz
  • 1982 School on the slope, Kumberg / Austria
  • 1984 Red Stage Graz
  • 1985 "Maxonus", Graz
  • 1985 Dr Benedek's house, Graz
  • 1987 Porsche Salzburg administration building
  • 1988 "Indian" exhibition, Graz
  • 1991 State Archives Klagenfurt
  • 1992 Hartberg Regional Hospital
  • 1992 Johannes Kepler high school in Graz
  • 1992 Austrian Pavilion Expo 92 , Seville
  • 1992 Odörfer, exhibition, office and administration building in Klagenfurt
  • 1992 Catholic branch church in Aigen im Ennstal , Austria
  • 1992 Austrian Cultural Institute, NY
  • 1993 Innsbruck student residence
  • 1993 Atelier at Schönbrunngasse 73, Graz
  • 1993 Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
  • 1994 "Carl-Spitzweg-Gasse" residential building, Graz
  • 1995 Glass houses in the Botanical Garden of the University of Graz
  • 1996 Hypo-Bank headquarters, Klagenfurt
  • 1997 Costantini Museum, Buenos Aires
  • 1997 Hotel "Speicher Barth", Baltic Sea
  • 1998 Rhodarium Bremen
  • 1999 "Mega-Baumax" Klagenfurt
  • 1999 Music Center Helsinki
  • 2000 Oslo Opera House
  • 2001 VOEST - "Future & Steel", Linz
  • 2001 Seckau Abbey Adaptation and expansion of the Romanesque monastery complex
  • 2002 Bregenz Regional Hospital
  • 2002 Mozarteum Salzburg
  • 2003 Bartenbach Light Academy - University of Innsbruck
  • 2002 Pardatschgrat Congress Center, Tyrol
  • 2004 City Hall Graz
  • 2005 Academy Mariazell, Austria
  • 2006 Hotel Elisabeth, Ischgl / Tyrol
  • 2007 New Riga City Center
  • 2007 Mangalsala - Future Development of the Island, Riga
  • 2011 Museum of Modern Art, Taipei
  • 2012 Casas Activas
  • 2013 360 ° Jakomini, Graz
  • 2014 Baltic Thermal Pool, Liepaja / Latvia
  • 2014 House of Music, Innsbruck
  • 2015 “A part of Speech” - room installation aut, Innsbruck
  • 2015 GREAT AMBER concert hall in Liepaja / Latvia

  • Red Stage Graz

  • Johannes Kepler High School, Graz

  • Aigen Church, Austria

  • Aigen Church - sketch floor plan

  • Odörfer - Exhibition Hall, Klagenfurt

  • Glass houses Botanical Garden, University of Graz

  • Rhodarium Bremen

  • Music Center Helsinki

  • Seckau Abbey - glass roof over Zwinger

  • Mozarteum Salzburg

  • City house Graz

  • New Riga City Center

  • Museum Modern Art, Taipei

  • 360 ° Jakomini

  • Casas Activas

  • Great Amber, Liepaja Concert Hall

Literature (selection)

  • Volker Giencke - Tangible Utopia, Booklet - Architecture Biennale Venice 2018
  • Time-Space-Existence, European Cultural Center, Architecture Biennial Venice 2018, ISBN 978-90-826559-3-3 .
  • Tangible Utopias - 15 years ./studio 3; Publisher: University of Innsbruck, ./studio 3 - Institute for Experimental Architecture, ISBN 978-3-200-03879-0 .
  • Masterpieces: Performance Architecture + Design, Giant Amber- Concert Hall Liepaja, Braun Publishing AG, ISBN 978-3-03768-042-1 .
  • "Metamorph" Biennale Venezia, catalog "Trajectories - Concert Halls", Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, Ca'Giustinian, San Marco 1364 / a I-30124 Venezia, ISBN 88-317-8533-8 .
  • The Organic Approach to Architecture; Deborah Gans, Zehra Kuz - Pratt Institute / New York, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., ISBN 978-0-470-84791-6 .
  • The Ethical Function of Architecture; Karsten Harries; The MIT Press - Massachusetts Institute of Technology / USA, ISBN 0-262-08252-7 .
  • Respect architecture; Eeva Liisa Pelkonen; The MIT Press - Massachusetts Institute of Technology / USA, ISBN 0-262-16159-1 .
  • Respect architecture; Eeva Liisa Pelkonen; Ritter-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85415-185-2 .
  • Volker Giencke: Projects. Projects. With an essay by Roger Connah, German and English, Springer, Vienna New York 2001, ISBN 3-211-83554-7 .
  • The Power of Contemporary Architecture; Peter Cook and Neil Spiller; Publisher: Academy editions Great Britain, ISBN 0-471-98419-1 , John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
  • The World of Contemporary Architecture; Könemann Verlagges.mbH, ISBN 3-8290-3564-0 .
  • Europe, the Contemporary Architecture Guide Vol. 2; Masayuki Fuchigami, Ed .: TOTO Shuppan / Japan, ISBN 4-88706-184-6 .
  • Architecture in Austria, a survey of the 20th century; Ed .: Birkhäuser Verlag, ISBN 3-7643-6031-3 .
  • Dialogues in Time; Peter Blundell Jones; House of Architecture Graz, ISBN 3-901174-36-2 .
  • Architecture as Commitment - Styrian Architecture 1986–1992, Ed .: Haus der Architektur Graz, ISBN 3-901174-09-5 .
  • New Spririt in Architecture; Peter Cook & Rosie Llewellyn-Jones; Publisher - Rizzoli New York, ISBN 0-8478-1263-4 .

Web links

Commons : Volker Giencke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tiroler Tageszeitung: Volker Giencke in the TT interview: Streiter for concrete utopias . Article dated September 23, 2017, accessed March 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ volker giencke. Part of me is language. A Part of Speech ( Memento of the original from December 22, 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. aut.architecture and tyrol 19th March 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aut.cc
personal data
SURNAME Giencke, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfsberg , Carinthia