Bregenzerwald workshop

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Bregenzerwald workshop
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purpose Competence, service and mediation center for the craft
Chair: Martin Bereuter (chairman), Miriam Kathrein (management)
Establishment date: 1999
Number of members: 99
Seat : Andelsbuch
Website: werkraum.at
Exterior view of the Bregenzerwald workshop

The Werkraum Bregenzerwald is a cooperation of craftsmen in the Bregenzerwald founded in 1999 . Organized in an association, the Werkraum Bregenzerwald offers its members institutionalized support in the areas of member service, product and design innovation, education and training, and building culture. Today the association is internationally recognized as a model for new crafts .

Club goals

The aims of the Werkraum Bregenzerwald are to present and convey the achievements of its members, to promote building culture in cooperation with architects, and to increase design competence and quality of craftsmanship, preferably involving young people. The Werkraum Bregenzerwald initiates and organizes projects on the subjects of design and training, be it competitions, exhibitions or other joint activities. The initiative sees itself as a source of inspiration and a platform for the trade. It shows the latest developments and current issues in the mirror of the regional cultural heritage and makes them public. As a motor for innovation and growth, the Werkraum places the connection of craft with design and new technologies, the strengthening of project-related and cross-company cooperation at the center of its activities.

The work of the members of the association is praised for having a common "own design language that is very careful with the vocabulary of the design tradition" and for the "formal consistency and rigor", and as far as building design is concerned, they are assigned to the New Vorarlberger Building School . Works such as those of the design brand schmidinger.modul (e.g. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Austrian Cultural Institute New York) or the industrial designer Robert Rüf have received international attention.

In addition to the permanent exhibition in its own framework and special exhibitions, the Werkraum is also present internationally, in exhibition participations, trade fair appearances and its own exhibitions.

Members

The Werkraum Bregenzerwald currently has 89 members. Broken down by industry, the share of wood processing industries is a good 40%. Almost 60% are from the building trade, plumbing and electrical engineering, metal and glass construction, from the clothing, shoes and jewelry industries. Further representatives are painters, coopers, stove builders, upholsterers, stone masons and new service providers. The members are classic craft businesses, medium-sized, usually family-run companies, some with a rich tradition.

Workroom house

In 2008, the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor received the planning order for a meeting place and for a shop window on the craft culture of the Werkraum Bregenzerwald. The craftsmen from the Bregenz Forest got to know Zumthor while building the Kunsthaus Bregenz (1990–1997). Since then he has been working with companies in the valley. In 2006 he was chairman of the jury for the “Handwerk + Form” competition.

The visionary design of the Werkraum Haus is based on two basic ideas: On the one hand it serves as a meeting place and on the other hand as a large showcase, as a shop window for the craft culture in the Bregenzerwald. This is expressed by a wide roof made of wood and a facade made of glass. The separation between inside and outside is removed, the landscape seems to flow through the house. The building was built by the Werkraum craftsmen and is a stage for the craft with a variety of uses. The open and flexible hall offers 700 square meters of space for exhibitions and events.

Exhibitions

  • Permanent exhibition in the shop window. Presentation of furniture and objects from master workshops in the Bregenzerwald.
  • kitchens - cooking - craft. Craftsmen from the Bregenzerwald show what defines a kitchen in terms of form and function. Werkraumhaus Andelsbuch, June 19 - October 3.
  • no name design. A homage and at the same time an Eldorado for lovers of found objects who neither want to dazzle nor seduce, but simply are there. Collection: Franco Clivio, curated by Hans Hansen and Franco Clivio . Werkraumhaus Andelsbuch, January 30th - May 2nd, 2015.

Review exhibitions:

  • Getting Things Done: Evolution of the Built Environment in Vorarlberg. Traveling exhibition. Curator and project manager: Wolfgang Fiel. September 13 - October 11, 2014.
  • woodloop. Werkraumhaus Andelsbuch, January 25th - April 26th, 2014.
  • EXEMPLA, IHM, Munich, Handwerk moves special show, March 6-12, 2013.
  • Salone Mobile, Milan, Austrian Design exhibition 17 - April 22, 2012.
  • Salone Mobile, Milan, Zona Tortona, exhibition Surprising Ingenuity , Austrian Design @ Milano 2010, 14. –19. April 2010.
  • Werkraum Bregenzerwald - design meets craft. designforumMQ, Museumsquartier Vienna, March 24–24. April 2009
  • furniture for everyone: Design Initiative Werkraum Bregenzerwald . Exhibition center in the Ringturm (exhibition center of the Wiener Städtische Allgemeine), Vienna, April 17 - June 28, 2002, then international traveling exhibition ( Paris , Munich and Saint-Étienne )

Events

  • paul renner rouge et noir - an edible sculpture. An event by the Association of Friends of the Bregenzerwald Werkraum at the end of the exhibition "kitchens - cooking - handicraft". Werkraumhaus Andelsbuch, September 5, 2015
  • Long Night of Museums. Werkraumhaus Andelsbuch, October 3, 2015
  • handwerk + form 2015. Award ceremony and gala evening: 9 October 2015, exhibition: 10/11/15/16/17/18 October 2015
  • zv-Bauherrenpreis 2015: All submitted projects can be seen from October 24, 2015 in the Werkraumhaus.
  • Crafts and youth: The winter months in the workshop are dedicated to youth and the next generation. Yearly.
  • Supporting program: Lectures and discussions, films, concerts and other events accompany the program in the Bregenzerwald workshop.

Craft + form

Handwerk + Form is a design competition and will be held for the seventh time in 2015. The competition with the exhibition tour was founded over two decades ago at the suggestion of the Andelsbuch craftsmen's association in the Bregenzerwald, in collaboration with graphic designer Harry Metzler.

The Werkraum Bregenzerwald has been holding the competition every three years since 2000, bringing together the knowledge of the craftsmen with the aesthetic drafts of the architects, designers and designers and providing innovative impulses for building and living culture. This creates inspiring objects and furnishings as well as detailed solutions for buildings and houses. A competent jury of experts evaluates and awards the submissions according to the principles of material, form and function, in a context suitable for everyday use. All submissions are exhibited in a village tour through Andelsbuch, in abandoned saws and barns, forges and bakeries, in the ambience of old workshops. The public presentation of all submissions received a lot of attention from the population and the specialist press. The prizes from these competitions bought by the Vorarlberg Museum have been on view in the Schaulager of the Werkraum Haus since 2013.

All Bregenzerwald craft businesses and all domestic and foreign architects and designers who develop a workpiece together with a craftsman from the Bregenzerwald are admitted to the competition. All submissions will be shown in an accompanying exhibition. The extraordinary presentation in former workshops and exemplary renovated houses takes visitors on an attractive tour through the entire village. The starting point and meeting point is the Werkraum Haus.

Lädolar workshop

The teaching of crafts to children and young people is an essential part of the workshop program. The Werkraum Lädolar is a display and learning mobile for apprenticeships in the craft. The development and manufacture of these mobile teaching containers is in the hands of apprentices, masters and designers. Working together, they make the variety of materials, techniques and applications in the craft visible and understandable and open up new approaches to work and teaching. The Lädolar can be used wherever concentrated and experienced knowledge of the craft professions is needed and can be borrowed on request. With the Werkraum Lädolar , the Werkraum Bregenzerwald received a nomination for the Austrian State Prize for Design 2009.

Werkraum children's construction site

The children's construction site arose from the desire to bring the fascination of the craft to children and young people as early as possible and to offer them playful opportunities to lend a hand. The five workshops (wood workshop, water workshop, earthworks workshop, metal workshop and painting workshop) enable the children to get to know and use different materials. Depending on their age and interests, the children can work freely or experience their technical precision. For children aged 5–12. Depending on the exhibition, there is an accompanying program for children, all parts of the children's construction site can be borrowed, such as the Lädolar workshop.

Prices

  • ZV Bauherrenpreis 2014 , Werkraum Bregenzerwald
  • BTV Builder Award 2013 , Werkraum Bregenzerwald
  • Bavarian State Prize for exceptional design and technical excellence in the craft 2013 , Werkraum Bregenzerwald
  • State Prize for Design 2009 , nomination for the project "Werkraum Lädolar", category spatial design

literature

  • Florian Aicher, Renate Breuß: idiosyncratic + meaningful. The Bregenzerwald workshop as a model for a new craft . Ökom Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-936581-88-6 ( review ( memento from December 7, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Alpenallianz, July 28, 2005).
  • Roland Gnaiger, Adolph Stiller (ed.): Furniture for everyone. Designititiative Werkraum Bregenzerwald . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Ringturm Vienna. Anton Pustet Verlag, Salzburg 2002.
  • Claudia Schwartz : Werkraum Bregenzerwald. Not just for the sake of form . In: Landscape of Knowledge (ed.): Strategies of the craft. Seven portraits of extraordinary projects in Europe . Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, p. 34–36 ( excerpt [PDF]).
  • Werkraum Bregenzerwald, Gasthof Krone (Ed.): Werkraum Krone. About the new trade and the renovation of a long-established inn in the Bregenz Forest . Bucher, Hohenems 2008.
  • Renate Breuß: Bregenzerwald workshop. From dealing with elementary things . In: cutting . No. 5 , 2002 ( online ( memento from September 21, 2009 in the web archive archive.today )).
  • Gabriele Kaiser: Workpiece instead of piecemeal - two initiatives of the Werkraum Bregenzerwald . In: cutting . No. 26 , 2007, ISSN  1608-9642 .
  • Mathias Irle: Beyond the horizon . In: brand eins . September 2006, ISSN  1438-9339 .
  • Kurt Greussing: Design production in Vorarlberg - spectacular, but not a spectacle . In: designforumWIEN MQ (Hrsg.): 360 ° Design Austria # 2 - Artificial Atlas of Austrian Design . 2009, ISBN 978-3-900364-18-2 .
  • Bregenzerwald workshop. Peter Zumthor built a big black house with the craftsmen in the Bregenz Forest for business, for exhibitions, conferences and parties . In: Hochparterre (Hrsg.): Topical issue from Hochparterre . March 2014.
  • Wolfgang Fiel (Ed.): The Exhibition: Getting Things Done: Evolution of the Built Environment in Vorarlberg . Birkhäuser, 2014, ISBN 978-3-99043-654-7 .

media

  • New craft. The Bregenzerwald workshop. Karin Guldenschuh, ORF Vorarlberg, first broadcast Austria Bild am Sonntag; DVD 2005.
  • Lädolar - new ways of job placement. Documentation, Ingrid Bertel, ORF Vorarlberg, published in: Sendereihe Erlebnis Österreich , DVD 2009.
  • WerkRaum - 80 Bregenzerwald craftsmen build their house with Peter Zumthor. Anneliese Penzendorfer, Medienzoo Bewegt Bild Kommunikation GmbH, DVD 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Michael Hausenblas : werkraum bregenzerwald. Take off from the ground (=  the 2006/2007 catalog ). ( online ( memento of July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) dasmöbel [accessed on September 17, 2009]). Werkraum bregenzerwald. Take off down to earth ( memento of the original from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dasmoebel.at
  2. ↑ Quotation from Dieter Horchler: Werkraum Bregenzerwald. Bregenzerwald - the valley. (No longer available online.) In: Handwerk der Zukunft. IPF Hamburg, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 17, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ipf-hamburg.net
  3. ↑ Otto Kapfinger : Vorarlberger Bauschule - On the emergence and effect of a school that never was. ( Web document ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2013 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 note . In: vai> Bauszene, accessed 2009 ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vai.at
  4. ↑ Schmidinger möbelbau , Schwarzenberg
  5. ^ Simmons Hall MIT Undergraduate Residence. In: Architectural Record → Project Portfolio. The McGraw-Hill Companies, accessed September 17, 2009 .
  6. ↑ shop window. (No longer available online.) Werkraum Bregenzerwald, archived from the original on April 6, 2015 ; Retrieved April 3, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / werkraum.at
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g Werkraum Bregenzerwald: Werkraum Program Folder 2015, January 2015.
  8. ^ Opening of the “No Name Design” exhibition. Werkraum Bregenzerwald, January 30, 2015, accessed on April 3, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Fiel: Getting Things Done: Evolution of the Built Environment in Vorarlberg. Werkraum Bregenzerwald, Andelsbuch. (No longer available online.) 2014, archived from the original on April 18, 2015 ; Retrieved April 3, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gettingthingsdone.or.at
  10. ^ Exhibition in the Bregenzerwald workshop. Bend and break. BM Online, February 19, 2014, accessed April 3, 2015 .
  11. ^ Workroom at the International Crafts Fair in Munich. Werkraum Bregenzerwald, accessed on April 3, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Austrian Design @ Milano 2012. (No longer available online.) Creative Industries Styria, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 3, 2015 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cis.at  
  13. ^ Surprising Ingenuity. (No longer available online.) Creative Industries Styria, archived from the original on September 19, 2011 ; Retrieved April 3, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cis.at
  14. ↑ Werkraum Bregenzerwald - design meets craft. In: exhibitions. Design Austria professional association of graphic designers, illustrators and product designers, archived from the original on March 31, 2009 ; accessed in 2009 .
  15. ^ Design initiative Werkraum Bregenzerwald. ( Memento from October 12, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Wiener Städtische: Architektur im Ringturm.
  16. ↑ ZV-BAUHERRENPREIS 2014 - The winners. (No longer available online.) ZV Central Association of Austrian Architects, archived from the original on April 8, 2015 ; Retrieved April 3, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zv-architekten.at
  17. ↑ Client award 2013, Werkraum Bregenzerwald, Andelsbuch. (No longer available online.) BTV Vieländerbank, archived from the original on April 14, 2015 ; Retrieved April 3, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.btv-arch.at
  18. ↑ Bavarian State Prize for exceptional creative and technical excellence in the craft 2013. (No longer available online.) IHM Internationale Handwerksmesse, archived from the original on April 10, 2015 ; Retrieved April 3, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ihm.de
  19. ^ State Prize Design Archive 2009. (No longer available online.) Bmwfw Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy, archived from the original on April 3, 2015 ; Retrieved April 3, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staatspreis-design.at

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