Delugan Meissl Associated Architects

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Elke Delugan-Meissl, Dipl.Ing.

born in Linz, Austria

Studied at the University of Technology in Innsbruck and graduated under Professor O. Barth

Cooperation with several studios in Innsbruck and Vienna, Prof. Wilhelm Holzbauer

1993-2004 foundation of Delugan_Meissl ZT GmbH with Roman Delugan in Vienna, Austria- realisation of several housing projects with main focus on social housing

2004 expansion to Delugan Meissl Associated Architects

since 2003 Member of the Land Advisory Board of Vienna

2006 guest professorship University Stuttgart

since 2006 Chairwoman of the Building and Urban Design Assessment Committee, Salzburg

since 2007 Member of the BIG Architecture Advisory Board Vienna

Roman Delugan, Mag. Arch.

born in Merano, Italy

Studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and graduated from the master class of Professor Wilhelm Holzbauer

1984 to 1985 research collaboration on the project 'Architecture of the 20th century in Austria' directed by Prof. Friedrich Achleitner

1993 foundation of Delugan_Meissl ZT GmbH with Elke Delugan-Meissl in Vienna, Austria- realisation of several housing projects with main focus on social housing

2004 expansion to Delugan Meissl Associated Architects

1996 to 1997 assistant Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna

2004 to 2005 guest professorship at the Berner Fachhochschule, Bern, Switzerland

The architecture of Delugan Meissl Associated Architects is much like language, in which meaning is constituted by the relationships among individual words. In contrast to other architectural philosophies, DMAA do not reduce this principle of hermetic language to a game in and of itself, but rather, they root it in their work with as many multivalent relationships between architecture and its contextual environment as possible, premiating the context of the building and the physical presence of its users.

Directed and rigorous processes of design are guided from spatial perception to future users. Their architectural concepts and connections to the existing fabric are reminiscent of organisms entering into dialogue with the environment, as integral parts of an overall system. Inside and out, their concepts break down the order of conventional rooms into flowing, functionally defined spatial sequences. Volumes directly engage the body of the observer through their scale, the way they interact with gravity, geometry, and the way they “hint at the inexpressible”. Independent of size or function, the work of Delugan Meissl Associates Architects is consistently determined by these design concepts and theoretical principles.

In this regard, Delugan Meissl Associate Architects are committed to developing the principle of intensification, along with ways to spatialize it and make it physiologically tangible. As opposed to a type of “representational form” of contemporary architecture that is geared primarily to the visual and to interpretive meaning, 'actual form' is generated, which, in its physiological effects on the senses and the body, follows the dictum:

"Aesthetics is nothing more than the art of applied psychology."

Friedrich Nietzsche

DMAA – INTENSE REPOSE

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

DELUGAN MEISSL

ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS

DELUGAN MEISSL 2

CONCEPTS, PROJECTS, BUILDINGS

REDDOT DESIGN AWARD 2008

WALLPAPER* AWARD 2008

ARCHIP 2007

INTERNATIONAL HIGH-RISE AWARD 2006

PREIS DER STADT WIEN FÜR ARCHITEKTUR 2006

CONTRACTWORLD AWARD 2004

POLYDECOR-CORIAN DESIGN AWARD 2004

DEUTSCHER UMBAUPREIS 2004

BUILDING CONTRACTOR AWARD 2002

2007

Delugan Meissl Associated Architects inTENSE repose, [touring exhibition]

Wien/Vienna / Zürich/Zurich / New York / Lemgo / Köln/Cologne‚

Toll free: European Architects in Transit‘, Museu Serralves / Allgarve, Portugal

2006

Delugan Meissl Associated Architects inTENSE repose, [touring exhibition]; Lichtforum Dornbirn, 17.3.-28.4.06 / Lighthouse

Glasgow, 15.5.-23.5.06 / Candid Arts, London, 8.6.-18.6.06 / Cube, Manchester, 6.7.-16.7.06 / ICP Institute for Cultural

Policy, Hamburg, 27.7.-23.8.06 / Filmmuseum Amsterdam, 31.8.-27.9.06 / Aedes Berlin, 6.10.-9.11.06

Sculptural Architecture in Austria – China 2006, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 7.- 22.8.06 / Guangdong Museum

of Art, Guangzhou 15.10. – 16.11.06

2005

The 2nd International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, The WaterCity, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Rock over Barock, Aedes Berlin, Germany

2004

Ungewohnt Gewohnt, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany

Rock over Barock, Kunsthaus Muerz, Austria

1st International Architectural Biennial Beijing, Apartment Unit 8-II ‚Deep Surface‘, Beijing, China

Picturing the Modern World: The Photography of Dwell, James Nicholson

Gallery, San Francisco, House Ray1 by Hertha Hurnaus

2003

Contemporary Austrian Architecture, Prague, Czech Republic

InAusNach Salzburg, Klagenfurt, Austria

Expo Making Waves, Shanghai, China

Housing in Vienna, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, USA

Urban Life, Architectural League of New York, USA

Beyond Media 03, Florence, Italy

Stand der Dinge; Living in Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2002

Delugan_Meissl STATE OF FLUX, Kunsthaus Meran / meran/o arte, Italy

Next, Biennale Venedig, 8th International Architecture Exhibition / Venice Biennale, Italy

best of wohnbau, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria

InAusNach Salzburg, Ringturm Wien, Vienna, Austria

2001

Contemporary Austrian Architecture, Bratislava, Slovakia

Austrian Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Contemporary Austrian Architecture, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Beyond Media, Florence, Italy

2000

Wien Städtebau – Der Stand der Dinge, Planungswerkstatt, Vienna, Austria

Panoramas Européens, Pavillon de L’Arsenal, Paris, France

Varius-Multiplex-Multiforms, Young European Architects, Venice Biennale, Italy

Don Gil, Institut Français de Vienne, Vienna, Austria

1999

Varius-Multiplex-Multiforms, Young european architects, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Zeichenbau, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

Frauen in der Technik von 1900 bis 2000, Planungswerkstatt, Vienna, Austria