Jabornegg & Palffy
dal 23/6/2009 al 26/9/2009
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23/6/2009
Jabornegg & Palffy
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Art - works on paper - architecture - design. The Vienna-based architects (who established their partnership in 1988) have paid particular attention to the historical substance of buildings they have worked on over the past twenty years. Their aim is not to create an object for its own sake or to draw attention to isolated design elements in their architecture, but to examine the context as a fundamental point of reference for each building project.
The Viennese architects Christian Jabornegg and András Pálffy, who
established their joint architectural practice in 1988, have taken a
meaningful path towards creating an architecture whose quality
becomes particularly apparent when seen in conjunction with a
building’s historical context. In complete contrast to standard
architectural practices, Jabornegg & Pálffy have become well known
due to a number of buildings which have been embedded in their
historical context so that externally, from the pubic space, they
barely stand out at all.
The architects adopt an especially analytical approach to the
historical fabric. They do not thrust an isolated building or an
architectual design element into the foreground but take the context
as a fundamental point of reference for every structural
intervention. They see ‘building in context’ as a complex and
multifaceted interaction between the existing building fabric, the
projected space allocation, the quality of the architecture and
structural solutions. Their designs are based on context-related
appraisals and analyses.
For Jabornegg & Pálffy, didactic models of the various phases of
construction and design methods form a crucial aspect within the
course of making spatial changes in an historical context. Their
architectural solutions emerge as a result of precise deliberations
about functionality, structure and ambient conditions. There are no
isolated ‘design’ elements or dramatic form-related experiments;
instead, there are spatial systems within structural contexts.
This is how one of the most beautiful spaces for modern art was
created for the Generali Foundation through the conversion of a hat
factory in a courtyard in Vienna, as the architectural design – which
cannot be detected from the outside – was developed solely for the
optimum presentation of the exhibits. In the case of the conversions
of the Palais Rothschild for Schoeller Bank and of the south wing of
Kassel’s main station for documenta X, the new functional spaces
with optimised energy requirements emerged from the logical
interaction with historical structures. In the case of the
subterranean museum on Judenplatz in Vienna, the intensity of the
overall effect comes from the powerful contrast – gained by paring
down to the extreme – between the ‘empty’ square above ground
with Rachel Whiteread’s Holocaust Memerial and the museum
rooms underground in which, thanks to the building’s utmost
architectural perfection, the visitor is cleverly guided towards
entering into a dialogue with the past and the present. This ‘rubbing
shoulders’ with an historical environment calls for new, complex
solutions and architectural qualities.
Fourteen of the architects’ building projects are to be shown in the
exhibition using thirty, large, didactically-based models as well as
plans and photographs. A catalogue published by Niggli Verlag will
accompany the exhibition.
Image: South Wing Main Station | Documenta X | Kassel 1997 | Photo 1997 © Monika Nikolic
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Press preview: 24.06.2009, 11.00
Opening: 24.06.2009, 19.00
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