Hermann & Valentiny and Partners: Codes

For twenty-five years, Hubert Hermann and François Valentiny have maintained their offices in Vienna and Luxemburg. They are linked by a common attitude, molded over the years in a constant verbal and design-based exchange of ideas. They are separated by their locations: here the metropolis of Vienna, there the small and more rural Luxemburg. Hence their disparate tasks - from toolsheds to prestigious structures, from single-family homes to urban housing developments.

This monograph is organized thematically. Architecturally, their works are carried out on a comparable level, but they differ in terms of their subjective expression. Their architecture offers us an experience that doesn't hew to the parameters of the zeitgeist. Instead, it makes a highly individual contribution to the current architectural discussion. It also works with "codes," processing and utilizing historical, contextual, theoretical, and artistic elements and transforming them into contemporary, user-oriented architecture.

Hermann & Valentiny and Partners
Codes
Liesbeth Waechter-Böhm
480 pages. 300 colour illustrations, 190 b/w-illustrations
2008. 23,0 x 29,0 cm. Hardcover. English/German
CHF 99.00 / EUR 55.98 / GB£ 44.90
ISBN-13: 978-3-7643-8767-9

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