Andreas Rumpfhuber (Vienna): Working Glamour: Towards the City After Labour

The lecture by architect Andreas Rumpfhuber will focus on changes in work models in Western industrialized landscapes in the 1950s and 1960s, their consequences in architecture production and our cities, and how they continue to influence our subjective view of the world since then. History in his presentation is closely connected with the use and expansion of cybernetic logic. He mentions the discovery of "office landscape creation," the Mobile Office project by Hans Hollein, and other post-war manifestations of activism related to the concept of immaterial work and how all this relates to our concept of housing.

Andreas Rumpfhuber is an architect and architecture theorist living in Vienna. He heads the office Expanded Design, is the author or co-author of the books Architektur immaterieller Arbeit (Vienna, 2013), The Design of Scarcity (Moscow, 2014), Modelling Vienna: Real Fictions in Social Housing (Vienna, 2014), Wunschmaschine Wohnanlage (Vienna, 2016), and Into the Great Wide Open (Barcelona, 2017). He has been a visiting educator in the field of spatial strategy and design at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, at the State Academy of Art in Stuttgart, and at the Technical University in Vienna where he conducts studio teaching in urbanism. More at www.expandeddesign.net.

The public educational program Visiting Editors is a project of the platform Fake Cities True Stories in collaboration with the VI PER Gallery in Prague and the cultural space PRAHA Forum for Architecture and Media in Brno. Curator: Maria Topolčanská