querkraft new guest studio at FA ČVUT
Viennese Transformation
Jakob Dunkl, Gerd Erhartt, and Peter Sapp from the Vienna architectural office querkraft will be visiting professors at the Faculty of Architecture of CTU in the academic year 2024/2025. Students will design the transformation of an unfinished department store in Vienna under their guidance during the winter semester.
The Austrian architectural studio querkraft has completed around 100 projects and realizations in Austria and abroad since its establishment in 1998. Among these are the Liaunig museum building, the Austrian pavilion at Expo in Dubai, the innovative department store IKEA in Vienna, a social housing complex HAK, and the completion of the university campus in Linz.
The studio has received many prestigious awards, including a nomination for the European Mies van der Rohe Award for architecture, the Austrian Staatspreis Architektur, the City of Vienna Award, and an award for sustainability for the first car-free IKEA in Vienna and the Austrian pavilion for the World Expo in Dubai. The studio also represented Austria in 2004 at the Venice Biennale. The works of querkraft have been published in professional magazines and showcased at international exhibitions in Venice, Tokyo, Shanghai, Ljubljana, Boston, Bristol, and other cities. The motto of the office is friendship, respect, and joy in work.
The visiting studio aims to bring inspiring architects, current topics, and new teaching methods to the faculty. After Winy Maas, our faculty has successfully attracted further prominent figures in contemporary European architecture. “querkraft is one of the best architectural studios in Vienna, and I greatly appreciate that Jakob Dunkl, Gerd Erhartt, and Peter Sapp will be serving as visiting professors at our faculty. querkraft means 'crossing force.' The motto of the studio is moderation, using as few resources as possible, and creating smart architecture with minimal technology. The studio always focuses on people, on simple but strong solutions, designing buildings that people will love and that will therefore be sustainable,” says Dalibor Hlaváček, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of CTU.
As visiting professors, querkraft will focus on the unfinished department store Lamarr in Vienna, designed by the OMA office, which has been awaiting completion since the bankruptcy of the investor. The task for the students will be to breathe new life into the building in the form of a hybrid object for living, working, leisure, and cultural use.
“Together with our students, we will seek poetry and beauty in architecture. We will ask whether the building is functional and sustainable, whether people will be happy in it, or whether merely looking at it can bring joy. Architecture that is loved will be cared for and will live on for a long time. Love is the best form of sustainability,” explain the concept of the school studio by the new visiting professors.
Since this year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka, the Prague and Vienna writer, the proposal will also include the placement of a museum directly within the building. The transformation – Kafka's most famous work – will thus become the theme of the project for Czech students under the guidance of Vienna architects.
The Austrian architectural studio querkraft has completed around 100 projects and realizations in Austria and abroad since its establishment in 1998. Among these are the Liaunig museum building, the Austrian pavilion at Expo in Dubai, the innovative department store IKEA in Vienna, a social housing complex HAK, and the completion of the university campus in Linz.
The studio has received many prestigious awards, including a nomination for the European Mies van der Rohe Award for architecture, the Austrian Staatspreis Architektur, the City of Vienna Award, and an award for sustainability for the first car-free IKEA in Vienna and the Austrian pavilion for the World Expo in Dubai. The studio also represented Austria in 2004 at the Venice Biennale. The works of querkraft have been published in professional magazines and showcased at international exhibitions in Venice, Tokyo, Shanghai, Ljubljana, Boston, Bristol, and other cities. The motto of the office is friendship, respect, and joy in work.
The visiting studio aims to bring inspiring architects, current topics, and new teaching methods to the faculty. After Winy Maas, our faculty has successfully attracted further prominent figures in contemporary European architecture. “querkraft is one of the best architectural studios in Vienna, and I greatly appreciate that Jakob Dunkl, Gerd Erhartt, and Peter Sapp will be serving as visiting professors at our faculty. querkraft means 'crossing force.' The motto of the studio is moderation, using as few resources as possible, and creating smart architecture with minimal technology. The studio always focuses on people, on simple but strong solutions, designing buildings that people will love and that will therefore be sustainable,” says Dalibor Hlaváček, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of CTU.
As visiting professors, querkraft will focus on the unfinished department store Lamarr in Vienna, designed by the OMA office, which has been awaiting completion since the bankruptcy of the investor. The task for the students will be to breathe new life into the building in the form of a hybrid object for living, working, leisure, and cultural use.
“Together with our students, we will seek poetry and beauty in architecture. We will ask whether the building is functional and sustainable, whether people will be happy in it, or whether merely looking at it can bring joy. Architecture that is loved will be cared for and will live on for a long time. Love is the best form of sustainability,” explain the concept of the school studio by the new visiting professors.
Since this year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka, the Prague and Vienna writer, the proposal will also include the placement of a museum directly within the building. The transformation – Kafka's most famous work – will thus become the theme of the project for Czech students under the guidance of Vienna architects.
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