WOHNRAUMWERK - Maik Novotny, LORENZATELIERS
ISBN-10: 3200054719
280 pages with more than 500 pictures, essays by architecture journalist Maik Novotny and art historian Iris Meder, interviews with three directors of non-profit Viennese property developers (Wilhelm Zechner, Ewald Kirschner, Alfred Petritz) and an introduction by Peter Lorenz.
With its content ranging from the banlieues of Paris to the residential blocks of the Red Vienna, the concept of space in architecture to the present realities of housing construction, WOHNRAUMWERK is much more than a monograph. It is a theoretical, pragmatic and visual condensation of the essence and spatial presence of the living itself.
Introduced by a poetic photographic essay on the diverse global forms of living together, a selection of projects by LORENZATELIERS forms the core of the book. This selection ranges from the densely built-up yet spacious development that evokes the urban sensibility of Viennese residential buildings, the interactions with topography and landscape and reinterpretations of the city villa in Innsbruck, to a wide view of the Mediterranean Sea from the terrace in Trieste.
The background, design processes and often protracted struggles on the way to realization of these projects are not hidden, but form an essential part of the documentation. WOHNRAUMWERK is an invitation to think about living, and a suggestion to look at residential buildings and living spaces
