29/03/2017
Join us tomorrow for the lecture of Klaus Stattmann 'AT A SECOND GLIMPSE'.
IoA, Institute of Architecture - University of Applied Arts Vienna
Cross Over Studio, led by
Energy Design and Urban Strategies, working
on Urban Ecologies 4.0
Thursday, March 30th 2017, 18:00 | Seminarraum 14
"In a first step, the order of the list with Luhmann as a system can be minimized reduction. The domain of the cunning is the terrain vague of the contiguous; Its object, the singular event, the sensory perception, the language; The time of cunning: the moment (Kairos), the suddenness (of chance), the discontinuity; Their method: tactics, strategy; The status of cunning knowledge: the probability (not the truth); The subject of cunning: not The philosopher Plato and not the self of Descartes, but a subject which can be determined as a strategos - the one who knows the possible strategies … “
Klaus Stattmann
was born in 1963 in Villach, Austria. In 1993 he graduated at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna where he set up his office. He participated in numerous international exhibitions; in 2003 he was one of the representatives of the Austrian contribution to the 5th Architecture Biennial Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 2006 his work is shown in the exhibition “Rock over Barock” at the Architecture Biennial in Venice, Italy. In 2006 he was Visiting Professor at Da-Yeh University in Taiwan. He lectured at the ETH Zürich, UDK Berlin and at the HCU Hamburg. Furthermore, he is working on research projects focusing on architecture and performativity (Theodor Körner Award of the city of Vienna, Austria, 1997). In 2004 he was co-curator for the exhibition “Reserve of Form” at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna, and he is editor of the accompaning publication. Important projects built include the “Kinsky House” in Lower Austria (2000- , with Ernst. J. Fuchs), “Zwischenraum (Interspace) Mistelbach”, a performative housing for an art work in Mistelbach, Austria (2005), and the Fluc & Fluc_Wanne, a bar and music club in a pedestrian underpass in Vienna (2006) which was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2007 and thereby selected for the 33 relevant projects.