(AU) Ernst J. Fuchs and Marie Therese Harnoncourt are graduates of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where they were, in particular, students of Wolf D. Prix, and have been working together since the early 1990s. In 1994, in Vienna, they founded the Poor Boy's Enterprise with Florian Haydn, which became the nextENTERprise, after the latter's departure in 2000. As authors of artistic and experimental installations (Zustands Design, 1991-2000) and rare but demanding architectural works (Zirl House, 1997; Message in the Bottle, 2000), these two Viennese architects single out the importance of form (for which they eschew any kind of preconception) solely by validating the complex processes of which it is the product. The work involved in a project procedes, above all, for them, through a gradual updating of a specific and original procedure capable of "fertilizing" all the erratic and fragmentary data provided, unselectively, by the situation--this is a procedure capable of progressively organizing these primary conditions within a conscious development, and within a formal and conceptual formulation. This architecture, which is available to itself, is offered, in all its complexity, for housing..

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Harnoncourt (Marie Therese) (1967), Fuchs (Ernst J.) (1963)
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