Was Gebäude lehren: Das Steinhaus (What Buildings Teach – The Steinhaus)
︎︎︎ Exhibition in & design studio / research about Domenig’s Steinhaus
“The basic idea, which I don't want to abandon, is the Steinhaus as a workshop for architecture. It should become a school of architecture and this school should be used, if possible, by the universities of the world.”
Günther Domenig, ORF, 2002
︎︎︎ Exhibition in & design studio / research about Domenig’s Steinhaus
Domenig envisioned the Steinhaus as a seminar building for architecture students or a personalized residence, a psychogram of his life. It functions as a built architectural thesis, an artifact, a sculpture, a research project, a protest against mundane life, and a hybrid of art and construction. The building functions as an experimental “laboratory in which it is all about liminal values” (Walter Pichler), a machine of unpredictability that reflects the processes of open design.
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Design Studio Winter 2023/24
The students' nine analytical drawings are reflexively turned into a guest residence, incorporating new and renewed spaces, suspended and retreat areas, high and deep paths that traverse and separate interior and exterior spaces, and integrating old and new objects, meanings, and memories.
Design Studio Winter 2023/24
It organizes and gathers diversity through its numerous biographical and architectural elements, objects, landscapes and scenes. These lessons from the Steinhaus were the focus of our research and analysis, primarily through drawings of building elements and spatial relationships, and the creation of a detailed 3D model based on plans and sections from the literature.
The Steinhaus's ecologies, described in regional, object, and detail-related scale analyses, reveal a complex spatial structure open to discovery. As a Gesamtkunstwerk and political statement without obvious utilization, it remains open-ended and fragmentary. The exhibition addresses the question of how the Steinhaus is embedded in the landscape around Lake Ossiach at various scales. The graphic analyses at display allow programmatic, typological, and tectonic conclusions to be drawn, which are further developed in exemplary design approaches. The Steinhaus's most essential lesson is its undogmatic uncompromising nature. It teaches that every design is open to multiple directions and interpretations, both as a discursive and tangible architectural object.
The Steinhaus's ecologies, described in regional, object, and detail-related scale analyses, reveal a complex spatial structure open to discovery. As a Gesamtkunstwerk and political statement without obvious utilization, it remains open-ended and fragmentary. The exhibition addresses the question of how the Steinhaus is embedded in the landscape around Lake Ossiach at various scales. The graphic analyses at display allow programmatic, typological, and tectonic conclusions to be drawn, which are further developed in exemplary design approaches. The Steinhaus's most essential lesson is its undogmatic uncompromising nature. It teaches that every design is open to multiple directions and interpretations, both as a discursive and tangible architectural object.
The students' nine analytical drawings are reflexively turned into a guest residence, incorporating new and renewed spaces, suspended and retreat areas, high and deep paths that traverse and separate interior and exterior spaces, and integrating old and new objects, meanings, and memories.
Info-Folder
The exhibition features results of two TU Graz classes on Domenig’s Steinhaus in an exhibition held in Domenig’s Steinhaus in Steindorf at Lake Ossiach. The exhibition shows multi-layered design ideas and architectural connections and presents them in drawings and models.
The exhibition on Günther Domenig’s Steinhaus takes place in the Steinhaus from June 6 to August 3 2024 in cooperation with Steinhaus Günther Domenig Privatstiftung and Architektur Haus Kärnten and is curated by TU Graz professors Daniel Gethmann and Andreas Lechner.
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Three-fold brochure (German)
The exhibition on Günther Domenig’s Steinhaus takes place in the Steinhaus from June 6 to August 3 2024 in cooperation with Steinhaus Günther Domenig Privatstiftung and Architektur Haus Kärnten and is curated by TU Graz professors Daniel Gethmann and Andreas Lechner.
Three-fold brochure (German)
Günther Domenig’s Steinhaus, June 2024
© Helga Rader
Photos from exhibition opening: © Helga Rader
Students:
Fevzi Akbaş, Anastasia Bernatska, Lisa Maria Bierbauer, Bettina Deutsch, Sumeja Duranović, Stefanie Frauenthaler, Angelina Frey, Adrian Gahn, Egli Hasmegaj, Hermann Hofer, Christopher Jonas, Aline Mayr, Melvin McArthur, Lukas Meikl, Mariangel Moreno Arestegui, Sophia Pechmann, Gloria Perković, Nuša Šantl, Catharina Stacher, Daniela Todd Maldonado, Ella Van Gassen, Gregor Wallner, Julia Westreicher
Professors:
Daniel Gethmann (Institute of Architectural Theory, Art History and Cultural Studies, TU Graz)
Andreas Lechner (Institute of Design and Building Typologies, TU Graz)
Attemsgasse 11
8010 Graz, Austria
Staatlich befugter und beeideter Ziviltechniker
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