Line Of stands for an integrative artistic, conceptual and technical approach to exploring the possibilities of architecture. The work includes projects, built commissions and experimental research and understands architecture holistically as part of historical and visionary processes. It is a platform, on which the educational experience is brought in connection with practice and seen as crucial to the continual development of architectural ideas. The selected projects highlight a spectrum of work produced by Karolin Schmidbaur in independent as well as collaborative practice.
Vision
We see Architecture as a part of our culture with the potential to influence the development of our lives and society. As architects, it is our challenge to accept this as our responsibility and to sense and uncover codes for present and future developments.
We regard our present time of profound change as a potential to sharpen an attitude with which to navigate the multidimensional field of possibilities of coexisting old and new systems of order, and to use it consciously to develop alternative ways of perception and production of order.
Attitude in this context does not mean rigid concepts or linear methods with which to develop architecture, but rather a set of values to navigate and argue an open-ended process that includes a multitude of tools at hand, and in which intuition and individual form intention are decisive forces.
We are witnessing a growing trend towards automation (and collectivism) in all areas of our lives, yet we are also increasingly occupied with topics like consciousness, universal knowledge, individuation and social awareness.
We do not believe that solutions can lie in one or the other area of thought, but rather in their synthesis, in the coexistence of the material and the immaterial, the analog and the digital, the poetic and the rational, the intuitive and the factual, the elemental and the innovative, the ethical and aesthetical, craft and technological intelligence.
In these we look for alternative ways of perception, a new dimension of order that changes our relationship to the world as well as to ourselves.
Link to WIA What is Architecture?
Link to ‘Connections – Empathic Dialogue’ Text
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