LECTURE: VIDIC GROHAR ARHITEKTI · INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Beyond the Pavilion:
Curating Well–Tempered Architectures
Vidic Grohar Arhitekti
MODERATED BY TINA GREGORIC & THOMAS AMANN
TUE, 26.11.2024, 18:00 – HÖRSAAL 17, TU WIEN

Anja Vidic and Jure Grohar, architects and co-curators of the highly acclaimed Slovenian Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, will reflect upon the development and conceptualization of the pavillon, aimed to explore the theme of ecology and the paradoxical ways in which architecture relates to it. The project titled +/- 1 °C: In Search of Well-Tempered Architecture addresses the theme of ecology holistically, as an integral part of architectural design. It focuses on regaining often forgotten knowledge of energy-efficient design principles from an incredible array of vernacular buildings across Europe. In this quest for alternatives to often paradoxical existing energy-efficient building systems, the curators invited fifty European architects and creatives to extensively research and analyze historical regional examples of intuitive, common sense approaches. The lecture will focus on the curatorial strategy and discuss the project's afterlife beyond the Biennale.

Over the past decade, ecology has had a significant impact on the development of the architectural discipline. In architecture, ecology is most often understood as “energy efficiency”, which typically addresses the issue of ecology with technology hidden between the walls. “Energy efficiency” is thus not the starting point of the architectural design process – nor integral to it – but an entirely separate, independent component of the building.
In search of an alternative to existing building systems, the authors of +/– 1 °C: In Search of Well-Tempered Architecture project, together with fifty European architects and creatives, researched and analysed examples of vernacular buildings from Europe that, unlike current contemporary practice, address the issue of ecology holistically, as an integral part of the architectural design. Vernacular architecture is thus understood as a living example of energy principles that are relevant for the present time and that can be used as a basis for a critical reinterpretation of contemporary architectural production.

Vidic Grohar Arhitekti was founded in Ljubljana in 2016 by Anja Vidic, a teacher at the Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture, and Jure Grohar, a PhD architect. In their projects, they do not follow a pre-set architectural agenda, but freely develop new specific architectural, design, and curatorial solutions through the rearticulation of given situations. As design critics they were invited and held lectures at the University of Limerick, TU Dublin, MOME Budapest, TU Berlin and TU Vienna. Their work has been most recently presented as part of the international project Objects of Fascination in Brussels (MAD Brussels) and Paris (Pavillon de l'Arsenal), and the New Praxes, New Tools event in Ljubljana (ŠKUC Gallery), Berlin (AEDES Metrolab), and Vienna (TU Vienna). Together with Mertelj Vrabič Arhitekti they were authors of The Pavilion of Slovenia at The 18th Venice Architecture Biennale 2023.

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HEIKE MAIER-RIEPER

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HEIMO ZOBERNIG

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LECTURE:
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EXHIBITION:
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