In mannerism it might seem to resemble a workshop or art studio. Yet it produces buildings of a substantial scale– a housing block of 97 apartments in Madrid, 21,000 square metres university facility buildings in Vienna and a architectural school in Brisbane, Australia. The studio pursues all sorts of design challenges from pack-up-and-go inflatable to temporary structure and from culture, institution building to investigating the potential of urban areas. All these, as well as the moderately scaled pavilions, bridges or truly experimental projects are treated equally as an opportunity to explore alternatives to the architecture of ‘polite modernism’ with which everyone is familiar. No configuration, combination of techniques, of materials or of constructible alternatives is creatively rejected.
