Hermann & Valentiny and Partners

BOOKS AND SELF-PUBLISHED WORKS

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CODES, Hermann & Valentiny and Partners | Birkhäuser

2008, CODES, Herrmann & Valentiny and Partners, | Waechter-Böhm, Liesbeth | Birkhäuser, Basel-Boston-Berlin | ISBN 978-3-7643-8767-9

Résumés of common knowledge, the cultural codes provide the syllogisms in the narrative (there are many, as we have seen) with their major premise, based always on public opinion ("probable," as the old logic said), on an endoxal truth, i n short, on the discourse of others. But, inversely and complementarily (...): all the cultural codes, taken up from citation to citation, together form an oddly joined miniature version of encyclopaedic knowledge, a farrago: this farrago forms the everyday "reality" in relation to which the subject adapts himself, lives. One defect in this encyclopedia, one hole in this cultural fabric, and death can result.
Roland Barthes, S/Z
with a foreword by Ingeborg Flagge

DIE GESCHICHTE DER SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE | Jung & Jung

Die Bauten der Salzburger Festspiele von 1894 bis 2006 | Wilhelm Hozbauer, François Valentiny | Jung & Jung, Salzburg und Wien | ISBN 3-902497-16-5,978-3-902497-16-1

The history of the Salzburg festival plays an important role in the realisation of this lofty project. The integration of the existing buildings from Fischer von Erlachs was not a requirement. However, it was a nice thought to connect the history of the town to the talents of the festival. Then it was Clemens Holzmeister who succeeded in uniting three venues under a roof and, admittedly, the small festival performance house soon turned out to become a little ideal to give a frame suited for theatre to productions for small productions. Thus emerged the idea of a new concept the "house for Mozart" which came true, finally, with alllen consequences also for the facade of the whole festival performance tract in the year of the Mozart's 250th birthday.

JETZT / NOW, Hermann & Valentiny and Partners | Birkhäuser

2001, CODES, Herrmann & Valentiny and Partners, | Waechter-Böhm, Liesbeth | Birkhäuser, Basel-Boston-Berlin | ISBN 3-7643-6337-1

Hermann & Valentiny first came to public attention in the 1980s with their villa in the Rauchstrasse, a part of the International Building Exhibition in Berlin, when postmodernism was at its peak in Europe. Since then the office which is based in Vienna and Remerschen has built in Austria, Luxembourg and Germany, and its architecture has progressed in both form and content. Representing Luxembourg at the architecture biennale in Venice, Hermann & Valentiny reveal how architecture and art can be successfully combined.
This up-to-date report "Now" illustrates how conceptual questions and a comparatively restricted choice of materials dominate the work of Hermann & Valentiny. Wherever possible they use concrete to replace plaster; glass maintains its unique role; metal mesh acts as a membrane, allowing historical architecture to shimmer through. Moreover, colour has a special function in their architecture. Not just black and white, but also tomato red, melon yellow, peppermint green... Finally, the book reveals the architects' general concepts which incorporate the living, the natural surroundings in the plans.
with a foreword by Masimiliano Fuksas

HERMANN & VALENTINY | Edition Baumeister, Callwey

1995, HERMANN & VALENTINY | Wolfgang Bachmann | Edition Baumeister, Callwey | ISBN 3-7667-1181-4

Luxemburg an Vienna are geographical poles of the architecture by Hubert Hermann and François Valentiny. They run offices in both places; they work and build in both places. Two different architectural traditions, the urban context of Vienna and the vineyard landscape of Luxemburg, are both reflected in their idiom. The partnership was founded when they were architecture students in Vienna under Wilhelm Holzbauer. Through to the present day the interaction bettween the artistic and architectural work is charakteristic for their approch. In the free media of drawings and sculptures is reflected and proposed waht will be built. Determined also by the emphasis on residential and urban planning their interest has recently moved from a formal toward a funcional starting point. In the process the closed building volumes become open and multi-layer structures. The project documentation and interviews with the architects provide information on their working methods and architectural aims.

HERMANN & VALENTINY, Architects | Karl Krämer

1991, HERMANN & VALENTINY, Architects | Karl Krämer Verlag Stuttgart

Projects and concepts in urban architecture of Hermann and Valentiny are attractively presented in this publication. The aim of the book is to convey the adventure of the architects' creativity, to demonstrate how a vision can be grasped and captured. For Hermann & Valentiny, visualisation is a process which, through the tense relationship between emotion and reason, is characterised by pragmatism and creativity. Their architecture is distinguished by the sensitive appreciation of physical realities, and by the way in which matreial, light, colour and forms are imbued with the Genius Loci. The drawings and projects exhited here, mostly in colour, document the yearning for a poetic architecture of the senses, which strives for continuity and for a relationship with the past. An important backdrop and also the emotional basis for the work of Hermann and Valentiny is the constant alternation between Vienna and Luxemburg an the resulting confrotation of two different building traditions. This backdrop is a source of reflection for the architects in the search for adequate forms of expression in contemporary architecture

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