bad architects group

Profile of bad architects group

Business Name

bad architects group

Location

Austria

Services

Architecture

Website

http://www.bad-architects.gp

Principal(s)

Ursula Faix

Ursula Faix, studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna, and at Rhode Island School of Design, USA.

Paul Burgstaller

Paul Burgstaller, studied architecture at the University of Innsbruck.

Philosophy

bad architects group is an international orientated architecture office operating from Innsbruck, Austria, co-founded by Ursula Faix and Paul Burgstaller. The office is collaborating with bad-architects network, an emerging internet-based network of young architects, co-founded in May 2004. Next to designing projects for intelligent clients, bad architects group is devoted to developing new tools for exploring the phenomena of the urban condition in the digital age and has exhibited and published several projects. Since 2007 bad architects group is a permanent lecturer for urban design at the University for Business and Technology (UBT) in Prishtina, Kosova.

Background

• Founded: 2006
• Offices: 1
• Design team: 5

Key projects

• "BARENTS DEBRIS - Urban Risk", Architectur Triennale Oslo - Urban strategies (with bad-architects network), 2007
• "Open Air Cinema Leopoldskron-Moos", Salzburg, Osterreich (with Gubi, Kick, Kneringer), 2007
• "Moving Noise Barrier", Landeck, Austria, 2006-2007
• "The POWER of UNESCO World Heritage", Architecture Biennale Rotterdam - Urban strategies, 2006-2007
• "Office J14", Innsbruck, Austria, 2006-2007
• "Villa Rans" / "Office Rans", Innsbruck, Austria, 2005-2006
• "I love diploma", Innsbruck, Austria, 2005-2006
• "StudioWeekendLoft" Klagenfurt, Austria, 2005
• "de-TRO-it" Detroit, USA, shrinking cities competition, Winning project (with bad-architects network), 2004-2005
• "Library Humboldt University Berlin", Berlin, Germany (with bad-architects network), 2004

Key publications

• "monu. Magazine on Urbanism #07" NY/Kassel Thomas Sohl, Bernd Upmeyer (ed.) 2007
• "Visionary Power. Producing the Contemporary City" NAi publishers, Rotterdam 2007
• "Design Like You Give a Damn" Thames and Hudson, London 2006
• "SUB-city" in Tiroler Kulturberichte, Land Tirol, Innsbruck 2006
• "archplus 173 shrinking cities - DE-tro-IT" ARCH+ Verlag, Aachen, Germany 2005
• "monu. Magazine on Urbanism #03" NY/Kassel Thomas Sohl, Bernd Upmeyer (ed.) 2005
• "Shrinking Cities. Interventions", Philipp Oswalt (ed.) Hatje-Cantz, Germany 2005
• "GAM01. Grazer Architecture Magazine" Springer Verlag, Basel 2004
• "Making Art of Databases" V2_publishing/NAi publishers, Rotterdam 2003

Key awards

• Winning project at Shrinking Cities competition: "de-TRO-it" Detroit, USA, (with bad-architects network), 2004-2005
• Participation: "3rd International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam", Kunsthal, Rotterdam, 2007
• Participation: "3rd Architecture Triennale Oslo 2007", DogA, Oslo (with bad-architects network), 2007