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ORTLOS Christmas Special | 17/12/08

As a temporary installation and for sustainable purposes, ORTLOS has implemented a gallery into empty shop. Lounge & Exhibition, Art & Design in a very cozy electronically augmented environment can be experienced one week long in Graz. Here is some additional information.
Open daily from 10am to 2pm until the 19th of December, ending with big party at Friday night.

Digital Architecture Now | 20/11/08

Neil Spiller, a visionary architect, has published the work of ORTLOS among others in his new book "Digital Architecture Now". It is a great honor to be included in this world-wide survey of emerging talent.
Presenting the hottest architectural visionaries from around the world, "Digital Architecture Now" celebrates the conceptual architects who are pushing digital design and software to their limits. In his introduction and concluding essay, Neil Spiller places this contemporary work in the context of recent developments and considers the future direction of digital architecture. The heart of the book features architects' best projects, presented in vivid, colourful and breathtaking detail through texts, plans and renderings that challenge our assumptions about 3-D space and redefine the future of architecture.
More info here.

ORTLOS at La Biennale di Venezia | 08/10/08

ORTLOS space engineering has been invited to lead a design laboratory at the "small unsuspicious academy of subversion"
in the frame of SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE at the 11th international architecture exhibition La Biennale di Venezia.

"Sensitive Space, 7/24" within "Sense of Architecture" is an experimental lab with a trans-disciplinary team dealing with the relationship between architecture and program.
With the technological progress of 21st century we finally have the option, actual infinitive potentialities, to achieve an "on-demand" behaviour of space within networked augmented reality. All acting areas of "sensitive space", including production, social communication, data flow and soundscape, can be unified into a single continuum. Processing and performance of this "sensitive space" will be presented within a temporary installation, on which the team will work 7 days and nights - 24 hours long (7/24), mapped and navigated by networked sound nodes distributed through several city locations, creating "a geo-tagged cloud" of visual and acoustic information-space.

There will be update daily and more info here.

Team:
Processing: ORTLOS space engineering with composer Beat Furrer [A] and students of Graz University of Technology.
Inputs: Georg Flachbart, Philosopher, mind(21)factory [D], Sven Havemann, TU-Graz Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualisation [A], Frank Kappe, TU-Graz, Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media [A], Emil Gruber, Photographer [A].

Location: Scuola dei Mercanti, Campo della Madonna dell' Orto, Venezia.

Fri // 10.10. // 6pm
OPENING of the Academy
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Piccolo Theatro

Sun // 12.10. // 4pm
Lecture: BEAT FURRER "Fama"
Scuola dei Mercanti, Campo Madonna dell'Orto, Cannaregio 3933

Mon // 13.10. // 4pm
Roundtable: "Sensitive Space"
ORTLOS (Architects, Graz)
MARCOS NOVAK (Artist, Architect, Los Angeles)
Moderation: FRANCESCO MONICO (NABA, Milan) Scuola dei Mercanti, Campo Madonna dell'Orto, Cannaregio 3933

Sat // 18.10. // 11am-5pm
Open Lab
Presentation: Virtual Demonstrator "Sensitive Space 7/24", Scuola dei Mercanti, Campo Madonna dell'Orto, Cannaregio 3933

ORTLOS - Space Engineering | 27/06/08

A new star has been born. ORTLOS - Space Engineering has a new web site, presenting the main product: City Lab. Take a look here.

ORTLOS – SPACE ENGINEERING – IS AN IMMERSIVE SPACES DESIGN STUDIO, WHICH IS DEVELOPING VIRTUAL WORLDS AND AUGMENTED REALITIES AS A NEW CHANNEL TO ENGAGE IN COMMUNITIES, REACH CONSUMERS, AND BUILD BRAND EXPERIENCES.

Assembly Festival | 02/06/08

Temporary shops - Fashion show - Exhibitions - Workshops - Installations - Performances - Concerts - Parties. Designzone Annenstraße, Graz
Fashion Design – Product Design – Graphic Design – Architecture - Art.

Our proposal for Graz 8020 - the implementation of a Boulevard of Production in Annenstrasse – is a magnet, an attractor, a formula. Looking back, catapulting ahead, it is a real innovation, because astoundingly simple: plug in & play. Nothing new really – Golem Reloaded. A result of our three-year research.

3. Juni 2008 / Medienkunstlabor / Graz
19:00 City Upgrade Präsentation
20:00 Round Table: No Folly > No Invention > No Innovation
21:00 DJ & Visuals

31. Mai – 6. Juni / Medienkunstlabor / Graz
Installation: Public Interaction - Fliegen wie ein Vogel - Berührungslose Navigation durch ein virtuelles 3D-Modell der Annenstrasse
ORTLOS space engineering & Institut für ComputerGraphik und WissensVisualisierung (CGV), TU Graz, Ulrich Krispel, Sven Havemann, (Chef: Prof. Fellner)

More info: LINK

Project Section Update | 11/03/08

We have made an update of the architecture section by adding some new projects. You may want to take a look by clicking a link on the right hand side "ortlos architecture" or by using the direct link.

Club Future Public Discussion | 17/11/07

Club Zukunft (Future) regularly holds a series of events from the Department of Economic and Tourism Development provided for Graz entrepreneurs, experts connected to the university, politicians and the media. The participants discuss current topics and exchange information about developments, trends and visions over the next five to ten years.

ORTLOS architects have been invited to discuss the future of design and common understanding of it based on aesthetical issues.
It is a good chance to introduce new strategies in understandings of design possibilities for the 21st century beyond the aesthetics. Andrea Redi will be also at the round table, with other experts related to this topic. So join in if you are around, or read in german here.

City Upgrade Conference | 15/11/07

City Upgrade – The High-spirited Networked City.
conference link

TU Graz / Hörsaal 2, Rechbauerstr. 12,
Nov. 22, 2007, at 16:00

Conference Moderation: Charlotte Pöchhacker, Director of Artimage Graz
PART 1 // 16.00 – 18.00
1. Golem Reloaded: The Introductory Story performed by Miss Folly // 10 min //
with Jaschka Lämmert, Schauspielhaus Graz

2. Opening Words // 15 min //
Andrea Redi, ORTLOS architects, Graz & Charlotte Pöchhacker, Artimage, Graz

3. Vibrant Agonistic Public Spheres // 20 min //
Chantal Mouffe, Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, London … on the space of democracy and the democracy of space

4. Architecture: From Location to Nonlocation, from Presence to Absence // 30 min //
Peter Weibel, Chair and CEO of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe … on a new dynamic concept of space characterized by immateriality and nonlocality: for more democracy

5. City Upgrade: The High-spirited Networked City // 40 min //
City Upgrade Team presents results of its four-year transdisciplinary project 2003–2007: Ivan Redi, ORTLOS architects (A) / Georg Flachbart, mind(21)factory (D) / Grigor Doytchinov, TU Graz – Institute for Urban Development (A) / Sven Havemann, TU Graz – Institute for Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualisation (A) … on a city upgrade through less: democracy realized

further involved in the project: Emil Gruber – (A) / Martin Krusche (A) / Vincent Cellier, JVC architecture (F) / MACHFELD (A) / Manfred Bogen, Fraunhofer Institut Intelligente Analyse und Informationssysteme (D), SPLITTERWERK (A) / SU.N (SpaceUnitNetwork) (A) / WSKKFV Oswald, Peschl (A) / reMI, (A, NL ,D) / Anke Strittmatter, osa 2 - office for subversive architecture (A, D) / Kerstin Höger, ETH Zürich – Institut für Urbanismus (CH)

Break // 18.00 - 18.30 // coffee, cakes & drinks, Presentation City Upgrade in Second Life
PART 2 // 18.30 – 20.30

6. The Well Connected City // 30 min //
Nick Leon, Visiting Fellow of Tanaka Business School, Director of Urban Programmes ThinkPlayDo Group at the Imperial College London … on historical parallels between transforming impact of electricity and IT, digital switchover, and on playful nature of cities intensifying innovation

7. Negotiating Boundaries: Architecture as a Responsive Medium // 30 min //
Winka Dubbeldam, Principal Archi-Tectonics, New York … on possible intersections of living and working & real and virtual space in today's urban architecture intensifying innovation

8. Round table with lecturers // 19.45 – 20.30 // 45 min //
Trigger talk “From Real to Virtual to Annenstraße” by Eberhard Schrempf, Director of Creative Industries Styria

Conference Concept

City Upgrade – the High-spirited Networked City

"If talent magnet developments can get the formula right, they will probably become key to urban competitiveness in the twenty-first century". _William J. Mitchell

A hard fact to start with: Our society is going through a transition that is crazier and riskier than ever. It is partly a result of globalization, partly of the Digital Revolution and the information-based economy it has spawned. By freeing us from physical boundaries and physical assets, it has made us both more flexible and more vulnerable to competitors of all kinds. And: It forces us to radically rethink just how long not only business companies, but well-established institutions and even cities too, can survive and thrive.

In today's fast-moving, transnational reality, which can best be characterized as a turbulent maelstrom of ceaseless innovation and change, i.e. uncertain and volatile, European cities, regardless of their ranking, need to act like businesses, i.e. as competitors struggling to attract talents from all over the world – the hottest ingredient of economic success in the near future, uncertain and volatile, too.

To succeed in this struggle, new socio-spatial configurations are required – vibrant agonistic public spheres (Ch. Mouffe) – in which technology, economic and institutional organizations, social relationships, and spatial structures are very closely intertwined, thus enabling all kinds of possibilities for expanding individual opportunity, transforming the structure of work, and creating the future of Europe on its way from the background-based world to the talent-based and performance-based world of universal urbanism. A necessary prerequisite for this is a new dynamic concept of space that is enhanced by dimensions immateriality and nonlocation (P. Weibel), thus propelling emergence of the new (innovation, change) in an unprecedented way. Keyword: Imagination Economy – the future of Europe.

And it is this scrutinizing of the empowering potential of such new socio-spatial configurations, enhanced by dimensions immateriality and nonlocation, that is the formidable challenge of the conference City Upgrade – the High-spirited Networked City, based on the principle of shared research interests. Experts from internationally renowned scientific institutions, research labs and architectural studios will help us get results and, in doing so, come closer in making our vision of Boulevard of Production in Graz 8020 come true.

Focused, well-designed, fast-paced, and free of charge, the conference will also feature a very special guest – Miss Folly – performing the introductory story.

ORTLOS in Second Life | 09/10/07

Our new "Space Engineering" concept has just reached an other step. Join us at Ortlos Island in Second Life, to build environments of the future.

Dialogue Clutures of Habitation | 02/07/07

On Sunday, July 8th 2007 at 7.00 pm the 9th Architecture Dialogue of the Architecture Laboratory Styria will take place in Belgrade (Art Gallery Center, Knez Mihailova 6), focussing on the topic of “CULTURES OF HABITATION”.
The ORTLOS architects among others, will converse with their Serbian colleagues about current habitation programs and about potential new definitions of social housing in our times. In discussions on the ongoing social demands and realities of both countries, the dialogue aims at examining the notion of the “public” on an exemplary basis.

Great ORTLOS photography success | 29/06/07

Emil Gruber will be part of the selection of the hype street photography exhibition in Arles, France. Only 30 photos among over 10.000 entries worldwide were chosen for this event by Stuart Franklin, the president of the famous photo agency Magnum.

Les rencontres d’Arles is one of the important festivals for contemporary photographie. For more click here

ORTLOS in Berlin - in discussion | 05/01/07

In the framework of the exhibition "Sense of Architecture", a discussion with the topic "Art and architectural sculptural tendencies and productive ambiguities" has been initiated by the Architecture Laboratory Styria.
At Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Berlin, on 10th of January, 19:00, a dialog between ORTLOS architects and International Festival, among others, will be open to the public, with the topic: "Performative strategies for the space production".
Here is a short description in German:
"Bewusst angelegte Offenheit und Unbestimmtheit sind auch für die Arbeitsweise des Architekturbüros ORTLOS bestimmende Parameter. Im Rahmen des Architekturdialoges werden Andrea Redi und Ivan Redi über die performativen Strategien zur Raumproduktion von ORTLOS architects sprechen und speziell anhand der jüngsten Projekte "City Upgrade", „The Theatre“ und „Choreographers' Venture“ im Dialog mit dem international bekannten schwedischen Performer, Choreographen und Theoretiker Marten Spangberg, und dem schwedischen Architekten Tor Lindstrand von International Festival, eine neue Orientierung am Körper und Raumbegriff ausloten."

ORTLOS lecture in Belgrade | 28/11/06

In organization by „Center Tesla“ and gallery “SUPERSPACE” a lecture by ORTLOS architects “Architecture of the Networks – New strategies in architecture and design” will be held on 8th of December at 19:00 in Belgrade. The address is Galerija Superspace, Karadjordjeva 2, Beograd, Serbia. A special focus for this talk will be the work of the visionary physicist Nikola Tesla.
Also a lecture will be given on 9th of December 11:00 at Architectural Department in Novi Sad (Amphitheater Ranko Radovic). This one is organized by Ministry for Architecture and Urbanism, Architectural Society of Novi Sad and Architectural Department. The address of this happening is: Trg Dositeja Obradovica 6.

Nick's Cave Trailer finished!!! | 03/10/06

ORTLOS architects work like mad for 6(!!) months to finish the trailer, for the 30 minutes movie we are planning to do. Now the 3:30 min output is here and it looks really cool. Check it out here.

Nick’s Cave is a story about mid-thirties person who decides to withdraw himself to self build virtual cave, an asylum in order to plan his revenge upon his biggest enemy: small city where he grew up and its middle-class people. But even with his 6 virtual clones (each representing one sense) and his wishful digital environment he created, he is still missing something ineffable. Only a keen plan can lead him to the final cognition.

Stay tuned and watch out for the news, when the final movie is finished and it hits all major cinemas :-)

Prize for ORTLOS book | 08/08/06

The book "ORTLOS :: Architecture of the NetWORKS" by ORTLOS architects and David Carson, with introduction by Thom Mayne, just won another prize! It was for Print's Magazine's Best Design award from the United States region.
We are extremely happy that our book has such good response and has received a very competitive design award.

ORTLOS @ Impulstanz Vienna | 29/06/06

For almost a month (July 17 - August 11) the temporary headquarter of ORTLOS architects will be Vienna, where ORTLOS architects will work together with 15 students in the workshop framework of the world famous Impulstanz dance festival.
We have followed the invitation by Marten Spangberg, since this exciting interdisciplinary collaboration between architects, dancers, performers, and others is very much connected to the Theater project we are working right now. So check it out here.

ORTLOS book at Interarch | 14/05/06

"ORTLOS : Architecture of the NetWORKS" book has been presented at the 11th world triennial of architecture Interarch in Sofia, Bulgaria. The good news are: our book won the third price at the international selection of books and publications.
It was also a chance to pay a visit to this very interesting booming country.

International Festival in London | 09/05/06

The interdisciplinary crew of the International Festival met this time in London for the project “The Theatre”. This event took place in the gallery Gasworks close to the Oval. As Mr. Spanberg, one of the bosses, put it out: „The enthusiasm was excellent, disagreements fundamental and absolutely superficial.“
ORTLOS architects presented A.N.D.I. project and gave introduction to the working experience gained through the project „City Upgrade“.

Conference CAADRIA 2006 | 22/03/06

ORTLOS architects will take a part at the CAADRIA conference held this year in Kumamoto, Japan. We are chosen for one of 14 long paper presentations among submitted 185 abstracts from 26 countries worldwide. Our session will be on March the 31st.
The main focus of our lecture will be of course A.N.D.I. A New Digital Instrument for creative networked collaboration in architecture and net.art, but especially under the aspect of first implementation, dissemination and tests during the "City Upgrade" project last year.
CAADRIA was established on 26 April 1996, with aim to exchange ideas and collaborating on research activities regarding the development of CAAD technology. This year’s topic will be "Rhythm and Harmony in the Bit-Sphere".
Find out more about this by following this link.

ORTLOS in Stockholm | 02/02/06

ORTLOS architects will be part of International Festival – The Theatre - seminar, which will be held at Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm 3-5 February 2006.
In a series of gatherings relations between architecture and performance will be discussed, regurgitated, transformed and shared in a fireworks of conversations, coffee breaks, lectures, film showings and other kinds of presentations. For more info follow this link.

First book presentation | 15/12/05

First official presentation of ORTLOS architects new book "ORTLOS :: Architecture of the NetWORKS" will be held at Graz Stadtmuseum and organized by director Otto Hochreiter.
Charlotte Pöchhacker, curator of Artimage, will interview ORTLOS architects. Afterwards dance performance by Mona May will be offered.
More info about the book with order option at amazon.

NCC 05 | 10/12/05

ORTLOS architects took a part at NetartCommunityCongress 2005 07. until 09. Dezember 2000 in Graz (Dom im Berg).
"ncc05" is the analogous and virtual platform for artistical and theoretical statements about "Barriers and their breaking - down of cultural implications of the net" in 5 x 8h.
See some impressions here, or check the official ncc website.

ORTLOS @ Artimage | 02/12/05

ORTLOS architects will participate at "7th Graz biennal on media and architecture". In a short lecture the project "The Thing and The Wing" will be presented together with other invited well known architects.
If you look for more info about this festival orginized by Charlotte Pöchhacker, check out this link.

Daylight symposium | 07/11/05

ORTLOS architects participated at the daylight symposium orginized by VELUX, in Budapest, Hungary.
The lecture was titled "Final Imag(in)e" and it was about use of the daylight as a design parameter, as well the conceptual value of the "strategic image". For more info follow this link.

ORTLOS book is out NOW!!! | 22/09/05

After 2 years working together with famous graphic designer David Carson on the ORTLOS book: Architecture of the NetWORKS, it is available now.

The architects of ORTLOS characterize the "end of architecture" in a way that is comparable to American graphic-design legend David Carson's radical description of the "end of the print medium." This unique publication, the result of an unusual creative collaboration between ORTLOS and Carson, presents a dozen projects, dating from 2000 to 2003. Foreword is written by Thom Mayne, Morphosis, the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2005.

The book can be ordered e.g. at Amazon, or directly through the publisher Hatje Cantz.

You want to see how the book looks inside? Ok, click here to see a sneak preview.

A.N.D.I. source code released! | 30/03/05

A.N.D.I. - A New Digital Instrument is an Open Source project for creative networked collaboration in architecture and net.art.
Its code, completely written in Java2, was released in November 2004 and now it is available on the project website www.ortlos.at for download.
This code is released under GPL license. Please fill free to use it and/or join this project!
If you want to see A.N.D.I. in action you can follow this link for AWSP (Active Work Server Pages) www.ortlos.at/AWSP or VirtualOffice www.ortlos.at/VirtualOffice.

Open Source Architecture | 11/11/04

5 DAYS of Open Source Architecture this is the period covered by this mixed event, at which altogether 5 types of artistic presentation overlap and intersect. EXHIBITION __ a self-generating show of permanent production during the event ... 5 LECTURES held by the 5 participants + the hosts ... the installation supporting the collaborative approach __ open platform + open forum with the mur.at community ... WORKSHOP and interaction with the public relating to the defined topic ... CONFERENCE for exchanging ideas and defining terms and definitions, strategies, techniques and aspects of "open source architecture" __ DATE: November 15 – 19, 2004, end of the exhibition December 3, 2004. Location: Forum Stadtpark Graz, info here.

ORTLOS lecture in Graz | 19/10/04

In Graz's Seifenfabrik (ex soup factory) ORTLOS will held the lecture about "A.N.D.I." - Open Source und Architektur, on Friday October the 22nd @ 18:30.
The event will be a part of OS04 (open source event). Follow this link for more info.

ORTLOS lecture in Mainz | 14/10/04

The lecture will be held in the event framework "Zollhafen", organized by the students of FH Mainz (Germany), which invites persons from the fields of architecture, interior design and media design with the focus on interdisciplinary working methods.
ORTLOS architects follow this invitation and on 02.Nov.2004 will give the lecture titled as "Architecture of the Networks".

ORTLOS architectural portfolio | 05/10/04

We have been asked frequently about our architectural projects. Now we put together a PDF A3 portfolio with selected architectural projects and topics related to it.
Please consider that this PDF has 72dpi and it is not suitable for printing.

A.N.D.I. prototype ready !!! | 28/09/04

Great news, we finally finish the first prototype for A.N.D.I. - A New Digital Instrument for creative networked collaboration in architecture and art.
After 3 years of research and 1 year of programming this open source project written completly in java2, can be seen under this addresses: AWSP - Active Work Server Pages and VirtualOffice.
Please try it out and if you would have any problems or suggestions please contact us.

ortlos.at new release | 10/08/04

Combined with the finishing of the A.N.D.I. prototype we are introducing the new ortlos.at pages.
This site consists all informations about this research project. Also public contributions are welcome as well as any other kind of participation.

ORTLOS in finale | 15/05/04

ORTLOS architects was in the final decision for the invited competition for the city center of Hart.
The project complex task included: hotel with 20 rooms, restaurant for 200 places, several doctor praxis, super market, wellness and fitness center, parking decks, and new audience stand for the soccer field.
The artists group reMI (Graz/Amsterdam) contributed with their art work on this project as well. The consulting firm was Ingenos.
You can see more about this project by following this link.

ORTLOS for EXPO in Japan | 05/05/04

ORTLOS architects managed to come in a second final round for the open competition "Austrian pavillion for the World exhibition EXPO" in Japan 2005. We did this project with our partners: Eberhard Schrempf and BSX (Bader&Schmölzer).
You can see more about this project by following this link.

lighThing is beautiful | 18/12/03

The lighThing is designed based on the concept of the architectural project „The Thing and The Wing“. The lighThing is the downscaled model of the real Thing object on the freeway. It is a lamp of total height 201cm and the lighthing sculpture.
You can get more information here.

Press info about ORTLOS | 21/08/03

You are from the press or just interested in ortlos work and ortlos office. You want to find more in a simple comprehensive HTML form. No problem, just follow this link.
You can also download many PDFs there about us and our work. Cheers.

ALL ORTLOS ARCHITECTS PROJECTS© - complete listing
recent project: "City Upgrade "

"High Spirited Networked City" is the first of three project years that will feature a series of urban development/architectural investigations at various levels in 2005 as part of "steirischer herbst 2005". In a laboratory-like setting, the aim is to test and develop concepts for "City Upgrade" focusing on ”the other bank of the Mur in Graz".

Image 1: City Upgrade
Image 2: City Upgrade

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