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Coope Himmelblau is a multi award-winning cooperative architectural design firm located in Vienna, with offices in Los Angeles and Guadalajara, Mexico. This book looks at the company's most notable buildings.
Since 1968, Coop Himmelblau has been practicing a form of architecture which provocatively breaks away from traditional structures to expose inherent tensions. The principles of deconstructivism can be seen in many of their most famous buildings and projects: the seminal Falkestrasse roof extension in Vienna, the east wing of the museum in Groningen, the JVC New Urban Entertainment Centre in Mexico, the spectacular UFA cinema centre in Dresden and the SEG residential tower in Vienna. Their work has been the subject of international exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, and in 1996 they represented Austria in the Venice Biennale.
"Coop Himmelb(l)au's psychogram technique began as a technique to free architecture from cliches, a renunciation of design methods seen by Prix and Swiczinsky to serve discredited institutions and authorities. By forcing themselves out of their own comfort levels with building, they learned how to amplify the dynamic tensions of a space,"--P. 47.
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