Halfforms Halfway
Material Agency in Spatial Formations 2023-2027
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Beschreibung
Halfforms – Halfways is a publication documenting the architectural research project Halfforms developed between 2023 and 2025, marking the midpoint of the funded research period. The book brings together the project’s main architectural works, material studies, experimental methods, and theoretical concepts, alongside related teaching formats and pedagogical experiments. Rather than presenting finalized results, the publication reflects the research as an ongoing process, tracing how questions of material agency, design, and construction have evolved through practice-based investigation. By assembling projects, protocols, and reflections across different scales and contexts, Halfforms – Halfways offers an interim account of the research and opens a perspective on its future development.
Autor*in
Karolin Schmidbaur
Karolin Schmidbaur is Professor at the Department of Experimental Architecture, Building Design
and Construction, at the University of Innsbruck since 2017 and Partner and Head of Research at
Coop Himmelb(l)au, Vienna. She holds a degree in architecture from the Technical University of
Munich. Since 1992 she has been practicing internationally with Coop Himmelb(l)au in Austria, the
USA and México and has been active at research and teaching at international architecture schools. In
practice, she has held key roles in many significant, experimental, realized projects with Coop
Himmelb(l)au, among them the Groningen Museum East Pavilion, Netherlands (1994), the Central
Los Angeles Area High School #9 for visual and performing arts in downtown Los Angeles, USA
(2008), the Paneum near Linz, Austria (2017), and many others. Her work has been published and has
received numerous awards. Next to practicing and teaching her interest lies in design methodology
and its implications for evolving building tectonics.
Themen in »Halfforms Halfway«
Architectural Research Artistic Research Vulcanized Fiber Material Agency Material Research