By studying works of modern Viennese architects, historically conditioned forms from the seventeenth
century up until today can be found in the act of sitting, by wandering along staircases, and through the event of opening
a door consciously. Comfort is an element occuring throughout the house and depending
on wider cultural landscapes. Its
involvement attunes to the complexities of life and crystallises as the material that is formed by architecture. Comfort is
not prior to design, it is created through it.
About the AuthorFabian Tobias Reiner,
born 1994, is an Austrian architect and architectural theorist educated at ETH Zurich, USI Mendrisio, as well as the AA London.
His main body of work revolves around the spatial manifestations of phenomena and notions such as the palimpsest, the quarry,
comfort, and romance.
“For some it may seem dim and unilluminated to take the ‘mere’ comfort of the user as
a constituent of architecture. In fact, anyone who is not prepared for that must be accused of an inferior definition of architecture.
For, if its intellectual content only existed beyond commonplace purposes, architecture after all would be an ‘applied,’ contaminated
art, since commonplace purposes can only rarely be by-passed.” (Hermann Czech, 2007)
Fabian Tobias
ReinerArchitectural Comfort
with an Afterword by Bettina Köhler
and an Epilogue by Hermann Czech
Published 11 / 2021
1st edition
Softcover with flaps
168 pages • 12.8 x 20.8 cm
EUR 28.–
| CHF 34.–
ISBN 978-3-99018-599-5
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