Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs@tnEArchitects
“The provocation of the random and the unpredictable is our strategy in approaching the spatial
and programmatic aspects of architecture. We work at discovering the factors leading beyond pure functionality –
it is how we see the essence of architecture.”
Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs (*1967) and Ernst J. Fuchs (* 1963) founded the next ENTERprise Architects
in 2000 in Vienna, Austria. From the beginning tnE have operated in a field that ranges from experimental
installations to architectural practice, treating both approaches as equal and mutually influential.
Projects like the Zirl House / AT (1997), Stadtwind / AT (2000), Blindgänger / AT (2000), Underground Swimming Pool / AT (2001), Audiolounge / AT (2001), Trinkbrunnen / AT (2003), How to Start a City / AT (2003), Lakeside Bath Caldaro / IT (2006), Cloud Tower - Open-air pavilion Grafenegg/ AT (2007), Residential development Auer-Welsbach-Straße / AT (2007), Archaeological Center Mainz / GER, competition 1st prize (2010), Noeklius _ informed sculpture / AT (2014), Fidesser House / AT have been widely published and awarded. The studio was nominated several times for the Mies van der Rohe Award / Further Prizes: Austrian Baupreis, Clients’ Award of the Austrian Architects Association, City of Vienna Award for the Advancement of Architecture, the Lower Austria Award for Cultural Achievements in Architecture. Their projects and installations have been shown among others at Archilab Orléans / FR (2000, 2001, 2003), Latent Utopias, Steirischer Herbst / AT (2002), Bienal de São Paulo / Brazil (2003), Manifesta / IT (2009), Venice Biennale / IT (2004, 2006, 2010, 2016),’Fractional Systems’ at Mackey Garages, Los Angeles (2010), Walking Chair Gallery Vienna / AT (2011), Aedes Gallery Berlin / GER (2004, 2014). Their project UN/COMMON SPACE UN/DEFINED LIVING for "Places for People" was presented in the Austrian pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2016 in Venice / IT.
Marie-Therese Harnoncourt and Ernst J. Fuchs are internationally invited for talks and lectures, and they have held
teaching appointments among others at the University of Applied Arts Vienna / AT, Vienna University of Technology / AT,
University of Innsbruck / AT, University of Art and Design Linz / AT, Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava / SK,
École Spéciale d’Architecture Paris / FR.
The first monograph of the next ENTERprise 'Close to the Bone' was published in 2007
(DD22, Damdi Architecture Publishing Co., South Korea).
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