ARTIST NAME Bernhard Sommer
TEAM NAME
GROUP Group XIV, May 02 - Sept 02
DISCIPLINE Architecture
WEBSITE www.exikon.at
BIO Born 1969 in Moedling, Austria
Lives in Vienna and Rotterdam

Education

Architecture, Technical University, Vienna

Selected Exhibitions and Works

- Founder and head of the architectural firm EXIKON arc & dev.
- Teaches energy design at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
- Currently visiting professor at the Institute for Experimental Architecture, University of Innsbruck, Austria

2007-2008
- Researcher and project manager at Kas Oosterhuis´ Hyperbody research group at the Delft University of Technology.

2013
- "Smooth Matter," MAK Center's Garage Exchange Vienna - Los Angeles collaborate with Neil M. Denari on an exhibition for the MAK Center LA.

2012
- " Sternzeichen Restaurant," parametric design and file to factory (Architecture)

2011
- " Kaleidoscope City," presented at the Energy City conference, TU Graz, Austria
- "A generic design approach to the digital fabrication of free-form shapes by structurally optimized components," lecture at the New Years Meeting der Design Computing Community, London, UK

2010
- "City on Demand: Increased urban density through continuously variable structures," Bauhaus.SOLAR, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

2009
- " Kern Appartment," Parametric Feeform Building Skin,Vienna, Austria (Architecture)
- "Conference Proceedings CAAD Futures - Prototyping Dynamic Architecture," Bernhard Sommer (Publication)

2008
- "Interieur Spatzenegger," Neu-Purkersdorf, Austria (Architecture)
- "Generating Topologies - Transformability, Real-Time, Real-World," Conference Proceedings Critical Digital, Harvard Graduate School of Design (Publication)
- "White Paper: Focus Architektur - 3D-Architektur - Virtuell und Real," Departure Wirtschaft, Kunst und Kultur Gmbh, Vienna, Austria (Publication)

2007
- "Transformer 5 - Towards a Topological Architecture," Research Project at the Technical University Vienna in cooperation with Hyperbody Research Group, Technical University Delft (Architecture research)
- "Inflatable Technologies - From Dream To Reality," Congress Proceedings Structural Membranes, EXXOMAS Thematic Conference, Barcelona, Spain

2006
- " Bechtold Apartment,” Vienna (Architecture)
- "Enzyklopaedie der Wa(h)ren Werte - Transform," Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna (Group Exhibition)
- Experimentelle Tendenzen in der Architektur 2006, First Price (Award)

2005
- “ Tuider Apartment,” Vienna/A (Architecture)
- “ Falnbigl Apartments,” Vienna (Architecture)

2004
- “ Lindengasse,” Vienna (Architecture)

2003 - 2005
- " Transformer3," Transformable shading Roof at Café Leopold, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria (Installation)

2002
- “ Niederecker House," Berndorf, Austria (Architecture)
- " Transformer3," Part of the Public Art Program of the City of West Hollywood, California (Installation)

Awards

2006
- Price of Experimental Tendencies in Architecture

2002
- MAK Schindler Scholarship

2000
- Arch + Prize 2000

PORTRAIT
Bernhard Sommer portrait
© Bernhard Sommer
FINAL PROJECT
"Desert Cloud: Transformer 3," Installation, 2002
"Desert Cloud: Transformer 3," Installation, 2002 image
© MAK Center / Joshua White

Project Details...
JURY
Vito Acconci
Viktor Misiano
Herbert Muschamp
Peter Noever
Hans-Ulrich Obrist