BIO

Andreas Rumpfhuber is an architect/researcher/theoretician based in Vienna, Austria. His practice concerns interiors and its social, programmatic, cultural, political and symbolic organization.

Andreas holds a PhD from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schoool of Architecture in Copenhagen, where he as been PhD stipendiate at the Danish Center for Design Research from 2005-2008; he is associated with the researchers and artists collective roundtable.kein.org at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College in London.  
Andreas has been lecturing and teaching at TU Vienna, TU Graz, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Goldsmiths College, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen; he curated a.o. Schindler Lecture series (2004-2007) at the Austrian Society of Architecture, the international PhD-Conference on “Politics of Designing” at The Danish Doctoral Schools of Architecture & Design. He is (un)regularly writing for the Vienna Street-Newspaper Augustin, as well as for various international magazines and journals: a.o.: Springerin, Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, dérive, Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung, Mudot, Magazine for Urban Documentation-Opinion-Theory, UmBau, Arkitekten.

LINKS

• EXPANDED DESIGN – Plattform for Expanded Design
• NULLUNDEINS.AT – Collaboration with Martin Hummer

CURRENT RESEARCH_PROJECTS

• SCIBE - Scarity and Creativity in the Built Enironment
  The aim of the SCIBE proposal is to explore the relationship between scarcity and creativity in the context of the built environment by investigating how conditions of scarcity might affect the creativity of the different actors involved in the production of architecture and urban design, and how a design-led innovation of the process could improve the built environment in the future. Funded by HERA
  
  
• AOK - Architecture of Cybernetics of Organization
  The research project “Architecture of Cybernetics of Organization” (ACO) proposes the first comprehensive and systematic documentation of the spatial practice of German management consultants Wolfgang and Eberhard Schnelle and its trans-disciplinary team from the late 1950s until mid 1970s. It explores the very unique non-architects design-practice (1) by registering its specific design-method “cybernetics of organization”, (2) by addressing its engagement with the cybernetic discourse in running a publishing house and (3) by analysing its invention – the “Bürolandschaften” [office-landscapes]. Funded by the Austrian Science Fund
  

RECENT WRITINGS

• Les Paletuviers#16: Guglmugl, in: Bauwelt 45.09, November 2009

• The Coming Insurrection, in: Springerin 10/10: Globalismus, S 45-46, together with Gudrun Ankele.

• Nachbarschaften einrichten, zum Indischen Stadtviertel- und Medienprojekt Cybermohalla,
  in: Springerin 03/09: Escape Routes, S 6-7, together with Gudrun Ankele.
• Arbeit Leben, dérive, Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung, Nr. 34, Wien, Jänner 2009. Concept and editorial for the dérive issue.
  
• Über-Guru-Space, ein fragmentarisches Arbeitsplatzportrait von Tom Peters, in: Gabu Heindl: Arbeit Zeit Raum, Turia und Kant, Wien, Herbst 2008, S. 84–99nt