Robert Konieczny: KWK Promes

buildings + ideas

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2023
Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-86470-890-5 (ISBN)

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This uniquely presented monograph on the work of KWK Promes combines a highly illustrated album with Robert Konieczny's incisive and personalised narrative. Konieczny's practice has often been cited as one of the most exciting architectural studios in the world, and a leader in industry innovation.

Robert Konieczny, founder and principal of KWK Promes, in Poland, specialises in projects renowned for ingenious concepts and unique design. His works examine closely the nature and interpretations of spatial journeys for the viewer or those who inhabit the space, be it for residential works, public buildings, or international cultural festivals and exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennale. The firm’s work especially with kinetic architecture fuses seamless design principles with inventive concepts, namely movable structures that both catch light and create a uniquely experiential environment. A leader in industry innovation, Konieczny and KWK Promes was awarded the World Architecture Festival Award for the best building in 2016.

“Our designs are shaped by logic. Inside these pages we showcase a unique and detailed précis that narrates the story of the concepts behind our buildings.” — Robert Konieczny

“The ideas expressed by Robert Konieczny are quite radical and surprising—his forms are unexpected, and often closed or heavy at first sight. Though the Polish context, in terms of climate, history, and sociology may imply such solutions, KWK has laid out a series of concepts that could readily be applied to other places, surely generating other types of buildings. This is not a style so much as it is an intellectual construct.” — Philip Jodidio

Robert Konieczny is a graduate of Architecture at Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland. In 1996 he received a certificate from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He established KWK Promes architecture studio in 1999. Konieczny is a foreign member of French Académie d'Architecture since 2019. His designs have been nominated twelve times for the European Award of Mies van der Rohe Foundation (for Aatrial House, OUTrial house, Safe House, Autofamily House, Living-Garden House in Katowice, Living-Garden House in Izbica, Przełomy Dialogue Center and Unikato Housing). Konieczny's practice has often been cited as one of the most exciting architectural studios in the world.

Introduction: Philip Jodidio
Robert Konieczny in Conversation with Philip Jodidio
Introduction: Robert Konieczny
Selected Projects
Aatrial House
Safe House
OUTrial house
Autofamily House
standard hOuse
By the Way House
Living-Garden House in Katowice
From the Garden House
Przełomy Dialogue Center
Konieczny’s Ark
Marina in Biały Bór
Quadrant House
Unikato Housing
Gambit Office
Miedzianka Shaft
Art Bunker
Plato Contemporary Art Gallery
Living-Garden House near Kassel
Sunlite Building
Map of Design Paths + Building Index
Image Credits

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2024
Verlagsort	Mulgrave, Victoria
Sprache	englisch
Maße	223 x 300 mm
Gewicht	2142 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-86470-890-5 / 1864708905
ISBN-13	978-1-86470-890-5 / 9781864708905
Zustand	Neuware