Herbert Eichholzer Awards 2019

These awards, named after the Graz architect Herbert Eichholzer (1903 – 1943), are awarded to talented architecture students every two years. The awards are announced by the Faculty of Architecture. The Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Graz then proposes the prizes in recognition of the importance of Herbert Eicholzer, and the final awarding decision is made by the city senate.

The awards are intended both to symbolize the connection between the city of Graz and Graz University of Technology with Herbert Eichholzer and to support the continuation of conscientious interaction with the trends of the time, as exemplified by the architect. The awards also stand as a permanent reminder of Eichholzer’s architectural work.

TREIBHAUS

Herbert Eicholzer repeatedly tried to “change the coordination of the possible” by way of political resistance and architectural visions.¹His restless spirit did not stop even with his own projects: shortly after its completion in 1933, Herbert Eicholzer redesigned the Opera Garage - designed by himself and Rudolf Nowotny - with an architectural project that was, by Graz standards, utopian. This project was not realized. The Opera Garage can still be found almost unaltered today in the courtyard of a Wilhelminian block in the Schögelgasse, between Kaiser-Josef-Platz and Dietrichsteinplatz. This building thus offered the starting point for the task of this year’s Herbert Eicholzer Architecture Award.

The topic of the student competition was the design of a “Treibhaus”, or greenhouse: a community building for the residents of the city of Graz that, in reference to the nearby Kaiser-Josef-Markt, is dedicated to the theme of “food.” The existing hall should have been transformed into a glass greenhouse and the residential building on the street replaced by a new building for public community use.

¹ Slavoj Žižek on utopias from Die politische Suspension des Ethischen, Frankfurt am Main 2005.

Winners

1st Prize
Riham El Moazen & Anna Maria Jäger: "Treibhaus. Ein Garten für die Stadt"

2nd Prize
Michael Hafner & Katharina Hohenwarter: "Treibhaus"

3rd Prize
Markus Pöll & Michael Karnutsch: "Treibhaus"

Dates

Colloquium
May 15, 2019 at 7pm HSII, Rechbauerstraße 12/KG, TU Graz

Registration
until July 5, 2019 at 12pm by email to gam.labnoSpam@tugraz.at

Submission
by August 2, 2019 at 12pm in the office of the Institute of Design and Building Typology, Lessingstraße 25/IV, TU Graz

Award Ceremony
November 20, 2019 at 7pm in HDA | Mariahilferstraße 2 | 8020 Graz
Exhibition in HDA: November 21 - November 29, 2019, Tuesday-Sunday, 10am-6pm

supported by

Organisation and Realisation

IGL | Institute of Design and Building Typology
DI Tobias Gruber
Lessingstrasse 25/IV
8010 Graz
Tel: +43 (316) 873 - 6796

GAM.Lab
Maike Gold
Rechbauerstraße 12
8010 Graz
Tel: +43 (316) 873 - 4187

sponsored by the Herbert Eichholzer - Architecture Award from the City of Graz