Since its establishment in 1996, Vienna-based firm driendl*architects have pursued their search for prototype solutions in furniture and building design, infrastructure, and urban planning. The notion that we are constantly situated in a built environment, or in any case influencing it in some way or another, is guiding all their projects and is reflected in this new book. Ritual / Original reviews driendl*architects' work in a striking literary-visual manner, analysing in theory and exemplified by selected designs the circumstances of their approach: How environment and users affect buildings, cities, infrastructures, and systems; the effect of the inevitable discrepancy between vision and reality; and architects' capacity to observe and react to social structures and phenomena. AUTHOR: Georg Driendl graduated from Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts in 1983. He pursued various research projects, worked in experimental film and ran driendl*steixner architects together with Gerhard Steixner between 1984 and 1996, before establishing his own firm in Vienna in 1996. 243 colour, 62 b/w illustrations
