In this book, Matthie Wellner and Buero Kofink Schels (architects Simon Jüttner and Sebastian Kofin) unfold the design process of T.I.A. House 1+2, a project they developed and built in the city of Almeria on the southern Spanish coast.
Using a series of unpublished documents, sketches, scale models and snapshots, they examined the critical value of real-time improvisation within the profession of architecture. Three additional contributions bring new insights on practice-based research and image theory. The publication is the result of a collaboration between KU Leuven, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (ULB) and the University of Liège within the research group "Architecture in Practice", which investigates the ways in which architectural practice and academic research can enrich each other.
The In Practice series explores the multiple ways in which architects can engage their professional architecture practice in academic research and reciprocally. In Practice seeks to open a space for architecture practices in research through the development of methodologies, conferences, publications and studios.
Buero Kofink Schels is a Munich-based architecture practice established by Simon Jüttner and Sebastian Kofink in 2014.
Working for private clients just as well as public institutions, their projects engage with all scales of architecture – from furniture,
exhibitions and small conversions to housing and urbanism. Due to the given financial and logistical circumstances of the projects,
their early work relied heavily on their own initiative and manual labour. This experience has led Buero Kofink Schels
to develop an approach to architecture, that trusts methods more than habit and style, building on a fascination for
straight forward craftsmanship, just as much as a scepticism towards the mere visible form. Having realised projects
in Germany, Switzerland, France and Spain, their work has found national and international recognition.
Edited by Harold Fallon, Benoît Vandenbulcke, Benoît Burquel.
Texts by Sebastian Kofink, Simon Jüttner, Matthieu Wellner, Tadeja Zupancic, Maud Hagelstein, Muck Petzet, Harold Fallon, Benoît Burquel, Benoît Vandenbulcke.
