Face the Context:
Do More with Less

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Lecture Series
University of Applied Sciences Liechtenstein
Vaduz, 2005-2006

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Correlating the hight of a budget with the quality of the building is a familiar rhetorical trope when architects want to shift the responsibility for their doing on someone else. Had one only had more money, one could have done the most extraordinary things! However this vulgar materialist achitectural ethics is clearly proven wrong by a countless buildings which managed to pulverize gigantic budgets to blatently mediocre architecture. Inversely, there are at least as many buildings which achieve outstanding architectural effects with the most modest financial means. The quality of architecture obviously does not depend on the client’s capital investment, it relies much more on the architect’s ability to exploit a given financial scope as efficiently as possible to the benefit of architecture and its benficiaries. In the sequel of last year’s lecture cycle dubbed „Face the Context“ we therefore proudly present seven architects and one inhabitant’s association who don’t believe that less is more unless you can do more with less.

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25 oct 2005 Jean-Philippe Vassal, Lacaton & Vassal, Paris, F
16 nov 2005 Boris Hrban, Fabrica, Bratislava, SK
05 dec 2005 Momoyo Kaijima, Atelier Bow-Wow, Tokyo, J
17 jan 2006 PLOT, Kopenhagen, DK
14 mar 2006 Gion Caminada, Vrin, CH
04 apr 2006 MedusaGroup, Gliwice, PL
16 may 2006 Klaus Overmeyer, studio urban catalysts, Berlin, D
13 jun 2006 Ute Fragner, Robert Korab, Sargfabrik, Wien, A