Germans in Milan

In order to prove things that Daniele told us about his beautiful city we moved to Milan for a couple of days. Lets face reality.


Actually he was right: pretty buildings and people everywhere.


Daniele and his girlfriend Natasha in lovely pose. Is Roman blinded by the light or disgusted by somebody?


Shot of the dome of Milan: after years of reconstruction they have done a pretty good job.


Some italian folks did a street gig spontaneously out of a van. Nightlife feelings.


We were able to catch some first pigments for summer time.


To tourists it is possible to go on top of the dome and have this great view at the city of Milan.


Natasha and Roman feeling comfortable in a small italian bar around the student district.

The MAK

Next to the University for applied Arts Die Angewandte you can find the the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna. Short MAK.


They are displaying there different expositions from ancient clothing to sculptures and art you can find a wide range of objects of different centuries and countries. Also a small architecture section is included: see the Steinhaus by Günther Domenig.


Study model of the Jewish Museum by Studio Daniel Liebeskind.


Designed by Ron Arad the "Rotator" is a shower and bathtub combination. The magic moment is when the water inside the tub is splashing out through the slow rotation movement.


Anish Kappor is "shooting into the corner"! His huge sculptures made out of red vaseline and wax are transformed permanently by shooting, scratching and smearing of moving structures applied.

Christmas Party Part I

First of all I want to wish you all the very best for the next year 2009. Hopefully you survived the days better than me, still struggeling with illness. Go and get some impressions from christmas partying in vienna.


Intern slavery uniforms: Roman and me starting the evening at the office party.


What the ...?! Suddenly this thing appeared in front of the office. A friend organized the jaga-bus crew to come around and join in. Damn cool vehicle.


Stunning white interiors. The whole bus is equipped with a translucent foil surface with coloured light behind. Different light scenarios are possible via touch panel controls.

Panelling Tool

So this is what I'm doing right now in my spare time after work. As a plug-in for Rhino the Panelling Tool provides a huge range of possibilities in populating components on a surface. You can choose how to subdivide the sufaces and also create, save and edit your own components. Basically it's a much more primitive form of GC but with an embeded script support a really great thing. Check it here.

R(e) bo(o)t

The architectural office R&Sie(n) was set up in 1989 and is lead by Francois Roche (1961, France), Stephanie Lavaux (1966, France) and Jean Navarro (1971, France). The office is based in Paris. The organic, oppositional architectural projects in the practice are concerned with the bond between building, context and human relations.


During the lecture of Francois Roche at Die Angewandte at vienna he explained his strategies and visions in explaining and showing several projects.

This is an image of the project olzweg. A competition they did in 2006.


Also R&Sie(n): The hypnosis room exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris 2005.