Architectural Practice
TEST (ES) + Max Otto Ziztelsberger (DE)
18:45
Architectural Practice is a lecture series that invites exemplary practices from across the globe to share their ongoing work. The series is curated by Cristian Ștefănescu (Assistant Professor, BAS & founder of a-works | architecture, art and design) and co-hosted by the Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) and Bergen Society of Architects (BAF).
TEST (ES)
TEST is an architectural firm founded in 2022 by Albert Guerra, Adrián Jurado and Julia Tarnawski.
TEST is a team of architects based in Barcelona.
TEST practices the design and production of architectural prototypes.
TEST means Truly Experimental Somehow Traditional, but it could also mean anything else.
Max Otto Ziztelsberger (DE)
We are an anti-professional architectural practice. We like the indeterminate, the accidental, non-places, shabby corners, suburban spaces. Thus, quite incidentally, we discover the beauty of the banal. We are interested in the unfinished, the contradictory, the deconstructive, in transitional states, fragments and torsos. By deconstruction, we do not mean an act of wanton vandalism, but rather a productive form of destruction. The dilettantish act of tinkering (in German “murxen”) is thereby elevated to the status of a professional method. Implicit in this – quite incidentally – is an allusion to the title of the legendary German cult play by Christoph Marthaler, staged within a set design by Anna Viebrock. As she once remarked: “I find it incredibly interesting to watch things decay.”
Jonas Maczioschek, Jakob Hügues, Max Zitzelsberger
Max Otto Zitzelsberger is a German architect with his own practice based in Bavaria, as well as a Junior Professor of Tectonics in Timber Construction at the University Kaiserslautern-Landau RPTU.
Image Credits
Gregori Civera / Sebastian Schels