For twenty-five years, Hubert Hermann and François Valentiny have maintained their offices in Vienna and Luxemburg. They are linked by a common attitude, molded over the years in a constant verbal and design-based exchange of ideas. They are separated by their locations: here the metropolis of Vienna, there the small and more rural Luxemburg. Hence their disparate tasks - from toolsheds to prestigious structures, from single-family homes to urban housing developments.
This monograph is organized thematically. Architecturally, their works are carried out on a comparable level, but they differ in terms of their subjective expression. Their architecture offers us an experience that doesn't hew to the parameters of the zeitgeist. Instead, it makes a highly individual contribution to the current architectural discussion. It also works with "codes," processing and utilizing historical, contextual, theoretical, and artistic elements and transforming them into contemporary, user-oriented architecture.