"To us, design means the articulation of people's desires and fears, drawing its strength from the collective subconscious of mankind. In this sense, design is a cultural service to society. Design is a poetic discipline that is indispensable for the definition of man in the Universe. Concepts such as ritual, culture and poetry are at the centre of our work."

Harald Grundl
www.eoos.com

Martin Bergmann (*1963 Lienz), Gernot Bohmann (*1968 Krieglach)and Harald Gru¨ndl (*1967 Vienna) studied design together at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1988 to 1994. In 1990 started their first collaboration and 1995 founded EOOS. EOOS live in Vienna and work in the fields of furniture/product design and flagship store/brand zone design. EOOS is one of the four winged horses of Aurora in Greek mythology. The name stands for our programmatic approach to design. We create ideas and products for a world in which ancient rituals and instincts contrast with new technologies and a dramatically transformed environment.

Adidas shops' world-wide shop concept design: EOOS	Furniture for Armani flagship shops' perfumes and cosmetics products design: EOOS, B&B Italia

"Contemporary architecture in Austria is developing in the controversial area of nature, the countryside and the great historical heritage of this small country. The latter call for contradiction and new interpretations. These, in turn, are provoking singular and playful spatial creations that are bringing nature and history together as new experiential worlds."

Dietmar Steiner
www.azw.at

Dietmar Steiner, *1951, studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He works as an architecture historian, theoretician and critic. He teached at the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. He has published widely in international magazines. He has lectured about theoretical aspects of City and Architecture at many European, North and South American institutions. He did cultural research, publications and exhibitions. Since 1993, Dietmar Steiner is Director of the "Architekturzentrum Wien".

Architekturzentrum Wien	Architekturzentrum Wien

"We, mankind, had endowed places, which have a speci topography or a strange character, with a special meaning. For example, a pointed peak, a long cascade, a profound fountain, a beautiful shape of hill, a huge tree, or a cave of labyrinth. Where our ancestor found a model of the world they lived in. That was an action of building a microcosm, or of enveloping the universe. Housing the world and representing the cosmos."

Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama

Born in Osaka, Japan in 1954, Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama received both undergraduate and graduate degree in architecture from Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo respectively. In 1979 he established the firm AMORPHE Takeyama &Associates whose works range in scale from residence to urban design. From 2004 to 2005, he is selected as one of the exhibitors in "New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific 2004-2005". He is currently an Associate Professor at Kyoto University.

kazafune design: Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama＋AMORPHE Photo：K Torimura(Nacasa & Partners)	refraction design: Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama＋AMORPHE Photo：Yoshio Shiratori	rikuryo design: Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama＋AMORPHE Photo：Yoshio Shiratori

"An approach to develop a replicable design for "Factor 10" buildings based upon the use of renewable resources will be presented. Innovative design and construction elements result in a drastic reduction of energy and resource consumption compared to conventional building technologies."

Robert Wimmer
www.grat.at

Dr.Robert Wimmer is chairman of the independent research association GrAT (Center for appropriate Technology)since 1996. The association is based at the Vienna University of Technology. The leading idea of this research group is to transform the ethical challenge of sustainable development into operational steps, and to initiate und realize examples of sustainable technology use. Robert Wimmer coordinates national and international research and demonstration projects. On top of these activities he provides consultancy for companies and authorities and lectures on several Universities.

S-house, 2005 design: Center for Appropriate Technology, Vienna University for Technology

"Man is a part of nature and its wisdom. This can be applied to architecture, where, after the destruction − a site is prepared− and something new emerges. This transformation from the destructive and constructive is a daily feature in nature, in architecture it is a question of wisdom of the people handling the subject, the scrupulousness of the thought and plan and the respect for the ambiance found, as to whether the constructive predominates. Lastly, the somewhat overused term lasting is closely related with the architectural quality, buildings should not only be economically and functionally resistant but should also most of all be socially and esthetically tenable. As one would like to preserve for the future only something that one likes."

Irmfried Windbichler
www.windbichler-arch.com

*1947, Kitzbu¨hel Degree at the Technical University in Graz. Own practice since 1982. President of "House of Architecture Graz", 2004 - 2005.

casa piccola, graz　1998 design: Irmfried Windbichler	central operation theatre; universitaetsklinikum graz, 1999 design: Irmfried Windbichle
xs-architecture, tram stop design: Irmfried Windbichler

"The task of building a community centre for an institution that is dedicated to a new way of working the land, namely permaculture, was seen as a challenge for a group of architecture students at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (studio Prof. Wolf D.Prix). Bamboo, a material, that would be recognized by the local population was used and at the same time served an experiment in generating a complex roof structure."

Reiner Zettl

Art Historian, Prof. Teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Academy of Fine Art Vienna. Cocurator of Design Now:Austria that travelled around the world and was shown in Japan at the National Museum of Modern Art,Kyoto ; the International Design Center,Nagoya ; and the Hara Museum,Tokyo.