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“Look at the softbag - it is reacting to content.
Let us think of facts, thoughts and dreams... instead
of form we better consider networks, complex
relations, evolution and thickness - form is
emerging. I like to consider combination logic. I
like the idea of synergetics - this is softbag.”
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Urban Tattoo
1998/2000
urban strategy
Vienna, Austria
Continuous Landscape 2000
community center / fi re station
Gaimberg, Austria
Dynamic Flow
Softbag House
hotel
Lago Espejo, Argentina
double house
Vienna, Austria
Paola in Movimento
urban strategy and a new town center
Paola, Italy
1998
1995
2004
2007
Guangming New Town Centre
urban strategy and a new town center
Shenzhen, China
A poetic-strategic concept defi ning the
dimensionality of the spatial strucure, a
typology of private, semi-public and public
infrastructure and rule for fl exibility and
self-organisation: the creation of identity
through a programmatic small-scale approach
and appropriation potentials.
A low cost house for two on a steep and narrow site, with
the possibility of expansion in the future. The two occupants,
divided by a folded wall - the primary structure of the
house - are making room to each other in order to reach the
optimal balance between view and the width of space.
Urban Tattoo 1998/2000 Urban Tattoo 1998/2000
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Landscape ands and a d cape ap p 20 200 2200
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Dynamic Flow 1998
Guangming 2007
Dynamic Flow 1998
Paola in Movimento 2004
Softbag House 1995
Softbag House 1995
Guangming 2007
Continuous Landsc

ape 2000
Softbag House 1995
Paola in Movimento 2004
Urban Tattoo 1998/2000
Continuous Landscape 2000
Dynamic Flow 1998
Guangming 2007
Paola in Movimento 2004
CURRENT PROJECTS OFFICE PROFILE
House expansion Lienz 2010
Lienz, Austria
South China University Campus 2010
main auditorium
Shenzhen, China
The Garden of 999 Trees 2010
commercial area,
Nanjing, China
Rainer Pirker, is an architect living and working in Vienna. He was born in Graz and studied architecture at the
Technical University in Innsbruck. After working in the Studio of Hans Hollein (1984-1989), working and living
in Istanbul and several years of teaching he started his own practice as registered architect.
In 1997 he founded rainer pirker architeXture (rpaX), an international active architecture and urban design
offi ce based in Vienna, Austria. rpaX has done projects in Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, USA,
India, Finland, Argentina and China.
Recognized as innovative practice in architecture and urban planning, rpaX has been the subject of national
and international architecture and urbanism awards. In February 2010 Rainer Pirker was awarded the Golden
Bull Prize and the Guangdong province prize for excellent urban planning for the project of Guangming New
Town Centre in Shenzhen, China. He was twice awarded in the Otto Wagner Urban Planning award, 2001 and
2004. In 1998 rpaX was awarded with a prize promoting “Experimental Tendencies in Architecture” in Austria.
Among several international exhibitions in Europe, the United States and in China, where the work of rpaX was
shown, are the 12th International Architecture Biennale in Venice 2010, the Shenzhen Biennale, “Austrian Contemporary
Architecture, Art and Design” in the Shanghai Art Museum, his personal show “architeXtures” in AUT
Innsbruck and the travelling exhibitions such as “Austrian Cultural Institute New York”or “Making Waves” in
Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Beijing, , and others. Work of rpaX has been published worldwide.
Rainer Pirker has been active as teacher and thinker of architecture and urban planning since 1991. After
teaching at the technical University in Vienna for many years he taught several Universities in Austria and
abroad, such as Technical University Innsbruck, Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles,
ESA Paris and others. Currently he is teaching Urban Strategies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is
invited guest critic at numerous universities in Europe, USA and Asia, including Columbia University New York,
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Esarq Barcelona.
Since 2004 rpaX has expanded his activities to China with several projects in Shenzhen, Nanjing, Guangzhou
and Rizhao. The academic activities have also spread to China with Rainer Pirker being a guest professor in
South East University since 2010.
EXHIBITITED
2010 Austrian Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
2007-2008 Shenzhen / Hong Kong Biennale, Shenzhen, China
2007 “rainer pirker architeXtures”, aut, Innsbruck, Austria
2006 “Sculptural Architecture in Austria”
National Art Museum of China, Beijing and Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2003 “Making Waves” in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Nanjing, China
2001 “Austrian Contemporary Architecture, Art and Design”, Shanghai, China
2000 “Den Fuß In Der Tür, Manifeste Des Wohnens”, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
1999 Ars Electronica, Telezone, Linz
1999 “Five Austrian architects at work”, Nicosia, Cyprus
1999 “Zeichenbau”, Vienna
1998 “plot, gezeichnete Architektur aus Österreich”, Berlin
1997 “plot, gezeichnete Architektur”, Vienna
1992-1995 travelling exhibition, Austrian Cultural Institute in New York
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
since 2010 guest professor at South East University, Nanjing, China
2009 visiting professor at ESA, Paris, France
since 2007 University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
1991-2008 Technical University Vienna, Austria
2005 Akademie Yazd, Iran
2004 South East University, Nanjing, China
2001-2003 Technical University Innsbruck , Austria
1996 Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, USA
SELECTED AWARDS
2010 Guangdong Province Award for excellent urban planning and design, Guangdong, China
2010 Golden Bull, Shenzhen, China
2004 Otto Wagner Urban Design Award, Austria
2001 Otto Wagner Urban Design Award, Austria
1998 Award for promoting Experimental Tendencies in Architecture, Austria