FIRMS Firm Type Best X Small Firms (2-5 employees)

Jury Winner

 

Lechner & Lechner Architects

1987, Salzburg, Austria
 

The architecture office Lechner & Lechner  has been dealing with a wide range of architectural tasks and issues since 1987. In particular, building in a historical context and the topic of sustainable building in all its facets have been part of the firm's core competencies from the very beginning. The functions of the European city and preventing urban escape by uniting and interweaving areas of life are among the firms's heartfelt concerns. With regard to the materialization of their projects, experience has been gained in many types of construction over the decades.

Thanks to their focus on sustainability, Lechner & Lechner realize many projects in general in wood construction and the inner-city area with its spatial densification in wood hybrid construction. Maximizing the quality of room is always their yardstick and the basis for making decisions about our architectural work. In doing so, they try to meet the diverse demands on architecture based on a well-known quote from Karl Friedrich Schinkel: “It is the duty of architecture to transform what is useful, practical and functional into something beautiful.”

During a collaboration with the Chair of Urban Design at ETH Zurich at the end of the 1990s, the firm met the architect Johannes Schallhammer. Since 2000, they have worked together in an office community in the common location of Salzburg´s Priesthausgasse. In addition to their own projects, the firms collaborate on many projects together.

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