We are a duo working from the conviction that architecture is a social art form. For us, neither art nor architecture is autonomous: every work is produced within cultures of making – systems of labour, skill, access, and transmission that determine how objects and spaces come into being. Our work is therefore relational: shaped as much by material conditions and collaborators as by intention.
Our practice moves across scales and media – furniture, assemblies, wooden objects, found fragments, digital drawings, and video. We treat these not as separate categories but as adjacent registers of one practice, each offering a different proximity to structure, time, and use.
Making is central to our thinking. We approach fabrication as an act of joining, where materials, forces, and decisions meet at the junction. We use joining in a double sense: as sequence (what follows, what comes next) and as repair (to connect, patch, and re-establish continuity after rupture). This interplay of nextness and mending structures how we work. The junction is never merely technical; it is where choices become visible. Seams, fastenings, and details register technique and care, disclosing the social reality of production.
Drawing functions as both tool and work. We treat drawings as documents of production rather than purely representational images: they record testing, revision, and the negotiation between intention and limitation. Digital and analogue series operate as sequences of decisions and may remain present as works alongside built objects.
We regard materials as agents rather than neutral media. Each carries its own logic – grain, density, elasticity, weathering – and its own capacity to speak. Our practice responds to climate change not as an external theme but as a condition that reorganizes production – from architectural scale down to the seam of a wooden object.
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1160 Vienna, Austria
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https://www.vimeo.com/ehrmanngruber/ Atelier ehrmann:gruber is directed by Christina Ehrmann and Christopher Gruber.
Website designed and programmed by David Gallo.
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