ThinkArchitecture is a London and Vienna based collaborative partnership formed by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer in 1996.

Strongly concerned with the formation and dynamics of contemporary cultures ThinkArchitecture includes a whole array of research work in its architectural practice. This research aims to investigate the interrelationships between the social and the material, the political and the aesthetic, new forms of cultural expression and architectural production in respect to their role within the processes of global spatial transformation.

ThinkArchitecture's multi-disciplinary and cross-methodological approach that embraces art, architecture, new technologies, critical theory and visual cultures is reflected in the development of a series of research clusters >>>

These clusters combine the work on architectural and art projects as well as theoretical explorations disseminated through workshops, lectures and publications.

contested spaces

turns to moments of crisis, conflict and negotiation as defining moments in the articulation of communities and public sphere. It looks at the ways in which territorial boundaries are both being undermined and upheld and locates this paradoxical situation through investigations into a series of different geographic sites affected by global transformations of culture.

cruising

emphasises the importance of subjective, bodily participation in the production of space by operating silently and dismissing clear visual identification. Arguing for a design which builds upon spatial qualities of the unscripted and transitory within cultural experience, cruising is employed as both a transgressive spatial practice and counter-epistemological model.

virtuality

examines how the significance of geographical location is being remodelled by an increasingly complex interplay of virtual/electronic and actual/physical sites of interaction.

visual culture

deals with topical transformations of the ways we construct, know and inhabit our environments in contemporary visual culture. It combines research into the regime of visuality with experimentation pertaining to alternative forms of representation and performance.

relational architecture

re-conceptualises architecture through practices of human interaction. It comprises a diverse set of investigations into the character of newly emerging forms of collectivity and co-habitation and seeks to develop architectural schemes on a variety of different scales. Work on the research clusters above has brought ThinkArchitecture to develop characteristic approaches to design depending on the scale of intervention: While our small scale projects evolve around performative acts as their material complices by inciting immediate contact and engagement, works operating on a larger scale yield landscapes of a more generic character able to accommodate such acts of subjective appropriation through a particular quality of visual vagueness.