until 15.02.2026
The exhibition The Penchant for Geometry uses models, spatial objects, drawings, photographs and a specially created floor plan atlas to explore the fascinating, timeless core of architecture – the interplay of form, body and space. Vienna-based architect Martin Feiersinger’s exploratory examination of geometry moves playfully between historical references, theory and current practice. He is fascinated by experiments with space beyond the powerful typologies of churches and government palaces. Starting from a broad interest in private spaces and ‘artists’ houses’ (i.e. houses that architects have created for themselves), he has been investigating for many years the geometric experiments of Sebastiano Serlio and Vincenzo Scamozzi, from Fischer von Erlach to Lois Welzenbacher, from John Hejduk and Richard Buckminster Fuller to Anne Tyng’s ‘Inhabiting Geometry’ and the playfully intertwined residential architectures of Parisian architect Renée Gailhoustet. Curated by Martin Feiersinger and Gabriele Kaiser, the exhibition conveys the fascinating cosmos of geometry in four thematic strands and with examples from the Renaissance to the present day.
Geometric solids’ (models of Platonic solids; solid and hollow regular solids)
Research on architectural space’ (from the studiolo to the ‘Dome Home’ to the Hexagon House to the megastructure)
‘Floor plan atlas’ (chronological examples of dwellings from the Renaissance to the present day)
‘Follies’ (architectural features)
The penchant for geometry – experiments in living from the last 500 years
until 15.02.2026
kunsthaus muerz
Wiener Straße 35
8680 Mürzzuschlag
https://www.kunsthausmuerz.at
