Valentiny hvp Architects

Since completing their studies in 1980 Hermann & Valentiny have had an office both in Luxembourg and Vienna. The period during which their teacher Wilhelm Holzbauer attributed to this pair a formal vocabulary that was marked by a rich but also eloquent receptiveness to the spirit of the times is long since past.1 Both have radically distanced themselves from their postmodern beginnings that catapulted them into the limelight at a very young age, and have developed further. In 1995 Amber Sayah attributed to them a path of development from sculpturally modelled building volumes to a structural dissection, from a formerly closed architecture to an open one.2 To put it more simply: after their rapid start they travelled a long path to arrive at their current understanding of architecture. A lengthy phase of reflection, in which we learnt to reflect and to work out our fundamental principles (HH), put an end to quick reactions to the zeitgeist. They acquired technical competence and dev...