Wer sind wir?

  

yes ist ein junges in München und Graz basierendes Büro, das 1994 von den beiden Partnern Prof. Ruth Berktold (D) und Marion Wicher (A) gegründet wurde, wo die beiden sich während ihres Masterstudiengangs an der Columbia in New York kennenlernten. Die Forschungs- und Entwurfsarbeit von YES umfasst Architektur, Städtebau, Innenausbau, Möbel, Produkte und Webdesign.

Der multidisziplinäre Charakter des Büros stammt von der Zusammenarbeit mit verschiedensten Künstlern und Designern in einer fliesenden und sich immer neue entwickelnden auf Forschung basierenden kollaborativen Praxis.

Die Niederlassung des Büros in München und Graz ermöglicht es YES in verschiedenen Städten zu lehren und auf diese Weise sowohl ihre Entwurfsforschung als auch ihre Baupraxis weiterzuentwickeln. Eingeladene Wettbewerbe waren der Hauptbahnhof München 2003 und der BMW Automobilsalon 2004 (2. Preis), Projekte die ‘Neue Medien Ausstellung München’.

     
  Who are we?   yes is a young Munich-Graz based practice established in New York in early 1994 by the two principals Ruth Berktold (German) and Marion Wicher (Austrian), where both of them met during their Master Studies at Columbia University. The research and design work of YES includes not only architectural design at scales of building and city but also extends into realms of interior design, furniture, product- and web-design.

The multi-disciplinary nature of this young office focuses on the engagement of diverse groups of artists and designers in a fluid and evolving research-based collaborative practice. The positioning of the practice in two cities – Munich (Germany’) and Graz (Austria) has enabled the collaboration to pursue divergent yet complimentary research through academic appointments while simultaneously producing speculative building projects and theoretical works in their studio. Ruth Berktold holds a tenure-track appointment at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, while Marion Wicher teaches at the Technical University of Graz.

The work of YES continues to develop on several fronts simultaneously. From the publication of theoretical projects and writing, to temporary installations as well as speculative and built architectural and urban-scaled projects, their work examines the possibilities of new computer-technologies’ participatory role in design-processes and their implications on building materials, assemblies, and environments.
More important than the design of the product itself for YES is the anticipatory framework and its corresponding interpretation of ‘self-organizing’ systems. Productive, performative diagramming and thought-models that offer processes rather than ‘styles’ are main focus of YES research towards an architecture comfortable in a position that occupies an in-between space at once - digital and physical.
     
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Ruth Berktold
*28.7.1967
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Marion Wicher
*24.6.1966
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