Andreas Vogler (born January 15, 1964) is a

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and

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. He is founder and director of the architecture and design firm, Andreas Vogler Studio.

Early life

Andreas Vogler was raised in Basel, Switzerland. After several semesters of studies in Art History and Literature, Vogler worked as an interior designer with Alinea AG in Basel. In 1988–1994, he studied architecture at the

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(Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule) in Zurich spending one exchange semester at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence ( RISD) in the United States and graduated with a diploma project for an energy-independent, pre-fabricated Weather Station on the Weissfluhjoch/Arosa.

Career

In 1995, he worked for

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in Düsseldorf, and from 1995 to 1996 for Richard Horden Associates, now known as Horden Cherry Lee Architects, in London. Later, he became teaching and research assistant at the institute of Professor Richard Horden at the

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; ) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Established in 1868 by King Ludwig II ...

until 2002. There he was teaching microarchitecture and initiated and leading several design studios for

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, focusing on habitability on board the

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, and on studies for future habitats on

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together with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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. The students involved were able to test their prototypes in parabolic test flights at

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. During the time at the

, Vogler published several papers about space architecture and submitted several prize-winning architectural competition entries. In 2003–2005, he worked as guest professor at

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, School of Architecture in Copenhagen conducting research on prefabricated housing. In 2004, he taught at

The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public university, public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as t ...

. In 2005- 2006, he was part of the Concept House research group at the

Delft University of Technology The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; ) is the oldest and largest Dutch public university, public Institute of technology, technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. It specializes in engineering, technology, computing, design, a ...

. Vogler has spoken at numerous international conferences on the topics of

and

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to architecture and

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in architecture. He organized international conference sessions and led workshops on a variety of related themes. In 2008, he and Vittori taught an undergraduate course in Industrial Design at the

University of Rome La Sapienza The Sapienza University of Rome (), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is ...

and the University Iuav of Venice. He is a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects (ByAK- Bayerische Architektenkammer), the

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, and the

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Architecture and Vision

In 2002, Vogler started to collaborate with the Italian architect, Arturo Vittori, with whom he founded in 2003 Architecture and Vision, an international and multidisciplinary studio working in

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and

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. Both engaged in the development of innovative solutions and

between diverse fields for

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and terrestrial applications. In 2006, a prototype of the extreme environment tent, ''DesertSeal'' (2004), became part of the permanent collection of

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in New York, after being featured in ''SAFE: Design Takes on Risk'' (2005), curated by

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. In the same year, the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago selected Vogler and Vittori as "Modern-day Leonardo's" for its ''

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested o ...

: Man, Inventor, Genius'' exhibition. In 2007, a model of the inflatable habitat ''MoonBaseTwo'' (2007), developed to allow long-term exploration on the

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, was acquired for the collection of the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago in Chicago while ''MarsCruiserOne'' (2007), the design for a pressurized laboratory rover for human Mars exploration, was shown at the

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in Paris, as part of the exhibition "Airs de Paris" (2007). In 2011, the sculpture ''AtlasCoelestisZeroG'' was inaugurated on board of the

Andreas Vogler Studio

In January 2014, Vogler formed the Andreas Vogler Studio, an international and multidisciplinary firm working in architecture, transportation, and design, located in Munich, Germany. Andreas Vogler Studio participated in the GB Railway's "Tomorrow's Train Design Today" transportation competition, and was named a finalist on April 8, 2015. AEROLINER 3000 follows the consequent application of lightweight thinking into the train world. The development of a combination of many singular elements concerning aerodynamics, locomotion, structure, interactive control systems and even passenger psychology will be orchestrated under the umbrella of a modern design and engineering culture informed by consequent lightweight thinking. The design received several design awards.

Projects

2018 * Design Thinking Workshop for Train Seats 2017 * Designs for Cleaning Devices * Private Apartment in Berlin 2016 * Aeroliner3000 Demonstrator phase. * Swiss Residence Munich * Interiors for Swiss Club Munich 2015 * Aeroliner3000 Feasibility Study * Swiss-A-Loo * EyeInTheSky – Electronic Sculpture for ArsTechnica 2014 * "Aeroliner3000", finalist Tomorrow's Train Design Today, 2014–2016 (ongoing project), UK * "SwissConsulate", Swiss Consulate,

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, Germany 2013 * ''OR of the Future'',

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, United States 2012 * ''WarkaWater'',

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, Italy 2011 * '' LaFenice'',

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, Italy * ''AtlasCoelestisZeroG'',

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, France 2009 * ''AtlasCoelestis'', Sullivan Galleries,

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* ''MercuryHouseOne'',

, Italy * ''FioredelCielo'', Macchina di Santa Rosa,

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, Italy 2007 * ''BirdHouse''
Bird House Foundation

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, Japan 2006 * ''DesertSeal'', permanent collection, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA),

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Selected exhibitions

2015 * EyeInTheSky, ArsTechnica2015, Unterhaching, Germany, May 15–17, 2015 2013 * From Pyramids to Spacecraft, traveling exhibition * Children Museum Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt, February 21 – April 25, 2013 * Parliament Bucharest, ROCAD, Bucharest, Romania, May 15–19, 2013 * Futuro Textiles, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, France, February 6 – September 30 2012 * From Pyramids to Spacecraft, traveling exhibition * Italian Cultural Institute, Hamburg, Germany, March 28 – April 4, 2012 * Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA, April 20 – May 11, 2012 * Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 11–25, 2012 * American University, Cairo, Egypt, November 19–26, 2012 * The New Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt, November 29 – January 15, 2013 * Born out of Necessity, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, March 2, 2012 – January 28, 2013 * AtlasCoelestisZero, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, San Francisco, USA, April 17 – May 1, 2012 * WarkaWater, Palazzo Bembo, 13th Int. Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy, August 29 – November 25, 2012 2011 * From Pyramids to Spacecraft, traveling exhibition, Beihang Art Gallery, Beijing, China, March 21–31, 2011 * Shanghai Science and Technology Festival, Pudong Expo, Shanghai, China, May 13–22, 2011 * Living – Frontiers of Architecture III-IV, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, June 1 – October 2, 2011 2010 * From Pyramids to Spacecraft, traveling exhibition The Goldstein Museum of Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, March 14 – May 2, 2010 * Italian Cultural Institute Tokyo, Japan, June 21 – July 3, 2010 * Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland, Ohio, US, October 15 – January 13, 2011 * Deutscher Pavillon, Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy, August 25 – November 21, 2010 2009 * From Pyramids to Spacecraft, traveling exhibition: Italian Cultural Institute, Chicago, Illinois, United States, March 13 – April 22, * Swissnex, San Francisco, California, United States, April 30 – May 20 * Seoul Design Olympiad 2009, Seoul, Korea, October 9–29 * MercuryHouseOne, 53rd Art Biennale Venice San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy, September 2 – October 20, * FioredelCielo, Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo, Italy, September 5 – September 7, * ACADIA, School of the Art Institute Chicago, US, September 25 – January 9, 2010 2008 * Fifteen Roman Architects, New Challenges for the City of Tomorrow, come se Gallery, Rome, Italy, March 14–30 * Le Città del Futuro (Cities of Tomorrow), Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy, March 1, 2007 * 2057, l’espace des 50 prochaines années, Cité de l’Espace, Toulouse, France, November 27 – February 4, 2008 * Istanbul Design Week 2007, Istanbul, Turkey, September 4–10 * Air de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, April 25 – August 15 2006 * FuturoTextiles, Tri Postal, Lille, France, November 14 – January 14, 2007 * Abenteuer Raumfahrt, Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit, Mannheim, Germany, September 28 – April 9, 2007 * Leonardo: Man, Inventor, Genius, Modern-day Leonardos, The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, USA, June 14 – Sept 4 2005 * SAFE: Design Takes on Risk, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States, November 16 – January 2, 2006

References

Bibliography

* Paola Antonelli (ed.), ''Safe: Design Takes on Risk'', The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2005, p. 64. * Valérie Guillaume, ''architecture + vision. Mars Cruiser One 2002–2006'', in ''Airs de Paris'', Diffusion Union-Distribution, Paris 2007, pp. 338–339. * Namita Goel, ''The Beauty of the Extreme'', ''Indian Architect & Builder'', March 2006, pp. 82–83. * Arturo Vittori, ''Architecture and Vision'', in ''L'Arca'', October 2004, 196, pp. 26–38. * ''Un veicolo per Marte. Mars Cruiser One'', in ''L'Arca'', April 2007, 224, p. 91. * Ruth Slavid, ''Micro: Very Small Buildings'', Laurence King Publishing, London, pp. 102–106, * Wüstenzelt ''Desert Seal'' / ''Desert Seal'' Tent, in ''Detail'', 2008, 6, pp. 612–614 * Maurizio Vitta, ''Le belle arti sono industriale'', in L'Arca, 2012, No106, pp. 22–29 * ''Arena di Verona'', in ''L'Arca'', 2017, 138 p. 86.

External links

Andreas Vogler Studio

Architecture and Vision

''Safe: Design Takes on Risk,'' Museum of Modern Art, New York

* [https://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-13678/#/gallery/19512 ''Aeroliner3000 – train concept by DLR and Andreas Vogler Studio impresses in the 'Tomorrow's Train Design Today' competition'' DLR, Stuttgart]
''Aerospace-inspired wonder could be the UK’s first double-decker high-speed train'' by Lucy Wang, Inhabitat
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