• ABOUT WORK

Expanded Design is an office for architecture, urbanism and research in Vienna. The name programmatically stands for an architectural practice that is not satisfied with the design of beautiful spaces, but rather develops research-based questions that open up spaces of possibility for our living together. The focus of our work is on new forms of labour and living.

With research, analysis and experimentation, we make latent questions of a task visible, challenge existing ideas and generate new ones. In the design process, we draw on theoretical and historical knowledge, analyse the context, reveal the implicit and explicit knowledge of organisations and develop solutions in an artistically explorative manner that productively meet the demands of contemporary architecture.

In doing so, we understand architecture as part of social discourses in which it is necessary to intervene and thus change reality for the better for all of us. Thus, Andreas Rumpfhuber's research, texts, books and lectures are part of a specific architectural practice that intervenes in social discourses and at the same time communicates and conveys knowledge.