Andreas Vogler

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Andreas Vogler (Basel, January 15, 1964), is a Swiss Architect and Designer.

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He is a founder of the research and design team Architecture and Vision. After studies in Art History, and French and German Literature, Vogler worked as an interior designer. In 1988 he began course at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule) in Zürich (Switzerland), graduating in 1994 with a thesis project for “A Weather Station on Weissfluhjoch, Arosa”. In 1995 he collaborated with Christoph Ingenhoven (Ingenhoven Architekten) and from 1995 to 1996, with Richard Horden (Richard Horden Associates), later becoming his teaching and research assistant at the Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität Munchen, Germany), until 2002. In 1998 he started his own practice in Munich, and from the same year until 2000, taught alternate semester courses in aerospace design, focusing on habitability issues aboard the International Space Station (ISS), and the study for future habitats on Mars. He was a Guest Professor from 2003 to 2005 at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture (Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole) in Copenhagen (Denmark), and in 2005-2006, he participated in the Concept House research group at the Delft University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Delft, the Netherlands).

In 2002 he began collaborating with Italian architect, Arturo Vittori, with whom he partnered in 2003 to form Architecture and Vision (AV), an international and multidisciplinary team working in architecture and design, engaged in the development of innovative solutions and technology transfer between diverse fields for aerospace and terrestrial applications. Since 2007, Vogler has focused on projects for Architecture and Vision, many of which have received international recognition. In 2006, a prototype of the extreme environment tent, DesertSeal (2004), became part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, after being featured in SAFE: Design Takes on Risk (2005), curated by Paola Antonelli. In the same year, Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry selected Vogler and Vittori as ‘Modern-day Leonardos’ for its Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius exhibition, and they collaborated with Roberto Vittori, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and brother of Arturo, on the BirdHouse Project. In 2007, a model of the inflatable habitat MoonBaseTwo (2007), developed to allow long-term exploration on the Moon, was acquired for the collection of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, while MarsCruiserOne (2007), the design for a pressurized laboratory rover for human Mars exploration, was shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, as part of the exhibition Airs de Paris.

Vogler has spoken at numerous international conferences on space architecture and technology transfer to architecture, and has also organized conferences of significant scientific interest and relevance. In 2008 he and Vittori will team-teach an undergraduate course in Industrial Design, at the First Faculty of Architecture "Ludovico Quaroni," University of Rome La Sapienza (Prima Facoltà di Architettura “Ludovico Quaroni” dell’Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza,” Italy). He is a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects (Bayerische Architektenkammer (ByAK), the Deutscher Werkbund, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

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  • Paola Antonelli (a cura di), Safe: Design Takes on Risk, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2005, p. 64. ISBN 0870705806
  • Claudio Cerasa, Fratelli molto marziani, in Rolling Stones Magazine, Italy, August 2007, p. 26.
  • Valérie Guillaum, architecture + vision. Mars Cruiser One 2002-2006, in Airs de Paris, Diffusion Union-Distribution, Paris 2007, pp. 338-339. ISBN 978-284426325
  • 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.
  • Arturo Vittori, Chicago Museum of Science and Technology. A Gathering of Modern Day Leonardos, in US Italia Weekly, May 2006, 21, p. 4.
  • Arturo Vittori & Andreas Vogler, in Design for Made in Italy from Roma to Lazio, Factory Laboratorio Design, Rome 2007, 224, p. 263.
  • Design estremo. The Desert Seal, in L'Arca, December 2005, 209, pp. 78-81.
  • 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, ISBN 978-1856694957

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