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Alexander Brenner Architekten

Profile of Alexander Brenner Architekten, headquartered in Germany. Three projects submitted by Alexander Brenner Architekten have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

: Alexander Brenner – © Alexander Brenner Architekten

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Alexander Brenner

Brief description

There will be few architects in Europe who have addressed the villa as a type as consistently and with such formal awareness as the Stuttgart architect Alexander Brenner. Brenner has run his own practice in his home city of Stuttgart since 1990, and within a single decade created a series of villas responding individually to the urban situation and the owners’ needs; they are incomparable in their formal language and also in their interior coherence.

Brenner’s villas can be seen and experienced as three-dimensional works of art, lucid sculptures to live in, thoroughly modelled down to the last detail. The geometrical sculptural effect is achieved outside by the horizontals and verticals of their architectural structure and bands of windows, used to powerful graphic effect, by the thrusting canopy roofs, the cubically effective white walls pushing into the rooms individually, and by their large expanses of glazed façades. They also stand up energetically to the organically designed gardens and other outdoor spaces. But what is completely unique is the design logic Brenner deploys to make the cubism of the external forms impact on the interior, applying it to the everyday utility objects in the living rooms, kitchen and bathroom. Amazingly, he makes it look completely natural that not only all the cupboards in these houses are adapted to the stereometric order of the spatial continuum’s subtle rhythms, but so are bulky fittings like washbasins, bathtubs, cookers and dishwashers.

So if there has ever been a Stuttgart style in the history of more recent architecture, as is so often asserted, then that style has achieved a new and functionally highly refined liveliness in Brenner’s houses.

-- Dr. Gottfried Knapp / Alexander Brenner - Houses

Published projects

: House Heidehof by Alexander Brenner Architekten The plot, wide where it meets the road and converging to an almost triangular shape at the back, where an impressive plane tree, worthy of protection, grows,...

: House B-Wald by Alexander Brenner Architekten A viewer on the road sees only two anthracite-coloured bodies glinting in the sunlight, with an anthracite-coloured gate in between. Behind this gate is...

: House am Oberen Berg by Alexander Brenner Architekten A generous multi-generation house should be constructed on a hill side property, bordered by vineyards, in an isolated location and with abroad...