Andrea Graser AT

https://studio-okular.com
Reisnerstraße | 1030 Wien

Andrea Graser (b. 1976) is an architect specializing in lighting. In 2014, she founded the architecture and lighting design firm Studio Okular (studio-okular.com) in Vienna, Austria. She earned her Ph.D. in technical sciences from the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. From 2001 until 2014 she was a project partner of Wolf D. Prix at Coop Himmelb(l)au, where she led the design and planning process for award-winning international museum projects and cultural buildings. For over 20 years, she has explored the material of light in art and architecture. In her research work she explores the potential of dynamic artificial light in museum architecture. Her book "Ligh Up – the potential of light in museum" was published by Birkhäuser in the serious edition Angewandte in June 2023. At this year’s Architecture Biennale 2023 in Venice Andrea Graser shows in cooperation with artist Friedrich Biedermann and the Künstlerhaus Vienna the artwork "Noesis_#i" as a thinking model of reality at the ECC. In the context of the object-oriented ontology of light, light as a dynamic material assumes the central role in the network of relationships between architecture, space, and human beings.