Alexander Daxböck

Alexander Daxböck studied architecture in Vienna, Tokyo and Zurich. Besides his interest on emergent forms of urban planning and urban development, he particularly focuses and researches on the value and importance of architectural drawings, illustrations and stills as communication tool and transmitter of information, time, emotion or atmosphere. Trying to blur and combine certain limits and elements between architecture, graphics, comics and fiction. The result, images equipped with mannerism and characteristics, handling different scales, driven by diverse inspirations, detailed and vague at the same time, almost limitless in a digital environment. Like a playful topography that can be explored, looked at, coded or shaped, always open for speculations, experiments and ideas. Occasionally being more relational or abstract than architectural, spatial or figurative, presented and positioned between a technical draft and an artistic expression and never afraid of relying on the observer for [further] explanation. Apart form working as an architect and illustrator he teaches an urban design studio at the Technical University of Vienna.