is an architect, lecturer and teacher in Austria and abroad. She graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and founded the next ENTERprise Architects together with Ernst J. Fuchs in 2000. The office combines a broad spectrum of competences ranging from concrete building projects, experimental installations, exhibition designs and scenographies to urban planning concepts. Based on the performative potential of architecture, the interplay of space, atmosphere, context and (users), both the programmatic and spatial boundaries of their buildings and concepts are deliberately designed to be permeable. Exemplary projects such as the Wolkenturm in Grafenegg (AT), the Seebad in Kaltern (IT), the HAWI – Experimentelles Wohnen auf Zeit (AT) project and the Audiolounge and Noeklius – informed sculpture installations have been published and exhibited internationally.
Her projects have been honoured and nominated several times for the Mies van der Rohe Award, including the recently completed Museum of the Heidi Horten Collection (AT). Most recently, you received the City of Vienna Prize, the Culture Prize of the Province of Lower Austria and the Hans Hollein Art Prize for Architecture for your work.
Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs was appointed Professor of Design and Building Theory at the University of Kassel (DE) in 2018. She is currently a member of the Art Advisory Board of the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft BIG, a board member of the Architekturstiftung Österreich and a member of the Transdisciplinary Research Centre for Exhibition Studies TRACES at the University of Kassel.
