Dietmar feichtinger architectes 1993-2011

The photos depicting and describing Dietmar Feichtinger's architecture distract our attention from their subject. If they serve to grasp the most apparent qualities - restraint of stroke, daring simplicity of forms, discretion of means - they mask the essential which stems from the situation to which it belongs and reacts as much as it models it.

Thus, it appears as a solution to an equation with multiple unknowns, found by integration rather than by addition? If it a footbridge, is it the progress that has defined it and the resulting pleasure of taking it that has drawn it and determined it: it is established accuracy, its balance, its outline, its details, its mastership.

This also applies to a school building, to a company's headquarters or to any other program, as complex as it may be.

Geometry, engineering, materials and implementation are dictated by a state which architecture reveals - for the benefit and comfort of those who use it, as well as of those who