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Duks Koschitz

Biography

1971
born in Frankfurt / D (citizenship A/USA)
1990
international summeracademy Salzburg / A, main course: painting-class Ben Willikens
1991-1998
studies architecture, TU Wien
1997–98
Coop Himmelb(l)au, Vienna, (Designer)
1999-2000
Office da, Nader Tehrani & Monica Ponce de Leon, Boston / USA, (Installation-architecture)
2000–2007
Neil M. Denari Architects, Los Angeles / USA, [Projekt-Architect)
2008-2014
PhD in Design & Computation, MIT, School of Architecture and Planning, Boston
2008
sparc, Design & Research Collective, Boston (Cofounder)
2013
Assitstant Professor, Pratt Institute Brooklyn, New York
since 2015
Director d.r.a. Lab, Centre for Design Research in Architecture, New York
since 2019
dk-da,inc, New York / USA (founder)
2022/23
Univ. lector TU Wien, Vienna / A
 
Lives and works in New York / USA and in Vienna / A.

Awards / Scholarships
2012
CCA Phd Fellow, Canadian Center for Architecture 
2008
Smart Geometry, Munich, scholarship sponsored by Bentley
2007
The Presidential Graduate Fellowship Award, MIT
1995
Tische, work-abroad fellowship, Ministry of Science and Art, Austria
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Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2023
paper positions munich (zs art galerie), Munich / D
FALTTAFELN; Grundstein 14 – RAUM, Vienna / A

Group exhibitions  (Selection)
2024
Dialogues I – 15 years zs art galerie; zs art galerie, Vienna / A
2023
Abstract thoughts. Concrete forms. zs art galerie, Vienna
Interpretation of space; zs art galerie, Vienna
2022
‘News on Fabrication’, IDC Sponsored work 2019 to 2021, Main Gallery Pratt Institute 
2019
‘Resident Alien’, ACFNY, Austrian Cultural Forum, curated by Axel Schmitzberger and Stephen Phillips
‘Math Unfolded‘, National Museum of Mathematics, curated by Charlene Morrow and Wendy Zeichner
2014
‘Surface to Structure: Folded Forms’, at 41 Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Union
2012-2015
‘Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami’, curated by Meher McArthur, Travelling show:
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah, 2015
Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs, Bonita Springs, Florida, 2015
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington, 2014
Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, Illinois, 2014
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, 2013
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, 2013
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California, 2012
2012
Video of Design & Computation Group, Advances in Architectural Geometry, Pompidou Center, Paris
2011
‘Things to think with’, MIT150 Exhibition Design & Computation Group 2011, MIT, Boston
2010
Architectural Biennial Beijing, group exhibition from DCG, MIT, Beijing
2010
sparc: hiDrone 2.0 at SHIFTboston Gallery, Mount Ida College
2008
sparc; hiDrone, "London 2008", London

art in public space - competitions 
2016
Proposal for art installation at Gottesmann Library at Yeshiva University, New York
2015
"Peace Corps, National Design Competition", proposal for a monument, Washington D.C. / USA
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Works
Texts
Bibliography

Duks Koschitz, architect, geometrician, and object artist, explores how simple folding can create intricately nested baroque spaces from a single surface.

He also categorizes his work as "baroque minimalism." Minimalistic because the process is extremely reductive in its approach. The paper architectures evoke a baroque appearance due to the twisted interplay of spaces around and between in the emerging object. The basis of this exclusive formal language consists of a flat outline and a curved fold line, which is meticulously analyzed, characterized and categorized by Duks Koschitz. In this way, he twists the curved, overlapping partial surfaces into cascade-like topologies in the frontal view. These architectural landscapes, thus reminiscent of "baroque" fold patterns, are anarchic results of his constructive working method. In doing so, he creates forms that cannot be calculated by any formula. His experiments flourish into art objects beyond comparison.
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