Visions: Anja Innauer & Markus Innauer

„With a little less speed, many things could be made more meaningful," says Markus Innauer, picking up on a thought that Anja Innauer also formulated in the interview: "The planning process is the most important. It takes time to find the right solutions for a specific task and place." Anja Innauer & Markus Innauer, NONA & Innauer Matt Dornbirn & Bezau, Austria

Anja Innauer & Markus Innauer

Anja Innauer & Markus Innauer, NONA & Innauer Matt Dornbirn & Bezau, Austria

Christine Müller

Architecture journalist Vienna, Austria

The interview series "Visions" continues. In the third episode, two young architects have their say: Anja and Markus Innauer.

They agree on their basic attitude: buildings must be planned in such a way that they can be used for as long as possible. Nevertheless, they bring in their own accents. While Anja Innauer focuses on the exchange with people of other professions and the joint work, Markus Innauer challenges the architecture industry with the desire for beautiful architecture.

Both have made a name for themselves with their offices – beyond the borders of their homeland, Vorarlberg. Right from the start, Markus Innauer formulates the central idea of the permanence of architecture as an answer to today's challenges. Buildings with a long life save resources in the form of raw materials and energy. Anja Innauer agrees. For them, the structure of a building is the key to its use over generations.

Anja Innauer leads together with Nora Heinzle the architectural office NONA Architektinnen in Dornbirn and is a municipal councillor and deputy mayor of the Vorarlberg municipality of Bezau.

Markus Innauer founded in 2012 with Sven Matt the office Innauer Matt Architekten based in Bezau and is board member of the Vorarlberg Architecture Institute and a member of the design advisory board of the municipality of Alberschwende.

Christine Müller is an architecture journalist. In 2002, she began her work at "Österreichischen Wirtschaftsverlag" as a specialist editor of the architecture magazine Architektur & Bau Forum, whose editor-in-chief she took over in 2012 and held until her appointment at the end of 2020.

More interviews in the series:

Florian Nagler

Florian Nagler Architekten Munich, Germany

Barbara Buser

Baubüro in situ
Basel, Switzerland

Dietmar Eberle

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten, Lustenau, Austria