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r The Vorarlberg region has a high density of excellent architectural offices. What are headed by Matthias Kastl (competitions) and Joachim Ambrosig (execution). As the
made you apply specifically at the Bernardo Bader office? third, I would also add to this the communication section managed by Judith Wellmann
I first came into contact with the works by the office on a three-day study trip to Bregen- which nowadays is an increasingly more important factor. All three are always in close
zerwald as part of my third undergraduate semester at the Karlsruhe Institute of Techno- exchange with Bernardo. I have never perceived these sections of the office as actually
logy. Without already having known Bernardo and his office at the time, I found two of separated since one meets every employee at lunch taken together or at least at the cof-
his buildings, the Islamic cemetery in Altach and the Salgenreute Chapel, highly impres- fee machine and there is constant exchange beyond these divisions as well. Thanks to
sive in very different ways – not last due to their consistent determined reference to the the rather small size of the team, I found the atmosphere in the office to be very personal
place, their close link to craftsmanship and their very own unity of material and structure. and family-like. Perhaps I should also mention that I myself am rather restrained and
In simple words: I found them harmonious. Of course, the size of the office and quite that this was my first internship. But it was very easy for me to integrate myself as a new
simply the likeable first impression of the team also played a major role in my applying member of the team. I generally always had the feeling of being part of the team and of
for an internship at Bernardo Bader. I can really only recommend the office. being able to contribute something.

r Bernardo Bader is deeply rooted in his Vorarlberg home region. What were you r When you started at Bernardo Bader, you had just graduated as a Bachelor. How
able to learn from him about regional working in an increasingly more globally ope- were you able to contribute in the office?
rating world? I spent the first few weeks of my internship mainly in the model workshop on the base-
In general, the option of digital working especially in the field of architecture suggest, as I ment floor of the office building and there was thus busy with different models which
find, a quite a kind of working that is not location-specific – not only in the sense of the had already been a pleasure for me during my studies. Let me state here, however, that
“home office” due to the pandemic but also in view of an increasingly more homogenous this was already the first thing I learnt for myself: Model construction does not belong in
architectural scene. What, however, from my point of view as well is the basis of good and the basement. In the further course of my time in the office – besides the classic tasks of
sustainable architecture is not last a profound knowledge of the location and its culture. interns such as shopping or sporadically running errands – I was, for instance, allowed
Without this, it is in my opinion not possible to understand the local architecture. Especi- to work on competitions for architectural awards, the graphic design of a lecture, on vi-
ally through working in his home region and not last through close cooperation with the sualization variants with photoshop, on photographing models and also on the editing
Vorarlberg craftsmen, Bernardo and his entire office succeed in integrating this idea in nu- of plans and photographs for an upcoming publication. From my point of view, the work
merous projects. I do not believe this would be possible without a personal connection in the office was highly varied. I had contact with each and every employee. I especially
to the Vorarlberg and the Bregenzerwald – especially since the people of Bregenzerwald liked the fact that I carried a certain amount of responsibility for my work in the office
are also somewhat headstrong as experienced when having to deal with outsiders. and, particularly in the field of the graphic tasks, was able to contribute my own ideas as
well. I learnt in the office that, contrary to during the studies, practice has a much wider
r The office is in a self-designed exposed-concrete building in Klostergasse in Bre- scope as regards the issues of execution and the actual construction. Bernardo once put
genz. How is it structured and how is work accomplished there? this very succinctly: “Some things only make sense a few years later.” I believe this is
The office is essentially divided into the two sections competition and execution which one of his sayings which will really stay in my memory.

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