Paul Preissner

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Paul Preissner Architects

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Chicago

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Born in 1974 in Park Ridge, Ill., Paul Preissner is an architect and teacher. In 2006, he founded Paul Preissner Architects, an office dedicated to visually striking and conceptually meaningful projects of architecture. Paul Preissner was a Senior Designer and Project Architect at Eisenman Architects and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, as well as having worked as designer for Philip Johnson prior to establishing his own practice. In 2006 his office was awarded the 2nd prize in the international competition for the design of the Gyeonggi-do Museum of Pre-History in South Korea. The office has had its creativity and original language of architecture recognized through publications, exhibitions, lectures, and absorbed into the permanent collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2009, Paul Preissner was given a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago as part of the 10 year UBS 12x12 series of new artist work, becoming the first architect represented in the series. Receiving his education from the University of Illinois (BsArch) and Columbia University (MArch), he has taught design and technology at SCI_Arc, was a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and served as the Hyde Chair of Architecture at the University of Nebraska for 2006. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he is the coordinator for the Master of Architecture program. Paul lectures widely, having keynoted international conferences, as well as lecturing at universities around the globe. Paul lives in Chicago with his wife (Cathleen), their daughter (Amelia), and their italian greyhound (Klaus).

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12APR 2012

Busan Opera / Paul Preissner Architects

Posted in Architecture - Cultural by Paul Preissner

The design for the Busan Opera House relies on three main ideas: To provide a strong urban statement in newly forming cultural district; To develop a clear visual strategy for the identity of the Opera which is simultaneously familiar and never-before seen; To create a unique building for the center of the cultural district with a contemporary architectural approach shaped to optimize active and passive energy use.

This project develops its personality by a combination of unique formal expression through the shape of the building, rational programmatic organization, and a curated graphic pattern (stripes) in order to produce a project that looks like nothing before it.

The project cantilevers its second level 5m above the entry level to allow for a very petit ground level footprint that enable the public to be welcomes by the building before even entering.

This allows for a sequence from the pedestrian bridge that takes one over the creek, then onto the site, then within the buildings perimeter gallery sheltered from the elements by the cantilevered volume of the restaurant and convention spaces, to finally being within the major public lobby for the opera.

The lobby is located within one of the glass stripes of the volume allowing for an impressive space and acts as the counterpart to the massive opaque volumes of the theaters.

City:
Busan

Client:
Busan Metropolitan City

Status:
Competition

Year:
2011

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