Ornamental Art & Design

WERNER VAN HOEYDONCK

MITISGASSE 15/24

1140 VIENNA -AUSTRIA

Tel. 0043 699 11109296

Mail: werner@vanhoeydonck.com

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Schillerplatz 3
1010 Vienna, Austria
W.vanhoeydonck@akbild.ac.at

^{Curriculum Vitae}
11.07.1969:
Born in Brecht, Belgium.
EDUCATION
1981 – 1983:
Latin-Mathematics, Jesuits Saint-Joseph College, Turnhout, Belgium.
1983 – 1987:
Mathematics – sciences, Jesuits Saint-Joseph College, Turnhout, Belgium.
1987 – 1992:
Master in Architecture at Luca School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium.
-Master project: Classical Concert Hall for Ghent: Highest Distinction and ‘Willy Van Hove’ Award.
-Thesis Project: ‘Andrea Palladio: Temple Builder with an Ideology, Promotor Prof. dr. Raoul Bauer. Handwritten translation in Dutch of Palladio’s ‘I Quattro Libri dell’ Architettura’.
-Study travelling in Europe: Netherlands – Finland – Sweden – Norway – England – Scottland – France -Spain – Italy – Switzerland – Germany – Austria – Czech Republic – Slovakia – Hungary – Romania.
1993 – 1996:
Free student in Art and Architectural History, under mentorship of Prof. dr. Otto Antonia Graf, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna followed by a 2 – year scholarship by BMWF (Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung):
-Privatissimum for Architects on Otto Wagner and Frank Lloyd Wright.
-‘The Unity of Art, World History of Basic Forms’.
-Organization of a Seminar about Frank Lloyd Wright, speaker O. A. Graf, Henry Van De Velde Institute in Antwerp (1996).
-Organization of a workshop about Frank Lloyd Wright by Prof. Dr. Otto Antonia Graf at Luca School of the arts, Ghent, Belgium (1996). List of publications Prof. Dr. Otto Antonia Graf.
APPRENTICESHIPS in ARCHITECTURAL OFFICES
1996 – 2001:
-Internship architect Barbara Van der Wee (restauration of Viktor Horta’s studio and private House, Brussels, Belgium followed by an internship at Mens en Ruimte, Groep Planning, Brussels.
(6 months). Internship at Jo d’Hoore architects, Ghent Belgium (24 months). Project coordination at architectenatelier Boud Rombouts (24 months). Project coordination Archi-tec (Building Company), Antwerp (6 months).

-Otto Wagner Exhibition, Witte Zaal, Ghent, Belgium. Publication Main Catalogue Text (1998).
TEK7 ARCHITECTS
2001 – 2011:
-Design and realization of some 100 small Projects (Family houses, apartment buildings, renovations, industrial complexes and offices buildings). Portfolio Tek7 Architects (selection).
-Member of NAV (National Board of Architects Belgium) and the Belgium Architects Association.
-Professional trainings (37 lectures, workshops and seminars during the years 1996 – 2011) on architectural topics organized by NAV.
ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS
-Community Housing Competition, Vienna, Jury Member Hans Hollein, honourable Mention (1996).
-Swatch House Competition, Sto AG, Hamburg: 3rd Price (1996).
-Low Energy House Competition, Darmstadt, honourable mention (1996).
-TATAMI Housing Project Cometition, Call for ideas for new ways of compact living; organized by the flemish Government, honourable mention (1997).
INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS – SYMPOSIA & CONGRESSES
-1991: ILAUD (International Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design) founded and organized by the Italian architect GIANCARLO DE CARLO, Urbino, Italy.
Reading and Designing the Physical Environment 1. Online pdf. see p.79 (freehand drawings) and p. 109 top right (Project for a Stadium in Ghent, Belgium.)
-1993: Seminar on Wooden Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia.
-1996: 4th European Conference on Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning, Berlin.
-1996: Architecture and City Planning in Antiquity, Ephesus,Turkey.
-1998: 5th European Conference on Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning, Bonn, Germany.
-2016: Symmetry Festival, Technical University Vienna. symmetry-festival-2016
-Centre for Geometry and Computational Design (GCD), Technical University Vienna. – GCD Symposium 2 (2015) – GCD Symposium 3 (2016) – GCD Symposium 4 (2017).
-2019: Symmetry. Art and Science, 11th International Congress and Exhibition, Kanazawa, Japan. Lecture and paper.
-2022: Porto, Symmetry: Art and Science, 12th International Congress. Lecture and paper.
ORNAMENTAL ART AND DESIGN VIENNA
-2011 – 2012:
Closure of Tek 7 Architects, relocation to Vienna with wife and daughter.
-2012: Foundation of Ornamental Art and Design: Intensive study of Otto Antonia Graf’s book ‘The unity of Art, World history of Basic Forms’.
-2014: Member of DESIGN AUSTRIA. Co-founder and Member of the Expert Cluster Packaging Design.
-Since 2012: Textile trade fairs, design fairs, printing technique and packaging design fairs
(Milan, Frankfurt, Nurnberg, Brussels, Paris, Vienna, Salzburg).
-2014 – present: Design & Research on geometrical ornaments and patterns. Visits to art and specialized archeological libraries in Vienna gathering pdf’s of around 300 books on art and architectural history in old cultures. Development and organization of workshops on the topic of geometry, ornaments and patterns:
Origins of Ornament, Sacred Geometry, Geometry for Artists, Architectural drawing by hand, Islamic, Design, Celtic Design, Japanese Design Motivs (Crests), Escher Patterns with 28 HEESCH methods in my studio, at the Kunstvolkshochschule Vienna, Zeichenfabrik Vienna, Technical University Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Expansion of my library with books on ornaments, patterns, old cultures, archeology, design, geometry, architecture, textiles and carpet design.
ART AND DESIGN PROJECTS
-2015 – present: ‘The Ambassadors’.
The Ambassadors is a series of 27 digitally made designs for the purpose of digital print, inspired by geometrical motifs found in the Hall of the Ambassadors, in the palace of the Alhambra, Granada, Spain.
-2016 – present: ‘Bruchstücke’
‘Bruchstücke’ (Eng. : ‘fragments’) is a series of handmade drawings for digital screen prints combining motifs from nature, the history of ornament, and, in recent work, signs and symbols. The works raises the question of digital versus handmade, nature versus technology in our modern world.
-2016: Vienna Design Week – Platonic solids
My interest for polyhedra as well as the relationship between 2D and 3D patterns started in 2016 and has since then been an important research topic that I worked on with hundreds of students at the Academy of Fine Arts and Technical University Vienna.
INTERIOR DESIGN EXPERIENCE
-2018 – 2020:
Senior Designer ARCHISPHERE. Design and Construction Drawings & freehand perspectives for hotel projects and one ‘luxurious’ residence.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
-2017: Application for the Programme for Arts-based Research PEEK in collaboration with the Institute for Art and Design, Kunst2, Technical University Vienna.
-2017: Lecture on Parquet Deformations, Institute of Three-Dimensional Design and Model Making, Dep. of Architecture and Spatial Planning, Technical University Vienna.

Winter Semester (WS) 2017: Univ. Lect. Institute of Three-Dimensional Design and Model Making, Dep. of Architecture and Spatial Planning, TU WIEN. My proposal for design and research with 800 students on Parquet Deformations led to my first book Space Tessellations, Birkhäuser, 2022.

WS 2018: Univ. Lect. Institute of Three-Dimensional Design and Model Making, Dep. of Architecture and Spatial Planning, TU WIEN. Following the great results of the previous year, a second assignment was developed for 700 students.
The best results and my academic research were published in Space Tessellations – Experimenting with Parquet Deformations. Japanese Link
-2021: Guest Lecture on Design and Analysis of Parquet Deformations, FATUK, Kaiserslautern.
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-2018 – present: Univ. Lect. Descriptive Geometry I and II, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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WS 2021 – 2022: Artistic Master Project X. Polyhedral Sculpting, Institute of Three-Dimensional Design and Model Making, Dep. of Architecture and Spatial Planning, Technical University Vienna.
-2020 -2022: Main Editor of Space Tessellations – Experimenting with Parquet Deformations. The book was presented in Kiesler Foundation
PUBLICATIONS
-‘Ornament: History and Future’, Co-published with Luisa Paumann in fair, 2016,.
-Van Hoeydonck, Werner, William Huff’s Parquet Deformations: Two Viennese Experiments, pp. 286-289, in Symmetry: Art and Science, The Journal of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, Editors: I. Vandoulakis and D. Nagy. Congress Venue: Ohgigaoka Campus, Kanazawa Institute of
Technology; Symmetry: Art and Science, 2019 – 11th Congress and Exhibition of SIS. Special Theme: Tradition and Innovation in Symmetry – Katachi 形 Kanazawa, Japan, November 25-30, 2019.
-Van Hoeydonck, Werner, William Huff’s Parquet Deformations: Two Viennese Experiments, pp. 383-386, Proceedings of Bridges 2020: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture, 2020, Ed. Yackel Carolyn, Bosch Robert, Torrence Eve, Fenyvesi Kristof. ISBN 978-1-938664-36-6, Tessellations Publishing, Phoenix, Arizona http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2020/bridges2020-383.html
-Van Hoeydonck, W., Space Tessellations, Polyhedral Sculpting, pp. 40-47, paper published in the 2022 Special Issue of the Symmetry: Art and Science. The digital version will be announced soon; the printed version, with 390 pages, was offered to the Congress participants and has the following bibliographic reference: Viana, V., Nagy, D., Xavier, J., Neiva, A., Ginoulhiac, M., Mateus, L. & Varela, P. (Eds.). (2022). Symmetry: Art and Science | 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress [Special Issue]. Symmetry: Art and Science. Porto: International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry.
-Hoeydonck, W. V. (2022). Past and Future of William S. Huff’s Parquet Deformations. Space Tessellations, pp 39-63. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035625189
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
-Hoeydonck, Werner Van, Kern, Christian and Sommeregger, Eva. Space Tessellations: Experimenting with Parquet Deformations, Berlin, Boston: Birkhäuser, 2022.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035625189
CURRENT PROJECT
-2022 – present:
MPP, Multifunctional Parametric Patterns.
Design and Research on patterns & algorithms inspired by nature and geometry. Development of REPTILER, an parametric definition in Grasshopper for Generative Pattern Design.
Team:
Farhad Kay, carpentry company LIGAS and LIGUIDS, Berlin
Takashi Yoshino, Toyo University.
Tassilo Goldmann M. Sc.
Werner Van Hoeydonck
SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP
-2019 – present: Board member of SIS-Symmetry
Symmetry: Art and Science is devoted to the study of patterns in a sense of symmetry in sciences and the arts. These patterns pervade many fields of natural sciences and the humanities. Symmetry in Art and Science, Science on Form (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Architecture, etc), Space Structure, Tessellation, Geometry and Islamic Art, Symmetry in Traditional Culture, Regional Culture and Design: East and West, Asian Design.
Its main objectives are: to bring together artists and scientists, educators and students devoted to, or interested in, the research and understanding of the concept and application of symmetry (asymmetry, dissymmetry); to provide regular information to the general public about events in symmetry studies; to ensure a regular forum (including the organization of symposia, and the publication of a periodical) for all those interested in symmetry studies. The topic was introduced for the first time by Russian, Dutch, German and Polish scholars. Then in 1952, Hermann Weyl published his fascinating book Symmetry, which was later translated into 10 languages. Since then, it became an attractive subject of research in various fields. A variety of manifestations of the principle of symmetry in sculpture, painting, architecture, ornament, and design, in organic and inorganic nature has been revealed; the philosophical and mathematical significance of this principle has been studied. During the 1980’s the discussions concerning the nature of the world, whether it was essentially probabilistic or naturally geometric, revived the interest of the researchers to the topic. The
intellectual atmosphere of this period facilitated the idea of establishment of a new institution devoted to the study of all forms of complexity and patterns of symmetry and orderly structures pervading science, nature and society, that ultimately led to the establishment of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry. SIS-Symmetry hosts an International Congress and Exhibition entitled Symmetry: Art and Science every three years. The following is a list of the congresses held so far:
1989, in Budapest, Hungary, 1992, in Hiroshima, Japan, 1995, in Washington DC, United States of America, 1998, in Haifa, Israel, 2001, in Sydney, Australia, 2004, in Tihany, Hungary, 2007, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010, in Gmünd, Austria, 2013, in Crete, Greece, 2016, in Adelaide, Australia, 2019, in Kanazawa, Japan, 2022, Porto.
GENERAL INFORMATION
-Languages:
Fluent in Dutch (Flemish), French, English, German, basic knowledge of Italian and Spanisch
-Computer skills:
MS OFFICE, ADOBE CS, Vectorworks, Sketch-up, Rhino and Grasshopper, Archicad, Autocad.
SPECIAL TOPICS OF INTEREST
Morphology in fauna and flora, biology, diatoms and radiolaria, fossils, crystallography, mathematics (Tilings and Patterns), the geometry of mechanical engineering, geometry and the regulation or division of space as a common topic in all sciences. Parametric design based on logarithms inspired by nature. Collaboration between designers and scientists. Visual programming (Mathematica and Grasshopper).
MISSION STATEMENT
Giving all my knowledge and passion to the students, they are the future.

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