Daryan Knoblauch: 000

000 is a book
000 is an exhibition

000 is the debris after an era of comfort
000 favours prototypes over archetypes
000 utilises functional misuse as guiding principle
000 uses structure as device for exposure and protection
000 perceives space as gathering machines
000 thrives on friction rather than resolution
000 is a vehicle for decay and opulence
000 turns observation into a mutual gaze
000 searches for balance between despair and elegance
000 establishes absence and allure
000 brutalises display into form
000 indicates entropy and eternity
000 serves in isolation and excess
000 problematises instead of moralises
000 generates atmospheric armour for the now
000 operates between collision and control
000 foregrounds restrained applications
000 stages violence and vulnerability
000 declares the civic realm as sensory interface
000 creates spatial tools for total publicness
000 is complicit in the equation that planning equals conflict
000 advocates for the power of the project
000 understands architecture as an optical instrument

000—Systems, Prosthetics, Devices is a collision of architectural, technological, infrastructural, artisanal and climatical references gathered from the studio archive of the architecture practice directed by Daryan Knoblauch.

Daryan Knoblauch runs the eponymous architecture practice founded in 2024 in Berlin. His approach follows socio-cultural investigations of the present day, articulated in the form of cultural buildings, pavilions, and scenographies. The studio has been awarded with the Best Next Practice 2025 prize by ArchDaily among others. Since graduating in 2021 from the Architectural Association in London, Daryan has been teaching as a Studio Master at the AA, the Royal College of Art, and Porto Academy 2025, among others. His work has been shown at MoMA NYC, The World Around, the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Seoul Architecture Biennale among others.

MAGAZIN is an exhibition space for contemporary architecture in Vienna run by Jerome Becker and Matthias Moroder. MAGAZIN presents the work of local and international architects in solo exhibitions that are especially conceived for the spaces in the Rembrandtstrasse location—framed by corresponding lectures, panel discussions and publications.