Architektur.Film.Sommer 2018

New from Old from New

Cinema evenings in the Az W courtyard

Wed 01.08.2018, 20:00

Mensch mit Pferdekopf auf Strasse — Forms in Relation to Life / Die Wiener Werkbundsiedlung
© D: Heidrun Holzfeind

The opening evening is dedicated to modern housing and city models. How do people live today in the Werkbundsiedlung housing estate in Vienna? And what became of the ideals of a group of architects aiming to transform postwar London into a more socially equitable city?

Forms in Relation to Life / Die Wiener Werkbundsiedlung, AT 2014, 60:00 mins. OV with subtitles, Dir: Heidrun Holzfeind

The Internationale Werkbundsiedlung Wien was completed in 1932 as a small-scale alternative to the municipal housing blocks of Red Vienna. Heidrun Holzfeind shows a portrait of the compact buildings in a green setting and their occupants.

Aufstieg, HU/AT 2016, 03:11 mins, without speech, Dir: Eginhartz Kanter

Utopia London, UK 2010, 82:00 mins., OV (in English), Dir: Tom Cordell

There was a time when the vision of a better future formed in London: young planners combined science and art to create a city worth living in. Inspired by their optimism, the question we are facing today is: Where to now?