Forschungsmaterial zu Wien
The Renate Banik-Schweitzer Archive documents her long-standing scholarly engagement with the development of the city of Vienna and its planning history. Her research focuses on housing construction, infrastructure, and the city's socio-spatial structures. Her work moreover includes historical and economic analyses of urban development processes.
This section of the Archive offers insights into the materials for the Planungsatlas Wien (Vienna Planning Atlas), published by Municipal Department 18 starting in 1983. The atlas is one of the key instruments for fundamental urban planning work and simultaneously documents the planning discourse of the 1980s in Vienna.
Biography
- Born in Vienna in 1939
- 1957–1965 Studied architecture at the Technical University of Graz and the Technical University of Vienna
- 1972 Received her doctorate from the Institute of Urban Planning and Regional Development at the Technical University of Vienna with a dissertation on state-subsidized, municipal, and non-profit housing and settlement construction in Austria up to 1945
- 1965–1967 University assistant at the Institute of Urban Planning and Regional Development, Department of Spatial Planning and Development, at the Technical University of Vienna
- 1967 Promotion of scholarly work by Dr. Adolf Schärf Fund
- 1972 Grant for scholarly work from the Camillo Sitte Fund
- 1970–1977 Research Associate at the Institute of Urban Research in Vienna
- From 1977 on Research Associate at the Vienna Municipal and Provincial Archives, responsible for planning and realizing the Historischer Atlas von Wien (Historical Atlas of Vienna) and the Österreichischer Städteatlas (Austrian Historic Towns Atlas)
- 1981–2015 Editor and overall scholarly director of the Historischer Atlas von Wien (Historical Atlas of Vienna) and the Österreichischer Städteatlas (Austrian Historic Towns Atlas), together with Felix Czeike
- 1989–1991 Co-opted board member of the Austrian Society for Architecture (ÖGFA)
- 2002 Retirement as Senate Councillor
Awards
- Honorary membership of the Austrian Society for Architecture (ÖGFA)
