Holdings: Margherita Spiluttini

Eine Frau mit Sonnenbrille und kurzen Haaren und schwarzer Bluse auf einer Baustelle stehend, dahinter zwei Kräne und blauer Himmel — in 1989 at the construction site of the Pilotengasse housing development, Vienna, 1987–1992
© Architekturzentrum Wien, Collection, Margherita Spiluttini photo archive

The Margherita Spiluttini Photographic Archive is one of the most important photographic collections on architectural creation in Austria from 1980 to 2005.

“Architecture is always something made by human beings and therefore says something important about them.” (Margherita Spiluttini)

Commissioned by prominent architects and theorists, Margherita Spiluttini documented over 4,000 buildings and objects. Her work focused on documenting contemporary architecture. However, it also includes studies on urban planning and anonymous architecture, as well as explorations of historical buildings, public art, and exhibition documentation.

Margherita Spiluttini worked not only throughout Austria but also abroad, for example, in Switzerland during her long-standing collaboration with the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron. Numerous independent photographic projects, including the series Nach der Natur (After Nature) on architectural interventions in the alpine landscape, complete this extensive collection.

Holdings

Approximately 100,000 photographs, primarily large-format sheet film slides (fully digitized); Reproductions can be ordered from the Architekturzentrum Wien for a fee.

Biography

Born 16.10. 1947 in Schwarzach, Salzburg
From 1981 on Freelance photographer
1995–1999 Member of the Board of the Vienna Secession
1998 and 1999 Lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
1999–2001 Member of the Photography Advisory Board of the Arts Section of the Federal Chancellery
2000–2002 Visiting Professor at the University of Art and Design Linz
2008–2011 Member of the Board of the Vienna Secession again
Died 03.03.2023 in Vienna