[Re]building Vienna
Do you know your town?
In our city of Vienna we are surrounded by architecture, by a built environment. Between home and school we pass familiar places, which we define…
Architectural model foating in a small poole
© Architekturzenturm Wien
Have you ever thought about living on the water? About moving ‒ always by water ‒ from city to city, along with your entire home? Together we look at the materials, structural properties and architecture of floating shelter. Stimulated by various examples of these housing islands we then build our own floating home.
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A cross-section ‘a_show’
100 years of time travel in architecture
How do tradition, modernism and the future engage each other? How does architecture influence our daily lives? Around the turn of the previous century the…
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Guided Tour
a_show
Austrian Architecture in the 20th and 21st Century
In addition to the extensive range of workshops related to the permanent exhibition “a_schau. Austrian Architecture in the 20th and 21st Century” the Architekturzentrum Wien…
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Adventure City
The functions of a city
The Architekturzentrum Wien is converted into a mini-city in which we ourselves become architects, town planners, builders of bridges or roads. At the same time…
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archimatics
Mathematics in architecture
There are geometric shapes to be found wherever you look. But in which buildings are they concealed? What is the golden section, and what does…
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Architecture that celebrates life
The Indian architect and Pritzker Prize-winner Balkrishna Doshi considers architecture to be particularly successful when you don’t notice it, as he thinks it’s more important…
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Bridging the Gap
Constructing, building and testing
Bridges shape the face of our landscapes and cities. Arched bridges, chain bridges, suspension bridges, monkey bridges, cable-stayed bridges or body bridges – in the…
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Building blocks for language gaps
a_show for those learning German
Improve your German and get to know Vienna! German as a foreign language The show offers a unique view of 150 years of Austrian production…
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Building in space
Space stations and distant planets
Haven’t you always wanted to move to an alien planet, or at least to the moon – and to feel the endlessness of space at…
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Building with clay
Loam – clay – earth
Clay has long been one of humankind’s most important building materials. People built with clay 9000 years ago. What are the constituents of clay and,…
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Building with wood
On the world’s tallest timber high-rise building in Vienna
A high-rise building entirely of wood? In Vienna, of all places? The groundbreaking ceremony for the world’s tallest timber building, located in the Seestadt aspern,…
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Duckburg
On the trail of urban development with Donald and his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie
The staring roles are played by Donald Duck – the cartoon character from America – and his hometown. We study the architecture of Duckburg together:…
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Floating houses
Living on the water
Have you ever thought about living on the water? About moving ‒ always by water ‒ from city to city, along with your entire home?…
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Form, technology and construction
Box, blob or inclined tower?
Using selected examples from the a_show different forms of construction are looked at, along with their impact on the appearance of buildings. The Loos Haus…
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Glass palaces and concrete castles
Architects' building materials and techniques
Marble, stone and iron all crack – what is reinforced concrete? A comparison is made of different building materials, like bricks, concrete, wood, glass and…
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Excursion for children and young people
Housing – social and individual
From Stuwerviertel to Nordbahnhof
In the 1920s unemployment and a severe housing shortage led Red Vienna to erect housing blocks and developments that are still internationally acclaimed. Architects today…
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How do animals live?
Learning from nature
A housing shortage on the floor of the ocean, a subterranean living room, a bedroom in the middle of a river or with their home…
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How do we want to live?
Dreaming is allowed
This workshop is on the topic of housing, with a focus on the discussion of types of floor plan and different forms of housing. The…
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Land Use — let the grass grow!
The consumption of land continues to rise. On community outskirts, where land is even cheaper, new shopping centres and supermarkets with large car parks are…
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Excursion for children and young people
Look at that!
Image-bolstering with architecture
We visit representative buildings along the Danube Canal and look at the ways in which individual firms and institutions present themselves: open and flooded with…
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Excursion for children and young people
Studying and working on campus
The new WU
On the new WU campus, six international architects have realised their vision of a university building. These new buildings shimmer through the Prater park’s trees,…
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Excursion for children and young people
Subliminal seduction
Critical examination of shop design and shopping behaviour
The design and architecture of shops plays an important role in shopping behaviour – is a shop very inviting or perhaps is the design so…
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The Az W goes to school
No time for field trips away? Let us come to you!
School-goers know their own schools from everyday experience. But the conscious perception of these spaces is not something that should be taken for granted. Usually…
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The profession of the architect
Planning, drawing, building
What exactly do architects do? What is the difference between an engineer and an architect? And how can one become an architect? We offer insights…
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Barrier-free Excursion
The Vienna Ringstraße
Excursion in easily understandable language
The aim of the tour is for participants to get to know the city, exchange ideas and be open to new subject matter, come closer…
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Excursion for children and young people
The Vienna Ringstraße
Parade ground of the bourgeoisie
With a length of 5.3 kilometres the Ringstraße in Vienna provides the setting for numerous monumental buildings that were erected during the historicist era from…
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When buildings scrape the sky …
High, higher, highest
Do you know which are the highest buildings in the world? Or do you know what a paternoster is? What is, actually, a steel frame…
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WOHN – mobil
My house to go
Who hasn’t dreamed of living in a home that can be carried around, of being able to really enjoy mobile living? Moving from one city…
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Excursion for children and young people
WU + 2 = NEU
The new WU and the urban development project in the 2nd District
How will we work, study or live in the future? In Viertel 2, located along the extended U2 line, the second district offers a number…
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You Only Live Twice
James Bond is a child of the Cold War and an embodiment of the self-image of the West like no other: clever, cosmopolitan, invincible and…