sundays

“Municipal office building city” – Erich Franz Leischner

tour 42

Sun 27.06.1999, 13:40-18:00

"Municipal office building city" - Erich Franz Leischner
© Archive Leischner

“The Municipal building office was here”

Amalien Baths, 1926 – Laaerberg Baths, 1959 – water reservoir Gallitzinberg, 1913 – fire station Steinhof, 1930 – Congress park, Congress Baths 1926 – Sandleiten kindergarten, 1928 – Lindenhof housing complex, 1924 – Pfannenstielhof housing complex, 1924 – open air bath Türkenschanzpark for children , Höhenstrasse and Leopoldsberg, 1934 – 38.

Unmoved by changing political trends Erich Leischner, as an official of the Municipal Building Office imprinted himself on the communal city map beginning from the Red Vienna up to the Rebuilding by creating communal swimming baths, communal apartment blocks and milk pavilions, kindergartens and last but not least the scenic Höhenstrasse.

This guided tour referres to the exhibition on Erich Franz Leischner at the Architekturzentrum Wien (June 16, 1999 – August 2, 1999).

Meeting: 1:40 p.m. at the Architekturzentrum Wien
Departure: 2:00 p.m.
Return: 6:00 p.m.

Tour guide: Barbara Feller

Ticket fees: EUR 10.91 (ATS 150.-) / EUR 7.27 (ATS 100.-)