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…
Excursion
© Architekturzentrum Wien
The best way to experience architecture is directly on site. The Architekturzentrum Wien brings your group by bus, metro or on foot to the most striking examples of architecture from the 20th and 21st century in Vienna and its surroundings.
What are the challenges presented by a growing modern metropolis with a historical legacy? Currently, which themes is the local architecture scene examining? Which architecture icons can we learn the most from? What’s it like to live in Vienna? Our competent guides are happy to inform you and to discuss these questions with you.
Tailor-made excursions for groups to meet your specific wishes can be planned and booked at any time.
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Excursion for children and young people
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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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Standard Excursion 5
Campus WU and Surroundings
Studying, Working and Accommodation
The campus of Vienna’s University of Economics and Business offers the most compact mix of spectacular architecture imaginable. Zaha Hadid’s Library and Learning Center is…
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Standard Excursion 6
The way we live
New social housing concepts at the Nordbahnhof
The quality of life in Vienna is one of the highest in the world! The high living standard goes hand-in-hand with a historically developed culture…
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Standard Excursion 4
The Wiener Werkbundsiedlung
Living and housing concepts of modernism
Vienna in the early ’30s, the proponents of the Garden City movement realized, under the leadership of Josef Frank, a model settlement of modernity: the…
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Barrier-free Excursion
Donau City
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
Donau City is situated directly above a freeway. It was roofed over with concrete slabs so that buildings could be erected here. In some places…
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Barrier-free Excursion
MuseumsQuartier
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
Summer can hardly be imagined today without the MuseumsQuartier and all of its museums, dance and youth theatres and pavement cafés. This has not always…
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Barrier-free Excursion
Gasometer
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
In 1896 the City of Vienna built the gasometers in the style of industrial architecture – a gasometer is a gas storage tank. They have…
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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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Standard Excursion 3
Vienna City Walk: Dawn of Modernism
Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos and contemporaries
The start of the 20th century was a time of upheaval and renewal in Vienna. Personalities like Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos left their stamp…
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Barrier-free Excursion
Karl-Marx-Hof
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
Karl-Marx-Hof is, with a length of 1.2km, one of the largest and most famous buildings in Vienna. As an icon of Socialist Vienna’s housing developments…
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Standard Excursion 7
A City Under Development
Around the New Vienna Central Station
The restructuring of the grounds around the former Südbahnhof has allowed for the large-scale development of a new city district. The face of Vienna has…
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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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Standard Excursion 1
Vienna City Walk: Architectural Scandals
What upsets the Viennese: from MQ to Looshaus
The Viennese have often reacted to changes in their city with vehement resistance and ridicule. The Secession got its “golden head of cabbage”, the uncompromising…
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Barrier-free Excursion
Kabelwerk
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
A new City District has been developed on the grounds of the former Kabelwerk factory in Wien-Meidling on the basis of what is a unique…
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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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Standard Excursion 8
Red Vienna
More than just Housing Developments
100 years after the Social Democrats won the first municipal elections following the accession of voting rights for men and women, Vienna is still known…
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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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Barrier-free Excursion
Gänsehäufel
Excursion for blind and visually impaired poeple
The approx. 150 year old riverside bathing facility, converted in the 1940s, is situated on an island on the Alte Donau. The architects Max Fellerer…
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Standard Excursion 2
Vienna City Walk: Architecture & Design
From Loos’ American Bar to Hollein’s Haas House
This tour provides an expedition through the history of design and architecture in Vienna. Beginning with the American Bar by Adolf Loos it leads, via…
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Tailor-made Excursions
Vienna individually
We are happy to advise you with planning tours and selecting projects along suitable routes. Walks, half-day or whole day tours, either by bus or…