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Past Events

Lecture, discussion & guided tour
Fri 07.11.2025
16:00-20:00
Anupama Kundoo
Rethinking Materiality. Human Resourcefulness and Natural Resources
"The act of building produces knowledge just as the resulting knowledge produces buildings", says Anupama Kundoo. In her lecture, the…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
iC goes Az W
Thu 06.11.2025
17:00-19:30
Sustainable Construction with Concrete?
Concrete is one of the most widely used building materials worldwide – and at the same time responsible for around…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Event
Sun 26.10.2025
10:00-19:00
Open Door at the Az W
Free admission all day
As guests of the Architekturzentrum Wien Architecture Lounge, on 26 October admission is free for everybody interested in architecture. The…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
Talk Show
Wed 22.10.2025
18:00-20:00
Club Architektur #16
The Good Life for the 99 % — What Can Architecture Contribute to a Fairer World?
How can cities be made fairer, more environmentally friendly and better to live in — for everybody, and not just…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Lecture & Discussion
Wed 15.10.2025
19:00-20:00
Planning: The Future of Space
Adaptable planning strategies for cities
dérive – Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung celebrates its 25th anniversary and is taking this occasion to dedicate this year's urbanize! Festival…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Event
Sat 04.10.2025
18:00-00:00
ORF The Long Night of Museums
Once again the Az W is participating in the ORF nationwide event for museums, The Long Night of Museums. Night…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
Lecture & Response
Wed 24.09.2025
18:00-20:00
The Modernist Balancing Act
The Camp as Hybrid Architecture
In times of war and disaster, camps almost reflexively become a form of temporary accommodation and a means of internment…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Opening of the exhibition
Wed 17.09.2025
19:00-22:00
Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo
What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? The exhibition “Abundance Not Capital” presents the work of Indian-born architect…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
Lecture & Discussion
Thu 04.09.2025
18:00-20:00
"You Can't Build Clouds"*
Ranjit Hoskote sees utopia as "a leitmotif of modern architectural thinking." How do built utopias live up to their expectations?…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025
Wed 20.08.2025
20:30
Get together! Models of Togetherness
Film nights in the Az W courtyard
Bürger*innenKRAFTwerk — the story of an energy community, AT 2024, 8:00 min, ov with English subtitles, D: Yilmaz Vurucu, Bahanur…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025
Wed 13.08.2025
20:30
From the Front Garden to the Motorway
Film nights in the Az W courtyard
Split Lives, HK 2021, 5:23 min, ov with English subtitles, D: Joshua Bolchover, John LinIn China today, urbanisation and standardised…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025
Wed 06.08.2025
20:30
Peak Oil — To the Last Drop?
Film nights in the Az W courtyard
Nenets vs Gas, FR/BE/FI/NO 2023, 52:00 min, ov with English subtitles, D: Sergio GhizzardiThe Yamal Peninsula in the heart of…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025
Wed 30.07.2025
20:30
American Dreams
Film nights in the Az W courtyard
Tupperware, an American marketing phenomenon, US 2003, 58:33 min, Eov, D: Laurie Kahn-LeavittTupperware: a plastic product, a company and a…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
Filmfestival
Wed 30.07., 06.08., 13.08., 20.08.
from 20:30
Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025
Suburbia. From the American Dream to Peak Oil
The thirteenth edition of the international film festival invites all you film and architecture buffs to drop in, hang out,…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
Workshop (0–99)
Sun 29.06.2025
11:00-17:00
LEGO construction site
On the first Sunday of the school holidays there is space at the Az W for the big LEGO building…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
Lecture & Discussion
Wed 25.06.2025
18:00-20:00
House Europe! Power to Renovation
How Can a Shift in Approach to Building Be Successful in Vienna, Austria and Europe?
As of today, 25% of buildings in Europe have been renovated. The annual renovation rate of 1% would have to…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Presentation & Discussion
Wed 18.06.2025
18:00-20:00
Kharkiv – Vienna: Conversations on the Productive City
Owing to the Russian incursion, the 2023 Kyiv Biennial was hosted in Vienna. In this context, the IG Architektur launched…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Lecture & Response
Wed 11.06.2025
18:00-20:00
Built Role Models
To accompany the exhibition 'Suburbia'
The architect Jan Engelke describes the detached house as a "sexist form of housing". The lecture and response shed light…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Lecture & Panel discussion
Wed 14.05.2025
18:00-20:00
Living in Suburbia
How the American Dream Came to Austria — To Stay
Since the corona pandemic, living in the suburbs has once again become increasingly popular: having your own house in the…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Event
Thu 01.05.2025
10:00-19:00
Open Door at the Az W
Free admission all day
As guests of the Architekturzentrum Wien Architecture Lounge, on 1 May admission is free for everybody interested in architecture. The…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
Talk Show
Wed 23.04.2025
18:00-20:00
Club Architektur #15
The Heat Stress Test. Survival Strategies for Climate Change in the City
High temperatures put stress on us all. According to experts, heat presents the greatest risk to health among the impacts…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Vienna Elections 2025
Wed 09.04.2025
18:00-20:00
Developing the City of The Future
A discussion of urban redevelopment policy in Vienna
Before the Vienna Council elections in 2025, the representatives of the different Parties discuss their concepts for the development of…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Award ceremony, lecture and discussion
Tue 01.04.2025
18:00-20:00
At the Az W: Better Housing for the Majority — but how?
The Bruno Kreisky Prize for Social-Ecological Housing and Communal Living
The Bruno Kreisky Prize for Socio-Ecological Housing 2024 goes to the book ‘Cooperative Conditions. A Primer on Architecture, Finance and…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Presentation & Discussion
Wed 26.03.2025
18:00-20:00
When the Kids Move Out
The Future of the Single-family Home
A single-family house is the dream home and the everyday experience for most Austrians. The majority of the 1.53 million…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Opening of the exhibition
Wed 05.03.2025
19:00-22:00
Suburbia
Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
Call for Films: Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025
Thu 12.12.2024 – Wed 22.01.2025
Suburbia. From American Dream to Peak Oil
NEW Deadline for submissions: 22.01.2025
For the 13th edition of the international open air architecture film festival in the courtyard of the Architekturzentrum Wien in…
Talk Show
Wed 04.12.2024
18:00-20:00
Club Architektur #14
Quo vadis, A City of Two Million? How Do We Want to Live and Who Do We Want to Be?
Vienna has two million inhabitants (again), since last year. But what does being a cosmopolitan City Entail?
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Event Series
Wed 27.11.2024
18:00-20:00
Use That Empty Space!
Opportunities for the activation of vacant space in Vienna
A series of three events held at WEST, Alte WU, with one evening dedicated to vacant space in residential buildings,…
Location: WEST. Alte WU, Festsaal
Symposium
Fri 22.11., 15:00–20:00, Az W Podium & Sat 23.11., 09:00–13:00, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Anatomiesaal
Ambivalences of Modernity
The Architect and Urban Planner Roland Rainer Between Dictatorship and Democracy
How did modernist architecture interact with political systems? And how can biographical gaps in architectural archives be explained and filled?…
Lectures & Discussion
Wed 13.11.2024
18:00-20:00
Best of Austria – Best of Europe
Award meets award! An evening presenting the latest edition of the publication 'Best of Austria', drawing attention to the achievements…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Event Series
Fri 08.11.2024
18:00-20:00
Use That Empty Space!
Opportunities for the activation of vacant space in Vienna
A series of three events held at WEST, Alte WU, with one evening dedicated to vacant space in residential buildings,…
Location: WEST. Alte WU, Festsaal
Symposium
Thu 07.11.2024
16:00-20:00
Long Live the City!
Circular building upon the Existing
This news is not new, while it is alarming: Construction releases large amounts of CO2, destroys biodiversity, consumes non-renewable resources…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Closing event „Out of the Box“
Mon 04.11.2024
17:30-19:00
Let’s talk Design
With Veronika Müller, architectural historian, assistant professor, culture of building / cultural heritage at the KU Linz and Harald Gründl,…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Opening of the Collection Depot & Research Center
Thu 31.10.2024
17:00-20:00
Back to the Future
The NEW Az W Collection Depot
Risk a glance inside the belly of our knowledge repository!
Location: Az W Sammlungsdepot & Research Center, Werk Möllersdorf
Event
Sat 26.10.2024
10:00-19:00
Open Door at the Az W
Free admission all day
As guests of the Architekturzentrum Wien Architecture Lounge, on 26 October admission is free for everybody interested in architecture. The…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
Event Series
Wed 23.10.2024
18:00-20:00
Use That Empty Space!
Opportunities for the activation of vacant space in Vienna
A series of three events held at WEST, Alte WU, with one evening dedicated to vacant space in residential buildings,…
Location: WEST. Alte WU, Festsaal
Out of the Box ‒ a discussion series
Wed 16.10.2024
17:30-19:00
Let’s talk Home Ambience
With Eva Badura-Triska, art historian and curator at WAM (Vienna Actionism Museum) and Thomas Fillitz, social and cultural anthropologist, inhabitants…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Event
Sat 05.10.2024
18:00–01:00
ORF The Long Night of Museums
Once again the Az W is participating in the ORF nationwide event for museums, The Long Night of Museums. Night…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
Opening of the exhibition
Wed 02.10.2024
19:00-22:00
Europe's best Buildings
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Mies van der Rohe Awards 2024
The EUMies Awards Prize, endowed with 90,000 euros in prize money (60,000 Main Award / 30,000 Emerging Architecture Award), is…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Out of the Box ‒ a discussion series
Wed 25.09.2024
17:30-18:30
Let’s talk Family
With Maria Auböck-Kárász, Auböck + Kárász Landscape Architects and Carl Auböck IV, Werkstätte Auböck (Carl Auböck III’s children).
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Gallery
Panel discussion
Tue 10.09.2024
18:00-20:00
Building Culture in the National Council of Austria?
A discussion of land protection, conservation and the promotion of building culture
In the run-up to the parliamentary elections, politicians discuss land policy, building stock and building culture with experts. Join the…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Opening of the exhibition & summer fête
Wed 04.09.2024
18:00-22:00
On Stage with Carl Auböck
An exhibition opening „From Tableware to Prefabricated Housing“
Marking the hundredth anniversary of his birth and Az W’s acquisition of his archive, this exhibition offers dual insight –…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
Architektur.Film.Sommer 2024
Wed 21.08.2024
20:30
Traveling. Stories. Perspectives.
Film nights in the Az W courtyard
The final evening sheds light on the construction of dream locations and subjects them to critical scrutiny. Guten Tag Buon…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
Architektur.Film.Sommer 2024
Wed 14.08.2024
20:30
Whose Holiday?
Film nights in the Az W courtyard
What does it mean to travel? And what is it like to work where others have their holidays? Always Blue,…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
Architektur.Film.Sommer 2024
Wed 07.08.2024
20:30
A Surveyed World
Film nights in the Az W courtyard
Supposedly rural and remote areas, whether in mountainous regions or close to the Arctic Circle, are criss-crossed by tourist infrastructure,…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
Architektur.Film.Sommer 2024
Wed 31.07.2024
20:30
Reaching the Tipping Point
Film nights in the Az W courtyard
Is there such a thing as sustainable travel in times of insta-hotspots and climate crisis? Excessive tourism has serious ecological…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
Film festival
Wed 31.07., 07.08., 14.08., 21.08.
from 20:30
Architektur.Film.Sommer 2024
Holidays: All inclusive?
The twelfth annual international open-air architecture film festival presents films on the topic of Travel, Holidays and Tourism in times…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
Workshop (0–99)
Sun 30.06.2024
10:00-17:00
LEGO construction site
On the first Sunday of the school holidays there is space at the Az W for the big LEGO building…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
Presentation & discussion
Thu 27.06.2024
17:00-20:00
Park ’n’ Play
Az W On The Road in aspern Seestadt
The open-air event in Elinor-Ostrom-Park is an invitation for local residents and experts to talk about outdoor spaces for the…
Location: Elinor-Ostrom-Park, aspern Seestadt
Lecture
Tue 18.06.2024
19:00-21:00
Kiesler-Lecture: Junya Ishigami
The Japanese architect Junya Ishigami will be visiting Vienna on the occasion of the 13th Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Symposium
Fr 14.06., 12:30–19:30 & Sa 15.06., 09:00–16:00
Why Have There Been No Great Women Architects?
Feminist Perspectives on Gendered Spaces in Modern Architecture and Art History
There is still a lack of broad visibility despite decades of feminist research, monographs and exhibitions on women architects and…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Talk Show
Wed 12.06.2024
18:00-20:00
Club Architektur #13
Cold Beds, Hot Money — between touristification and emigration
Chalet villages, second homes, holiday homes as an investment: the pressure to exploit rural regions is increasing and promises considerable…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium

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