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Past Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions

Exhibition
Thu 05.12.2019 – Mon 10.02.2020
Vorarlberg –
An intergenerational Dialogue
SammlungsLab #5
Adventurous clients, innovative architects, liberal planning and building laws, and an open-minded population are behind the high density of interesting…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Gallery
Exhibition
Thu 17.10.2019 – Mon 24.02.2020
Cold War and Architecture
Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945
After the liberation of Austria in spring 1945 and the occupation by the four victorious powers of Great Britain, France,…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
Exhibition
Thu 13.06.2019 – Mon 19.08.2019
daily 10:00-19:00
Hans Hollein unpacked: The Haas-Haus
SammlungsLab #4
Even before and during its construction the Haas-Haus directly opposite St. Stephen's Cathedral caused many a controversy. On the occasion…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Gallery
Collection with a View #5
Wed 22.05.2019 – Sun 16.08.2020
in the Az W courtyard: daily 00:00-24:00
Österreichbild
Showcase to the courtyard
9 Projects from 9 federal provinces: With a small but fine selection of particularly interesting models from the Az W…
Location: In the Az W Courtyard / Exhibition hall 1
Exhibition
Thu 25.04.2019 – Mon 09.09.2019
Täglich 10:00-19:00
Critical Care
Architecture for a Broken Planet
A planet in crisis. The earth in intensive care. Man-made environmental and social catastrophes are threatening to render the planet…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
Exhibition
22.11.2018 – prolonged until 24.03.2019
daily 10:00-19:00
Downtown Denise Scott Brown
Denise Scott Brown is a living legend, an insider tip and an icon. She started a revolt against architectural Modernism…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
Exhibition
Thu 14.03.2019 – Tue 23.04.2019
daily 10:00-19:00
Rural Moves – The Songyang Story
The development of rural space is an urgent global challenge. Best practice examples from China show which strategies the young…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Gallery
Exhibition
Sat 20.10.2018 – prolonged until Mon 07.01.2019
daily 10:00-19:00
Roland Rainer. (Un)Disputed. New Findings on the Work (1936–1963)
SammlungsLab #3
At least since the study commissioned by the City of Vienna of person-related street signs, where Roland-Rainer-Platz is categorised as…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Gallery
Collection with a View #4
Thu 27.09.2018 – Sun 05.05.2019
in the Az W courtyard: daily 00:00-24:00
Happy Birthday Karl Marx!
Showcase to the courtyard
2018 is the year of the 200th birthday of Karl Marx (1819–1893). In the series of international reflections on the…
Location: In the Az W Courtyard / Exhibition hall 1
Exhibition
Thu 23.08.2018 – Mon 22.10.2018
daily 10:00-19:00
Europe's best Buildings
The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Mies van der Rohe Award 2017
What are the best European buildings? Following the years of a boom in museums, for the first time the prizes…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
Exhibition
Thu 12.07.2018 – Mon 06.08.2018
daily 10:00-19:00
Az W Insta-Photo Award: #brutalism_azw
Presentation of the Prize-Winners
The Az W Insta-Photo Award on the occasion of the exhibition “SOS Brutalism – Save the Concrete Monsters!” directed the…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Shop
Exhibition
Thu 28.06.2018 – Mon 06.08.2018
daily 10:00-19:00
Brutally Brilliant
Student exhibition
Brutalism is frequently controversial, and people react strongly to the use of raw concrete. Pupils of the Henriettenplatz BRG ORG…
Location: Annex Ausstellungshalle 2
Collection with a View #3
Thu 14.06.2018 – Wed 26.09.2018
in the Az W courtyard: daily 00:00-24:00 / Exhibition hall 1: daily 10:00-19:00
A Place for Bookworms
Showcase to the courtyard
With well over 55,000 books, the Az W Library is one of the major architecture libraries in the country. With…
Location: In the Az W Courtyard / Exhibition hall 1
Exhibition
Thu 03.05.2018 – Mon 06.08.2018
daily 10:00-19:00
SOS Brutalism
Save the Concrete Monsters!
Love it or hate it, the rediscovered Brutalist architecture leaves nobody cold. The exhibition presents international and outstanding Austrian examples…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
Exhibition
Tue 17.04.2018 – Mon 28.05.2018
Stadt des Kindes: On A Failed Utopia
SammlungsLab #2
In the wake of the 1968 movement there was a shift in Viennese social policy. In the building sector this…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Gallery
Exhibition
Thu 08.03.2018 – Tue 03.04.2018
The Best House. Architecture Prize 2018
The best single- and two-family homes in Austria are being sought for what is already the seventh time. Careful treatment…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Gallery
Exhibition
Thu 23.11.2017 – Wed 04.04.2018
Form follows Rule
When architects design buildings and urban planners imagine urban life they are accompanied by a great many regulations. Who makes…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
Collection with a View #2
Wed 25.10.2017 – Mon 21.05.2018
Margherita Spiluttini
Showcase to the courtyard
With the new format "Schaufenster" we highlight our collection.
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
Exhibition
Thu 19.10.2017 – Mon 08.01.2018
The Terrassenhaus. A Viennese Fetish?
SammlungsLab #1
The Terrassenhaus is more topical today than ever. The first SammlungsLab at the Architekturzentrum Wien places this urban housing concept…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Gallery
Exhibition
Sat 07.10.2017 – Sun 15.10.2017
Actopolis
The Art of Action
A state of crisis has, in the meantime, become a permanent state for many European towns and cities. The long-running…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
urbanize! The International Festival for Urban Research
Sat 07.10.2017 – Sun 15.10.2017
DEMOCRACitY
Democracy and Urban Space
What does democracy look like? In 2017 the 'urbanize!' festival investigates the city as a place of democratic renewal, with…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
Public workspace
Wed 21.06.2017 – Mon 31.07.2017
Care + Repair
A public workspace of the Architekturzentrum Wien in the framework of the Vienna Biennale 2017
How can we repair the future? And how can architecture and urbanism take care of this? To test a Care…
Location: Nordbahn-Halle
Exhibition
Thu 01.06.2017 – Mon 11.09.2017
Assemble
How we build
How we build, how things are made, how materials are put together, these things reveal the state of a society.…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
Exhibition
Mon 15.05.2017 – Sun 15.10.2017
Oswald Haerdtl
Collection with a View #1
Using the new concept of a display window facing onto the courtyard, the Az W directs attention to its unique…
Collection with a view #1
Mon 15.05.2017 – Sun 08.10.2017
Oswald Haerdtl
Showcase to the courtyard
By introducing the new idea of a showcase to the courtyard the Az W directs attention to its unique collection.
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
Exhibition
Fri 10.03.2017 – Mon 20.03.2017
SHIFT IN PERCEPTION — How Knowledge Changes Seeing
Exhibition project by school pupils and apprentices
Speakers: Karoline Mayer, curator of the exhibition Athanasia Siegl, teacher Anne Wübben, head of Education, Az W School pupils and…
Exhibition
Thu 10.11.2016 – Mon 09.01.2017
Vienna’s unknown Jewel
A Photographic Journey through the 1970s
Altered Opening Hours: The exhibition remains closed due to the 20th Vienna Architecture Congress on following dates: Thu 17.11. and…
Exhibition
Thu 06.10.2016 – Mon 20.03.2017
In the End: Architecture
Journeys through Time 1959 – 2019
Opening speakers Dietmar Steiner, Director Az WKaroline Mayer, Sonja Pisarik, Katharina Ritter, CuratorsAndreas Mailath-Pokorny, Executive Councillor for Culture and Science,…
Exhibition
Wed 14.09.2016 – Sun 18.09.2016
Guest at the Az W "Best Practice - Successful Housing Renovation in Vienna"
An exhibition by wohnfonds_wien
Subsidized housing renovation as well as the unique principle of gentle urban renewal significantly contribute to the high quality of…
Exhibition
Sat 16.07.2016 – Wed 26.10.2016
Az W in LIENZ: ARCHITEKT RAIMUND ABRAHAM. "BACK HOME"
The architecture of Raimund Abraham (1933 - 2010) has always been dominated by the elemental and archaic, and reduced to…
Exhibition
Thu 09.06.2016 – Mon 29.08.2016
Europe's Best Buildings. The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
Mies van der Rohe Award 2015
Speakers: Dietmar Steiner, Director Az WAnna Ramos, director Fundació Mies van der RoheIvan Blasi, coordinator + curator Fundació Mies van…
Exhibition
Thu 05.05.2016 – Tue 17.05.2016
PORTRAITS OF THE CITY — an exhibition project by pupils and refugees
The Az W is launching two projects to accompany the exhibition 'Zoom! Picturing Architecture and the City' in collaboration with…
Exhibition
Wed 20.04.2016 – Sun 24.04.2016
At the Az W: multigenerational housing in the Viennese districts Donaustadt and Liesing
For many decades Vienna has supported social housing that really meets the requirements of society and needs of inhabitants. It…
Exhibition
Thu 31.03.2016 – Sun 05.06.2016
Az W in WROCLAW: The Path to Modernism. Werkbund Housing Estates 1927–1932
An exhibition in the framework of the 2016 European capital of culture, Wroclaw
Event location: Architecture Museum Wroclaw (Poland)Exhibition: 31 March 2016 – 5 June 2016Opening hours: Tue, Fri, Sat, Sun 11am-5pm, Wed…
Exhibition
Thu 10.03.2016 – Tue 17.05.2016
Zoom! Picturing Architecture and the City
An exhibition by the Architekturmuseum der TU München (Pinakothek der Moderne)
An exhibition by the Architekturmuseum der TU Munich Opening Welcome adress: Dietmar Steiner, Director Az WHilde Strobl, Curator, Architekturmuseum TU…
Exhibition
Wed 24.02.2016 – Tue 01.03.2016
Az W in MUNICH: BUS:STOP Krumbach
An exhibition by the association kultur krumbach in cooperation with vai Vorarlberger Architektur Institut In the course of the present…
Exhibition
Sat 23.01.2016 – Thu 03.03.2016
Az W in BERLIN: One Room for Five
Twenty Architectural Years
In 1995 architects Dieter Henke, Marta Schreieck, Rüdiger Lainer, Walter Stelzhammer and Albert Wimmer presented their approach to architecture in…
Exhibition
Thu 14.01.2016 – Tue 16.02.2016
Az W in LUGANO: BUS:STOP Krumbach
An exhibition by the association kultur krumbach in cooperation with vai Vorarlberger Architektur InstitutIn the course of the present year…
Exhibition
Thu 14.01.2016 – Mon 01.02.2016
kulturhauptstadt2024.at
1000 arguments for and against the Capital of Culture project
In 2024 Austria is to provide a European Capital of Culture for the third time. After Graz2003 and Linz09, a…
Exhibition
Fri 27.11.2015 – Sun 17.01.2016
Az W in BRNO: Hands-On Urbanism
1850-2012. The Right to Green
The show is dedicated to the history of the idea of appropriating land in urban space. Since the shockwave of…
Exhibition
Thu 05.11.2015 – Mon 30.11.2015
Holidays after the Fall
Transformations of socialist holiday architecture on the Croatian Adriatic
Exhibition transfer from Haus der Architektur Graz (2012), curated by Michael Zinganel Speakers: Dietmar Steiner, Director of the Az WMichael…
Exhibition
Fri 23.10.2015 – Mon 26.10.2015
At the Az W: multigenerational housing in the Viennese districts Donaustadt and Liesing
For many decades Vienna has supported social housing that really meets the requirements of society and needs of inhabitants. It…
Exhibition
Thu 22.10.2015 – Mon 30.11.2015
Max Fabiani. Architect of the Monarchy
On 1 May 1865 Emperor Franz Joseph officially opened the Ringstraße in Vienna. In 2015 Vienna is celebrating this boulevard’s…
Exhibition
Thu 10.09.2015 – Fri 30.10.2015
Az W in CARINTHIA: outstanding artist award – experimental tendencies in architecture 2014
Since 1988 the most important prize for innovative architecture in Austria has been awarded every two years by the Austrian…
Exhibition
Thu 03.09.2015 – Mon 12.10.2015
One Room for Five
Twenty Architectural Years
In 1995 architects Dieter Henke, Marta Schreieck, Rüdiger Lainer, Walter Stelzhammer and Albert Wimmer presented their approach to architecture in…
Exhibition
Fri 03.07.2015 – Mon 17.08.2015
Architecture as Propaganda
Opening of the exhibition: Monika Platzer, curator Az W Barbara Brandl, teacher BG & BRG Boerhaavegasse Anne Wübben, education Az…
Exhibition
Fri 12.06.2015 – Mon 24.08.2015
Exhibition: aspern INTERNATIONAL
Ideas for Change: an international view
A cooperation by the Architekturzentrum Wien with Wien 3420 Aspern Development AG in the framework of Vienna Biennale 2015: Ideas…
Exhibition
Fri 22.05.2015 – Thu 04.06.2015
Az W in ZAGREB: BUS:STOP Krumbach
An exhibition by the association kultur krumbach in cooperation with vai Vorarlberger Architektur InstitutIn the course of the year 2014…
Exhibition
Thu 30.04.2015 – Tue 26.05.2015
Exhibition: The Best House. Architecture Prize 2015
Presentation of the prize-winners
The search for Austria’s best houses is being made this year for the sixth time. The prize for “The Best…
Exhibition
Thu 16.04.2015 – Sun 17.05.2015
Az W in TALLINN: BUS:STOP Krumbach
An exhibition by the association kultur krumbach in cooperation with vai Vorarlberger Architektur InstitutIn the course of the year 2014…

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