A Discovery! Helmut Gatterer’s Apartment
The Az W has been collecting the estates and bequests of relevant Austrian architects in order to preserve and process…
Location: Ghelengasse 34
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Excursion
Booked up Fri 12.12.2025
15:00-16:00
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Excursion
Booked up Fri 12.12.2025
14:00-15:00A Discovery! Helmut Gatterer’s Apartment
The Az W has been collecting the estates and bequests of relevant Austrian architects in order to preserve and process…Location: Ghelengasse 34 -
Exhibition tour Tue 09.12.2025
17:30-18:30Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo
What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? The exhibition “Abundance Not Capital” presents the work of Anupama Kundoo…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Workshop (6–99)
Booked up Sat 06.12.2025
15:00-17:00Gingerbread Town
Archikids
Today things are going to get sweet, yummy smelling and brightly coloured at the Az W. Concrete and bricks are…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Lecture & Discussion Thu 04.12.2025
18:00-20:00reBuilding and reThinking the ‘Built Fabric’
Advocating for New Common Good(s)
The 11th Forum on Architectural Science is dedicated to the highly topical issue of transforming existing structures, and opens with…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Guided tour by the curators Tue 02.12.2025
17:30-18:30Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo
What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? The exhibition “Abundance Not Capital” presents the work of Anupama Kundoo…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Guided tour in dialogue Tue 25.11.2025
17:30-18:30Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo
With Studio Kollision, association for the promotion of transdisciplinary networks
The focus at Studio Kollision is on reuse and an awareness of materials. In the form of ‘gwand circle’, village…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Exhibition tour Tue 18.11.2025
17:30-18:30Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo
What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? The exhibition “Abundance Not Capital” presents the work of Anupama Kundoo…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Exhibition tour Fri 14.11.2025
17:00-18:00Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo
In Austrian sign language
What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? The exhibition “Abundance Not Capital” presents the work of Anupama Kundoo…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Workshop (6–99)
Booked up Sat 08.11.2025
15:00-17:00Static Phenomena Using LEGO and Rods
Archikids
Sometimes it makes sense to turn things upside down to determine the distribution of forces. Tensegrity models also appear to…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Lecture, discussion & guided tour Fri 07.11.2025
16:00-20:00Anupama 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
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Excursion
Booked up Fri 07.11.2025
14:00-17:00Studio Visits
As part of Vienna Art Week
asphalt kollektiv and 3:0 Landschaftsarchitektur: As part of Vienna Art Week, the Architekturzentrum Wien is visiting two studios that work…Location: Vivariumstraße 13
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iC goes Az W Thu 06.11.2025
17:00-19:30Sustainable 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
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Guided tour in dialogue Tue 28.10.2025
17:30-18:30Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo
With Barbara Prainsack, political scientist, University of Vienna
"It is time to expand the concept of work", says Barbara Prainsack, who regards an unconditional basic income as an…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Event Sun 26.10.2025
10:00-19:00Open 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
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Talk Show Wed 22.10.2025
18:00-20:00Club 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
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Excursion Fri 17.10.2025
15:00-17:00A Chicken Coop Instead of a Gourmet Temple
VinziRast am Land is a project not far from Vienna where a former hotel and restaurant have been redesigned to…Location: VinziRast am Land
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Lecture & Discussion Wed 15.10.2025
19:00-20:00Planning: 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
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Guided tour by the curators Tue 14.10.2025
17:30-18:30Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo
What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? The exhibition “Abundance Not Capital” presents the work of Anupama Kundoo…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Archikids Workshop (6–99) Sat 11.10.2025
15:00-17:00Why is separating waste important
… and what does it have to do with architecture?
Most people are familiar with those moments of not knowing which bin to put their rubbish in: where do receipts…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Exhibition tour Tue 07.10.2025
17:30-18:30Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo
What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? The exhibition “Abundance Not Capital” presents the work of Anupama Kundoo…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Event Sat 04.10.2025
18:00-00:00ORF 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
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Exhibition tour Tue 30.09.2025
17:30-18:30Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo
What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? The exhibition “Abundance Not Capital” presents the work of Anupama Kundoo…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Lecture & Response Wed 24.09.2025
18:00-20:00The 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
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Guided tour by the curators Tue 23.09.2025
17:30-18:30Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo
What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? The exhibition “Abundance Not Capital” presents the work of Anupama Kundoo…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Excursion
Booked up Fri 19.09.2025
15:00-18:00The Important Little Things
Small-Scale Architecture and Urban Fixtures
What kind of architecture is typical for Vienna? St. Stephen's Cathedral, Karl-Marx Hof and DC Tower, or those elements scattered…Location: Favoritenstraße 118
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Opening of the exhibition Wed 17.09.2025
19:00-22:00Abundance 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
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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
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Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025 Wed 20.08.2025
20:30Get 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
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Workshop (7–12)
Booked up Mon 18.08.2025 – Fri 22.08.2025
08:00–17:00Oases in the City
Sommerakademie
Plants, trees and green spaces in the city are enormously important to us for recreation, cooling and for protection from…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
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Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025 Wed 13.08.2025
20:30From 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
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Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025 Wed 06.08.2025
20:30Peak 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
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Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025 Wed 30.07.2025
20:30American 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
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Filmfestival Wed 30.07., 06.08., 13.08., 20.08.
from 20:30Architektur.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 (6–10) Wed 02.07.2025
at 10:00 or at 13:00LEGO städtchen drumherum
Sommerferienspiel
We visit the suburbs in the exhibition 'Suburbia. Living the American Dream'. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Exhibition guided tour Tue 01.07.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
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 - Exhibition hall 2
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Workshop (6–10) Tue 01.07.2025
at 10:00 or at 13:00LEGO städtchen drumherum
Sommerferienspiel
We visit the suburbs in the exhibition 'Suburbia. Living the American Dream'. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium -
Workshop (6–10) Mon 30.06.2025
at 10:00 or at 13:00LEGO städtchen drumherum
Sommerferienspiel
We visit the suburbs in the exhibition 'Suburbia. Living the American Dream'. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium -
Workshop (0–99) Sun 29.06.2025
11:00-17:00LEGO 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
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Excursion
Booked up Fri 27.06.2025
15:00-17:00Intermissions in Heaven
In order to meet today's safety requirements and technical standards, the auditorium and stage house of the Theater an der…Location: Theater an der Wien
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Lecture & Discussion Wed 25.06.2025
18:00-20:00House 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
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Guided tour in dialogue Tue 24.06.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia. Living the American Dream
With Barbara Perfahl, housing and architectural psychologist, Linz
Are People Really Happier Living in a House?Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Presentation & Discussion Wed 18.06.2025
18:00-20:00Kharkiv – 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
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Lecture & Response Wed 11.06.2025
18:00-20:00Built 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
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Exhibition guided tour Tue 03.06.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
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 - Exhibition hall 2 -
Guided tour in dialogue Tue 27.05.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia. Living the American Dream
With Andreas Novy, Socio-Economist at the Vienna University of Economics and Business
There's Enough Living Space — It's Just Badly Distributed.Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Excursion Fri 23.05.2025
15:00-18:00A Place to Harvest the Sun
A new urban quarter with an educational campus, apartments and an intergenerational centre was built along the Westbahn in 2022,…Location: Deutschordenstraße 4
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Excursion
Booked up Fri 16.05.2025
15:00-18:00Living in the Vienna Woods Clearing
The Other Suburbia: The Doktorberg housing estate by Carl Auböck and Harry Glück was already celebrated by the press when…Location: Doktorberg
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Lecture & Panel discussion Wed 14.05.2025
18:00-20:00Living 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
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Workshop (9–99) Sa 10.05., 12:00 & 15:00
Static Phenomena
Archikids
Sometimes it makes sense to turn things upside down. For example, Antoni Gaudí develops complex structures with the aid of…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Exhibition guided tour Tue 06.05.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
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 - Exhibition hall 2 -
Event Thu 01.05.2025
10:00-19:00Open 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
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Excursion
Booked up Fri 25.04.2025
15:00-17:00The Housing Complex as Path and Place
Spatial diversity, experiential space and intimacy with large-scale construction projects and high density requirements are something of a speciality of…Location: Breitenfurter Straße 233
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Talk Show Wed 23.04.2025
18:00-20:00Club 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
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Guided tour in dialogue Tue 22.04.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia. Living the American Dream
With Bernadette Redl, Journalist, Der Standard
Bernadette Redl, who has conducted extensive research and published widely on the subject of single-family houses appreciates that, "for many…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Vienna Elections 2025 Wed 09.04.2025
18:00-20:00Developing 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
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Exhibition guided tour Tue 08.04.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
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 - Exhibition hall 2 -
Award ceremony, lecture and discussion Tue 01.04.2025
18:00-20:00At 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
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Presentation & Discussion Wed 26.03.2025
18:00-20:00When 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
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Exhibition guided tour Tue 25.03.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
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 - Exhibition hall 2 -
Excursion
Booked up Fri 21.03.2025
15:00-18:00Sargfabrik Atzgersdorf new
The City of Vienna has developed a new, dense urban quarter with cooperatives and a private real estate company on…Location: Breitenfurter Straße 176
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Guided tour in dialogue
Booked up Tue 18.03.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia. Living the American Dream
With Lena Schartmüller, Barbara Steinbrunner; Institut für Raumplanung, TU Wien
In Austria, people's dream home is still a freshly built, free-standing house for the family. This idea persists even though…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2