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Past Events

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
Workshop (7–12) Booked up
Mon 18.08.2025 – Fri 22.08.2025
08:00–17:00
Oases 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
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
Guided tour by the curators
Tue 05.08.2025
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
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
Guided tour by the curators Booked up
Tue 29.07.2025
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
Workshop (6–10)
Wed 02.07.2025
at 10:00 or at 13:00
LEGO 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
Exhibition guided tour
Tue 01.07.2025
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
Workshop (6–10)
Tue 01.07.2025
at 10:00 or at 13:00
LEGO 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 13:00
LEGO 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
11:00-17:00
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
Excursion Booked up
Fri 27.06.2025
15:00-17:00
Intermissions 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
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
Guided tour in dialogue
Tue 24.06.2025
17:30-18:30
Suburbia. 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
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
Guided tour by the curators
Tue 17.06.2025
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
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
Exhibition guided tour
Tue 03.06.2025
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
Guided tour in dialogue
Tue 27.05.2025
17:30-18:30
Suburbia. 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
Excursion
Fri 23.05.2025
15:00-18:00
A 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
Excursion Booked up
Fri 16.05.2025
15:00-18:00
Living 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
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
Guided tour by the curators
Tue 13.05.2025
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
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
Exhibition guided tour
Tue 06.05.2025
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
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
Guided tour by the curators Booked up
Tue 29.04.2025
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
Excursion Booked up
Fri 25.04.2025
15:00-17:00
The 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
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
Guided tour in dialogue
Tue 22.04.2025
17:30-18:30
Suburbia. 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
Workshop (6–99) Booked up
Sat 12.04.2025
15:00-17:00
LEGOhouse for the Simpsons
Archikids
The Simpsons live in a single-family house on a greenfield site in a typical American suburb. Is it really that…
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
Exhibition guided tour
Tue 08.04.2025
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
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
Exhibition guided tour
Tue 25.03.2025
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
Excursion Booked up
Fri 21.03.2025
15:00-18:00
Sargfabrik 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
Guided tour in dialogue Booked up
Tue 18.03.2025
17:30-18:30
Suburbia. 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
Workshop (6–99)
Sat 15.03.2025
15:00-17:00
LEGOhouse for the Simpsons
Archikids
The Simpsons live in a single-family house on a greenfield site in a typical American suburb. Is it really that…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Guided tour by the curators Booked up
Tue 11.03.2025
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
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
Workshop (6–12) Booked up
Sat 08.02.2025
10:00–12:00 oder 13:00–15:00
Dream Holidays Built of LEGO
Semesterferienspiel
More and more people are traveling more often, further and for shorter stays. But it is the journey to and…
Location: Kulturgarage
Workshop (6–12) Booked up
Fri 07.02.2025
10:00–12:00 oder 13:00–15:00
Dream Holidays Built of LEGO
Semesterferienspiel
More and more people are traveling more often, further and for shorter stays. But it is the journey to and…
Location: Kulturgarage
Guided tour
Tue 14.01.2025
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
Workshop (6–12) Booked up
Fri 03.01.2025
10:00–12:00 oder 13:00–15:00
Let’s Build Europe’s Best LEGO Buildings
Winterferienspiel
There are many different uses and forms to be found in the exhibition ‘Europe’s best Buildings’, including a mystical garden…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Workshop (6–12) Booked up
Thu 02.01.2025
10:00–12:00 oder 13:00–15:00
Let’s Build Europe’s Best LEGO Buildings
Winterferienspiel
There are many different uses and forms to be found in the exhibition ‘Europe’s best Buildings’, including a mystical garden…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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
Guided tour
Tue 03.12.2024
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
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?…
Workshop (6–99) Booked up
Sat 16.11.2024
15:00-17:00
Archikids: Let's Build Europe's Best LEGO Buildings
There are many different uses and forms to be found in the exhibition 'Europe's best Buildings', including a mystical garden…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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
Collection for All
Mon 11.11.2024
17:30-18:30
Hot Questions – Cold Storage
Guided tour of the permanent exhibition, for blind and visually impaired people
A guided tour of the permanent collection, for the blind and the visually impaired. Feeling models and various surfaces with…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 1
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
Excursion Booked up
Fri 08.11.2024
15:00-17:30
Studio Visits
As part of the Vienna Art Week
A visit to two architecture firms that take the liberty, in different ways, of defining their profession and working methods…
Location: Rüdigergasse 8
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
Guided tour
Tue 05.11.2024
17:30-18:30
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 - Exhibition hall 2
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
Excursion Booked up
Fri 04.10.2024
15:00-17:00
A New Urban Approach
The Vorgartenstrasse neighbourhood by Carl Auböck, and others
Carl Auböck (1924-1993) was one of the innovators of Austrian architecture after 1945. Building on Roland Rainer's urban development concept…
Location: Jungstraße 6 / Ecke Schönngasse
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

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