Programme: Past Events

Balkrishna Doshi

Tue 21.04.2020
17:30-18:30

Guided tour in dialogue CANCELLED

Workshop (6–10) CANCELLED

Osterferienspiel

The Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi engages, among other things, with buildings that can adapt to the needs of their occupants.…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

colourful houses with turquoise elements

Growing Houses

Mon 06.04.2020
10:00-12:00 or 13:00-15:00

Workshop (6–10) CANCELLED

Osterferienspiel

The Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi engages, among other things, with buildings that can adapt to the needs of their occupants.…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

Verena von Beckerath

Mon 30.03.2020
19:00-21:30

Lecture & Response POSTPONED UNTIL 07.10.

IBA_Wien meets Architects #9

The life cycle of architecture and the city, the subsequent use and extension of buildings but above all the continued…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

black white photo with woman who puts hand on the cheek

Balkrishna Doshi

Sat 28.03.2020
17:30-18:30

Guided tour with the curator CANCELLED

Architecture for the People

The Indian architect, urbanist and teacher Balkrishna Doshi is among the key proponents of an Indian modernity although he has…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Balkrishna Doshi cancelled!

Wed 25.03.2020
19:00-22:00

Opening CANCELLED

Architecture for the People

The Indian architect, urbanist and teacher Balkrishna Doshi is among the key proponents of an Indian modernity although he has…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

people in india with pots on their heads

Archikids: Green instead of Grey cancelled!

Sat 14.03.2020
15:00-17:00

Workshop CANCELLED

Façades with greenery can change with fascinating rapidity, and since last summer at the latest, they are a hot topic:…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

Environmental Issues in the Cityscape cancelled!

Fri 13.03.2020
14:00-17:00

Excursion CANCELLED

In autumn 2019 the Az W launched a series with a focus on current educational buildings. This time the excursion leads…

wooden building with lights in the groundfloor and trees in the foreground

Zukunft Stadt Positionen cancelled!

Wed 11.03.2020
19:00-21:30

EVENT CANCELLED

The Affordable City — the political dimension

To all those who have already been looking forward to an exciting evening with good discussions about the future of…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

façade of apartment housing with triangular balconys

Excursion

Fri 28.02.2020
14:15-17:15

The Revitalisation of a Historic Building

Once part of the fortifications and the bottleneck of urban supply lines, the Kasematten is a part of Wiener Neustadt's…

2 persons on q square with small tree and wall on the right

Lecture and Discussion

Wed 19.02.2020
19:00-21:30

Who does Yugoslavian Modernism Belong to?

The Bogdan Bogdanović Example

Yugoslavian Modernism has received increasing international attention in recent years. This includes the special work of the architect, writer and…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

black white photo with 3 women in a library

Guided tour with the curator

Wed 19.02.2020
17:30-18:30

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

For the first time in an exhibition, the post-war building activities in Austria and those involved are contextualized in the…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Workshop (6–99)

Sat 15.02.2020
15:00-17:00

Archikids: Vorarlberger Baukunst

What is so special about the projects in Vorarlberg? And, would you like to go to a school with mostly…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

Child paints a black wall with a door opening and a window opening

Lecture and Film Screening

Wed 12.02.2020
19:00-21:30

‘Besetzte Bilder’

Filmic Reflections on the Period of Occupation

For more than 10 years the four Allied powers were in control of Austria, with the politics of the cinema…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

Guided tour of the exhibition

Wed 12.02.2020
17:30-18:30

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

For the first time in an exhibition, the post-war building activities in Austria and those involved are contextualized in the…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Workshop (6–10)

Tue 04.02.2020
10:00-12:00 or 13:00-15:00

LEGO City Planners

Semesterferienspiel

What does a city consist of and how do you move through it? What do we have to pay particular…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

Workshop (6–10) Booked up!

Mon 03.02.2020
10:00-12:00 or 13:00-15:00

LEGO City Planners

Semesterferienspiel

What does a city consist of and how do you move through it? What do we have to pay particular…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

Guided tour of the exhibition

Sat 01.02.2020
17:30-18:30

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

Guided tour with the curator

Wed 29.01.2020
17:30-18:30

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

For the first time in an exhibition, the post-war building activities in Austria and those involved are contextualized in the…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Guided tour in dialogue Booked up!

Tue 28.01.2020
17:30-18:30

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

Michael Hieslmair and Michael Zinganel from the research platform tracing spaces developed the exhibition architecture for "Cold War and Architecture".…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Symposium

Fri 24.01.2020 & Sat 25.01.2020
Fri 18:00 & Sat 10:00–17:00

Cold Transfer. Architecture, Politics, Culture

Germany — Austria — Switzerland after 1945

This symposium makes a contribution to a European History of Architecture — a history of transfer, but also of convergences…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

black white photograph of the Atomium in Brussels

Guided tour of the exhibition

Wed 22.01.2020
17:30-18:30

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

Guided tour by the curators

Wed 15.01.2020
17:30-18:30

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

Guided tour in dialogue Booked up!

Tue 14.01.2020
17:30-18:30

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

Michael Hieslmair and Michael Zinganel from the research platform tracing spaces developed the exhibition architecture for "Cold War and Architecture".…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Guided tour of the exhibition

Sat 11.01.2020
17:30-18:30

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

For the first time in an exhibition, the post-war building activities in Austria and those involved are contextualized in the…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Workshop (6–10)

Fri 03.01.2020
10:00-12:00 or 13:00-15:00

Vorarlberg in LEGO

Winterferienspiel

Resource-conserving construction was an issue very early on in Vorarlberg. So, the countryside is characterised by wooden houses in a…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien

Section of a window with a view into the illuminated interior with a table and benches. Next to it there is an older wooden house.

Workshop (6–10)

Thu 02.01.2020
10:00-12:00 or 13:00-15:00

Vorarlberg in LEGO

Winterferienspiel

Resource-conserving construction was an issue very early on in Vorarlberg. So, the countryside is characterised by wooden houses in a…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien

Submission

Fri 20.12.2019 – Fri 28.02.2020

Call for Films:
Architektur.Film.Sommer 2020

Deadline 28 February 2020

For the eight edition of the international Open Air Architecture Film Festival in the courtyard of the Architekturzentrum Wien we…

Guided tour of the exhibition

Wed 18.12.2019
17:30-18:30

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

Guided tour by the curators

Wed 11.12.2019
17:30-18:30

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

Workshop (6–99) Booked up!

Sat 07.12.2019
15:00-17:00

Archikids: Vorarlberg is Building

Resource-efficient building was a very early issue in Vorarlberg. Accordingly, the countryside is marked by timber houses in a mix…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien

a house with shingle façade on the one hand and glass façade on the other hand

Guided tour of the exhibition

Sat 07.12.2019
15:00-16:00

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

For the first time in an exhibition, the post-war building activities in Austria and those involved are contextualized in the…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Opening & Discussion

Wed 04.12.2019
19:00-22:00

Vorarlberg – A Phenomen?

as part of the exhibition „Vorarlberg – An intergenerational Dialogue“

In 2000, the lifestyle magazine Wallpaper described Vorarlberg as "the most progressive part of the planet when it comes to…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

Multi-storey house with saddle roof on a meadow with trees

Guided tour with the curator

Wed 04.12.2019
17:30-18:30

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

For the first time in an exhibition, the post-war building activities in Austria and those involved are contextualized in the…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Guided tour in dialogue

Tue 03.12.2019
17:30-19:00

Kalter Krieg und Architektur

with Peter Rath, co-owner and designer, Lobmeyr glass and chandelier manufacturers, Vienna

Peter Rath, co-owner and designer, Lobmeyr glass and chandelier manufacturers, Vienna

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Advent guided tour

Mon 02.12.2019
17:00-21:30

All the Best. A Walk 2019

Stop & Go through the 7th district

We will revive the period of occupation, the Iron Curtain and the Secret Agents and the transition of Austria from…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Excursion

Fri 29.11.2019
15:00-18:00

Dialogue on the Wienfluss

With an age difference of 64 years, the former City of Vienna customhouse and the Wörle-Schwanzer Tract have co-existed as…

Interior with shaft and galleries made of concrete and glass

Event

Wed 27.11.2019
19:00-21:00

the way we live

Film screening and discussion

'The way we live' collective living experiment is now followed by the premiere of the documentary of the same title.…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

Lecture and conversation

Mon 25.11.2019
19:00-21:00

Age of Platform Urbanism

Opening event for Platform Austria – Venice Architecture Biennale 2020

Whether for urban life or urban infrastructure, platforms have become a dominant force in recent years.

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

Excursion Booked up!

Sat 23.11.2019
12:00-13:30

Villa Rezek in Vienna by Hans Glas (1932-33)

Modern Architecture Discovered

Completed in the same period and context as Villa Beer and Villa Tugendhat, the house and its garden corkscrews upwards…

Excursion Booked up!

Fri 22.11.2019
14:00-17:30

Az W on Location: Studio Visits

For the Vienna Art Week this year, we again look behind the scenes and find out more about working life…

a group of people in an ivy-covered courtyard.

Event

Thu 21.11.2019

Az W Student Day

in cooperation with the fachschaft:architektur

On this day all students have free admission to the exhibitions of the Architekturzentrum Wien. Exhibition 17.10.2019–24.02.2020 Cold War and…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien

Talk Show

Wed 20.11.2019
19:00-21:00

Club Architektur: Architecture – Competing Ideologies?

As part of the exhibition "Cold War and Architecture"

What are the hallmarks of conservative, liberal or left-wing architecture? The Architecture Club traces the historical and the current role…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

Guided tour with the curator

Wed 20.11.2019
17:30-18:30

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

For the first time in an exhibition, the post-war building activities in Austria and those involved are contextualized in the…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Lecture with response

Wed 13.11.2019
19:00-21:00

51N4E

IBA_Vienna meets Architects #8

With 51N4E, the series IBA_Vienna meets Architects brings one of the most successful Belgian architecture offices to the Architekturzentrum Wien.

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

Guided tour of the exhibition

Wed 13.11.2019
17:30-18:30

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

For the first time in an exhibition, the post-war building activities in Austria and those involved are contextualized in the…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Workshop (6–99) Booked up!

Sat 09.11.2019
15:00-17:00

Archikids: Race to the Moon

Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the moon. Would you like to visit…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien

Man dressed in white and technical equipment

Guided tour in dialogue

Tue 05.11.2019
17:30-19:00

Cold War and Architecture

with Veronika Floch, art historian

Veronika Floch, art historian, researches Austrian cultural institutions in a context of the discourse on Westernization and US American cultural…

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien – Exhibition hall 2

Coloured drawing of a building with the shape of a Greek temple with national flags

Upcoming Events

Guided tour in dialogue CANCELLED

Architecture for the People

Workshop (6–99) CANCELLED

Excursion CANCELLED

Workshop (6–10) CANCELLED

Osterferienspiel

Workshop (6–10) CANCELLED

Osterferienspiel

Lecture & Response POSTPONED UNTIL 07.10.

IBA_Wien meets Architects #9

Guided tour with the curator CANCELLED

Architecture for the People

Opening CANCELLED

Architecture for the People

Workshop CANCELLED

Excursion CANCELLED

EVENT CANCELLED

The Affordable City — the political dimension

The Revitalisation of a Historic Building

Who does Yugoslavian Modernism Belong to?

The Bogdan Bogdanović Example

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

Archikids: Vorarlberger Baukunst

‘Besetzte Bilder’

Filmic Reflections on the Period of Occupation

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

LEGO City Planners

Semesterferienspiel

LEGO City Planners

Semesterferienspiel

Vorarlberg – An intergenerational Dialogue

SammlungsLab #5

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

Cold Transfer. Architecture, Politics, Culture

Germany — Austria — Switzerland after 1945

Vorarlberg – An intergenerational Dialogue

SammlungsLab #5

Vorarlberg – An intergenerational Dialogue

SammlungsLab #5

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

Vorarlberg in LEGO

Winterferienspiel

Vorarlberg in LEGO

Winterferienspiel

Call for Films:Archi­tek­tur.­Film.­Som­mer 2020

Deadline 28 February 2020

Vorarlberg – An intergenerational Dialogue

SammlungsLab #5

Vorarlberg – An intergenerational Dialogue

SammlungsLab #5

Archikids: Vorarlberg is Building

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

Vorarlberg – A Phenomen?

as part of the exhibition „Vorarlberg – An intergenerational Dialogue“

Cold War and Architecture

Contributions to Austria’s Democratization after 1945

Kalter Krieg und Architektur

with Peter Rath, co-owner and designer, Lobmeyr glass and chandelier manufacturers, Vienna

All the Best. A Walk 2019

Stop & Go through the 7th district

Dialogue on the Wienfluss

the way we live

Film screening and discussion

Age of Platform Urbanism

Opening event for Platform Austria – Venice Architecture Biennale 2020

Villa Rezek in Vienna by Hans Glas (1932-33)

Modern Architecture Discovered

Az W on Location: Studio Visits

Az W Student Day

in cooperation with the fachschaft:architektur

Vorarlberg –
An intergenerational Dialogue

Vorarlberg –
An intergenerational Dialogue

Vorarlberg –
An intergenerational Dialogue

Call for Films:
Architektur.Film.Sommer 2020

Vorarlberg –
An intergenerational Dialogue

Vorarlberg –
An intergenerational Dialogue