Collection

Highlights

Immerse yourself in our universe of architects and buildings and learn more about Austrian architectural (hi)stories. This section is continuously updated and serves as a vibrant pool of stories from the Collection.

Immerse yourself in our universe of architects and buildings, and find out more about the narratives of Austrian architecture. This rubric is added to on an ongoing basis as a living pool of narratives from the collection.

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Ottokar Uhl and his Model Church for Korea

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Street scene with horse-drawn carts and houses in the background

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Wilhelm Schütte and the Mauthausen Memorial – 80 Years since its Liberation

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sketch of a building with names of countries written above it

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Architect Ferdinand Kitt and the History of Galerie Würthle

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black/white photograph of the window of the gallery Würthle

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A Surprise Acquisition — an eyewitness report from the 1957 IBA Berlin

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Karteikarte in vergilbten Gelb mit Foto und Noitzen

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Karl Odorizzi. Outside the Box

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black and white picture of a modern church in tent form

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The First Shopping Centre in Austria. On the Occasion of Traude and Wolfgang Windbrechtinger’s Centenary!

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black and white photo of a man and a woman looking at a big plan

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“It’s Tough for Women as Engineers. There’s a Prejudice Against Female Architects”. On the anniversaries of Eva Mang-Frimmel (95) and Karl Mang (100)

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Black and white photo of a woman and a man leaning against a car

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On the 90th Birthday of Hans Puchhammer: “Knowing a great deal and sharing it with others”1)

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black and white photo with man looking to the side

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On the 90th Birthday of Eilfried Huth: The Eschen­siedlung in Deutsch­landsberg

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Sketch with many colorful houses

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Gerhard Garstenauer’s UFO on the Mountain

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Black and white picture of a round station of a chair lift

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Hans Hollein’s CM fashion boutique,
1010 Vienna

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Black and white photograph of an interior with a view through a shop window onto the street.

Skizzen gehen stiften

25 Years of the Az W

shelves filled with books and attached sketches

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Bruta­lism in Vien­na: Johann Pleyer, Obla­tes of St. Paul’s Mo­na­ste­ry, 1130 Vienna

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Farbige Architekturskizze

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Walter Loos and His Summer Retreats

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Two iron chairs with leather covering

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The Disappearance of an Architectural Icon of the 1970s

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Courtyard in housing complex

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The architect’s Handwriting – Johannes Spalt’s Draxler House in Nussdorf am Attersee

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Pencil sketch of living room

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The Social Dimension of Architecture — Anton Schweighofer on his 95th birthday

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Skizze mit der Aufschrift Situation Aufschließung und Grünzonen

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Foreground, Middle Ground, Background — on the 85th birthday of photographer Karin Mack

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s/w Foto von Bauwerk aus Sichtbeton von unten in den Innenraum hinein fotografiert

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“A Spatial Figure for the Arts” — the Museum Sammlung Essl by Heinz Tesar

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White building with inner courtyard and green meadow

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„I’m nobody’s doll!“ Edith Lassmann (1920–2007), pioneering architect

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Plan with top view with inscription

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The End of the Space is the Beginning of Architecture. On the 300th anniversary of the death of Austria’s star baroque architect

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Church with dome and 2 high columns left and right

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Architecture for Peace. The Palace of Nations in Geneva

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Model with trees and water

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There is no Future without History: Friedrich Kurrent at 90

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A man with a striped tie, holding a pad and a green pencil in his mouth

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Hanno Schlögl and Building in the Existing Substance

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Large elongated interior with windows, columns and wooden ceiling

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Shop Frontage by Adolf Loos

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black-white photo with shop entrance from Manz

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The Volkstheater U3 station by Kurt Schlauss

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Sketch of a subway station with a train

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The Florabad by Josef Lackner

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schwarz/weiß-Aufnahme eines Hallenbades mit Treppe und runden Fensteröffnungen in der Decke

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Hermann Czech and the Wiener Staatsoper

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black and white plan of a window

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Helmut Richter’s School on Kinkplatz in 1140 Vienna

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Model of the building

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Wilhelm Holzbauer‘s Perilous Journey to America

Tale from the Collection

Architect Holzbauer on a tree

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The “Goldene Stiege” by Eugen Wörle

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Cross-section

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Günther Domenig’s Entry for the Competition for the Bibliothèque National in Paris, 1989

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Architectural model