Adventure City
The functions of a city
The Architekturzentrum Wien is converted into a mini-city in which we ourselves become architects, town planners, builders of bridges or roads. At the same time…
Testing with your own body
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Bridges shape the face of our landscapes and cities. Arched bridges, chain bridges, suspension bridges, monkey bridges, cable-stayed bridges or body bridges – in the Architekturzentrum Wien you can learn more about the history of this important engineering structure. In the framework of the workshop we take a playful look at different kinds of bridge structures. Compression and tension forces are explained with the help of structural exercises. Afterwards we build either a model or a bridge in 1:1 scale, the load-bearing capacity of which we also test immediately.
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Bridging the Gap
Constructing, building and testing
Bridges shape the face of our landscapes and cities. Arched bridges, chain bridges, suspension bridges, monkey bridges, cable-stayed bridges or body bridges – in the…
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Workshop
Building in space
Space stations and distant planets
Haven’t you always wanted to move to an alien planet, or at least to the moon – and to feel the endlessness of space at…
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Workshop
Building with clay
Loam – clay – earth
Clay has long been one of humankind’s most important building materials. People built with clay 9000 years ago. What are the constituents of clay and,…
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Workshop
Floating houses
Living on the water
Have you ever thought about living on the water? About moving ‒ always by water ‒ from city to city, along with your entire home?…
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Bookable Workshop
Hot Questions
Finding Answers
What can architecture contribute in a context of the climate crisis? How do we want to live in the future? And, what is the impact…
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Excursion for children and young people
Housing – social and individual
From Stuwerviertel to Nordbahnhof
In the 1920s unemployment and a severe housing shortage led Red Vienna to erect housing blocks and developments that are still internationally acclaimed. Architects today…
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Workshop
How do animals live?
Learning from nature
A housing shortage on the floor of the ocean, a subterranean living room, a bedroom in the middle of a river or with their home…
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Bookable workshop
Land Use — let the grass grow!
The consumption of land continues to rise. On community outskirts, where land is even cheaper, new shopping centres and supermarkets with large car parks are…
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Excursion for children and young people
Look at that!
Image-bolstering with architecture
We visit representative buildings along the Danube Canal and look at the ways in which individual firms and institutions present themselves: open and flooded with…
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Bookable workshop
More than Flight Shame and Train Pride
The consequences of tourism
Travel is now closely associated with our western lifestyle: in addition to a summer holiday, there’s a quick city break or a weekend trip for…
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Excursion for children and young people
Studying and working on campus
The new WU
On the new WU campus, six international architects have realised their vision of a university building. These new buildings shimmer through the Prater park’s trees,…
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Excursion for children and young people
Subliminal seduction
Critical examination of shop design and shopping behaviour
The design and architecture of shops plays an important role in shopping behaviour – is a shop very inviting or perhaps is the design so…
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Workshop
The profession of the architect
Planning, drawing, building
What exactly do architects do? What is the difference between an engineer and an architect? And how can one become an architect? We offer insights…
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Barrier-free Excursion
The Vienna Ringstraße
Excursion in easily understandable language
The aim of the tour is for participants to get to know the city, exchange ideas and be open to new subject matter, come closer…
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Excursion for children and young people
The Vienna Ringstraße
Parade ground of the bourgeoisie
With a length of 5.3 kilometres the Ringstraße in Vienna provides the setting for numerous monumental buildings that were erected during the historicist era from…
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Bookable Workshop
We Visit Europe’s Best Buildings
The exhibition ‘Europe’s Best Buildings’ presents outstanding architecture projects from Europe that reflect, among other things, the search for forward-looking approaches to existing buildings. After…