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…
Children's workshop at the Az W
© Photograph: Az W
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 on their backs: animals live in places that are too damp, too cold or too windy for people. In the workshop space we give a free rein to our own ideas for housing.
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All under one roof!
Is the American Dream Home Still Relevant?
The dream of owning your own home with a garden, a pool and a car has spread throughout Europe — having begun in the American…
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Workshop
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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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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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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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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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…