8th Vienna Architecture Congress

The 8th Vienna Architecture Congress leaves the traditional paths of the architectural conferences organized by the Vienna Architecture Center. The past seven congresses were dedicated to exploring the state of the art in contemporary architecture and topical issues of urban planning.

With “Architecture and Publishing”, we move on for the first time to the meta-level of addressing the problem of communicating architecture as such. The general theme of the coming Vienna Architectural Congress is not an insider debate of architecture and urban planning, but conditions and strategies of architecture’s media presence and `mediability’.

20th-century architecture has always been linked with certain publishing channels and strategies. Traditional architectural magazines saw themselves as ideological strongholds of basic architectural positions, and fundamental debates on architectural theory also took place in, and were publicized over, special media.

Architectural publications used to comprise only those specialized magazines or books written for, and mainly read by, architects. What was perhaps considered beyond that was the kind of architectural criticism that established itself in the daily press. Meanwhile, the situation has become more complex and more confused. Architecture is on the rise in the media. And architectural publications have gained a footing in many new markets and media. Classical architectural magazines do still exist, but aside from those, in addition to that, information on architecture can also be found in general-interest and in lifestyle magazines.

Thus, the field of architectural publishing includes media for internal debates of architectural theory as well as service publications informing about the profession, promotions media, and mass-market publications on architecture. We would therefore like to take the 8th Vienna Architecture Congress as an occasion to present and discuss the whole range of architectural publishing today.

Organisation and Information:
Isabella Marte
Phone: ++43 1 522 31 15 – 13
E-Mail: congress@azw.at

Programme and Speakers

Friday, November 10, 2000
Saturday, November 11, 2000
Sunday, November 12, 2000

Friday, November 10, 2000

2:00 p.m.
Opening
Dietmar Steiner, Director of the Architekturzentrum Wien

2:30 p.m.
Lectures
Mario Carpo, Associate Professor, Université St. Etienne, F
Edward Ford, Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA
Martin Pawley, Architectural critic, GB

5:30 p.m.
Short statements and panel discussion
Frédéric Edelmann, Le Monde, F
Michael Mönninger, Berliner Zeitung, G
Niklas Maak, Süddeutsche Zeitung, D

Host:
Dietmar Steiner

Saturday, November 11, 2000

2:00 p.m.
Short statements and panel discussion
Barbara Friedrich, Architektur und Wohnen, G
Margit J. Mayer, Architectural Digest, G
Christian Tröster, Häuser, G

Host:
Georg Schöllhammer, Editor in chief springerin

4:30 p.m.
Short statements and panel discussion
Irma Noseda, Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, CH
Ole Boumann, Archis, NL
Felicity D. Scott, Grey Room, USA
Gerrit Confurius, Daidalos, G

Host:
Hermann Czech, Architect and Author, A

Sunday, November 12, 2000

2:00 p.m.
Short statements and panel discussion
Felix Zwoch, Bauwelt, G
Sabine Schneider, Baumeister, G
Christian Schittich, Detail, G
Matthias Boeckl, Architektur aktuell, A
Konrad Fischer, Architektur + Bauforum, A
Franziska Leeb, architektur, A
Axel Sowa, architecture d´aujourd´hui, F
Ursula Baus, deutsche Bauzeitung, G

Host:
Arno Ritter, Director of Architekturforum Tirol, A

5:00 p.m.
Short statements and panel discussion
Otto Kapfinger, Scientific Director of the Architekturzentrum Wien, A
Ute Woltron, Journalist, Der Standard, A
Walter Chramosta, Critic, A
Christian Kühn, Critic, A
Liesbeth Wächter-Böhm, Critic, A
Karin Tschagova, Critic, A
Norbert Mayr, Critic, A

Host:
Wolfgang Jean Stock, Journalist and Author, G

Links

International Journals
Newspapers

International Journals

2G
Barcelona, Spain (ESP / E)

A+U
Tokyo, Japan (JP / E)

AD
London, GB (E)

AIT Architektur
Leinfelden – Echterdingen, Germany (G)

ARCH+
Aachen, Germany (G)

Archis
Rotterdam, Netherlands (NL / E)

Architektur
Perchtoldsdorf, Austria (G)

Architektur Aktuell
Vienna, Austria (G)

Architektur & Bauforum
Vienna, Austria (G)

Architektur & Wohnen
Hamburg, Germany (G)

AV Monografias / AV Monographs
Madrid, Spain (ESP / E)

Baumeister
Munich, Germany (G)

db DEUTSCHE BAUZEITUNG
Stuttgart, Germany (G)

DETAIL
Munich, Germany (G / E / F)

DISP
Zurich, Switzerland (G / F / E / I)

Domus
Mailand, Italy (I / E)

El Croquis
Madrid, Spain (ESP / E)

Faces
Genf, Switzerland (F / G)

Harvard Design Magazine
Cambridge, USA (E)

Hochparterre
Zurich, Switzerland (G)

JA The Japan Architect
Tokyo, Japan (JP / E)

Kunstforum International
Cologne, Germany (G)

L´ Architecture d´ Aujourd´hui
Paris, France (F)

Parkett
Zurich – New York – Frankfurt, Switzerland (G / E)

Quaderns
Barcelona, Spain (ESP / E)

Springerin
Vienna, Austria (G)

STADT BAUWELT
Berlin, Germany (G)

Techniques & Architecture
Paris, France (F / E)

The Architectural Review
London, Great Britain (E)

Topos
Munich, Germany (G / E)

Arch
Bratislava, Slowakia (SLK / E)

Oris
Zagreb, Croatia (CR / E)

AAfiles
London, Great Britain (E)

Abitare
Milan, Italy (I / E)

ANY
New York, USA (E)

Architecture
New York, USA (E)

a+t
Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain (ESP / E)

Arquitectura Viva
Madrid, Spain (ESP / E)

Assemblage
Cambridge, USA (E)

Architectural Heritage
Edinburgh, Great Britain (E)

Architectural Record
New York, USA (E)

Architecture Australia
Melbourne, Australia (E)

ArchitectureSOUTH
Franklin, USA (E)

ark Arkkitehti
Helsinki, Finnland (Fi / E)

Arkitektnytt
Oslo, Norway (N)

ART2
Helsinki, Finnland (E)

Bauwelt
Berlin, Germany (G)

Byggekunst
Oslo, Norway (N / E)

Design
London, GB (E)

Design Report
Hamburg, Germany D)

Design Issues
Cambridge, USA (E)

Deco Echoes
Canada (E)

Derive
Vienna, Austria (G)

Entre Rayas
Caracas, Venezuela (ESP)

Form
Frankfurt am Main, Germany (G / E)

GA Houses
Tokyo, Japan (JP / E)

GA
Tokyo, Japan (E)

Grey Room
Cambridge, USA (E)

I.D.
New York, USA (E)

Irish Architect
Dublin, Irland (E)

Journal of Design History
Oxford, Great Britain (E)

Licht & Architektur
Gütersloh, Germany (G)

Metropolis Magazine
New York, USA (E)

Ottagono
Bologna, Italy (I / E)

Piranesi
Ljubljana, Slowenia (SL / E)

Rassegna
Bologna, Italy (I / E)

Telepolis
Cologne, Germany (G)

Trama
Quito, Equador (ESP)

Trans
Zurich, Switzerland (G / E)

World Architecture Review
Shenzhen, China (E / China)

Zlaty Rez
Prag, Czech Republic (CZ / E)

Wallpaper*
London, Great Britain (E)

DBZ
Gütersloh, Germany (G)

JAE Journal of Architectural Education
Cambridge, USA (E)

UME
Melbourne, Australia (E)

Loudpaper
Berkeley, USA (E)

Oculum
Brasil (Por)

Wettbewerbe Aktuell
Freiburg, Germany (G)

Wolkenkuckucksheim
Cottbus, Germany (G / E / Ru)

Newspapers

Le Monde
Paris, France (F)

Berliner Zeitung
Berlin, Germany (G)

Süddeutsche Zeitung
Munich, Germany (G)

Der Standard
Vienna, Austria (G)

Die Presse
Wien, Österreich (G)