Workshop (6–99)

Archikids: What Do Architects Do?

Sat 15.02.2025, 15:00-17:00
Photo collage with several photos, on them are ruler, Barbie, tool box, man on ladder

Architects' tools have changed.
© photograph: Architekturzentrum Wien

An architect designs buildings that should be stable, practical and beautiful. So an architect has to have many skills: drawing plans, calculating costs, negotiating with clients and, in the meantime, increasingly ensuring that the whole construction site, including the materials and machinery, does not produce too much CO2.

As a result, only very few architects work on their own anymore, most work in large teams. We give you an insight into the work of architects, taking a look at the tools they work with. Then we design a building in the form of a model.