Az W in WASHINGTON DC: housing in vienna. architecture for everyone

Vienna has developed an impressive tradition of building functional and at the same time livable public houing. The City’s housing design policy has broadened over the years to embrace fresh ideas and new aspects for improving the quality of life.

A comprehensive survey of urban housing design in Vienna from its beginnings to the present, the exhibit, curated by the Architekturzentrum Wien and designed by SPAN-architekten, features both public housing projects and for-profit ventures.

Sponsors:
School of Architecture and Planning, CUA
Austrian Cultural Forum, Embassy of Austria, Washington, DC
Architekturzentrum Wien

Architects and projects presented in the exhibition:

THE EIGHTIES
| TRAVIATAGASSE RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
Raimund Abraham, Walter Buck, Uta Giencke, Günter Lautner, Peter Scheifinger, Rudolf Szedenik,
Carl Pruscha, 1988 ­ 1991

| PILOTENGASSE RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
Adolf Krischanitz, Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, Otto Steidle, 1987 ­ 1992

THEME COMPLEXES
| COMPACT CITY
BUSarchitektur (Laura P. Spinadel, Claudio J. Blazica, Rainer Lalics), 1999 ­ 2001

| FRAUEN-WERK-STADT
Franziska Ullmann, Liselotte Peretti, Gisela Podreka, Elsa Prochazka, 1994 ­ 1997

| IN DER WIESEN NORD
Peter Scheifinger, 1998 ­ 2000

| SARGFABRIK
BKK-2 (Christoph Lammerhuber, Franz Sumnitsch, Florian Wallnöfer, Johann Winter,
Evelyn Wurster, Axel Linemayr), 1994 – 1996

| MISS SARGFABRIK
BKK-3 (Franz Sumnitsch, Johann Winter with Regina Gschwendtner, Christoph Moerkl),
1999 ­ 2000

REVITALIZATION
| GASOMETER SIMMERING
Jean Nouvel, Coop Himmelb(l)au (Wolf D. Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky + Partner),
Manfred Wehdorn, Wilhelm Holzbauer, 1997 ­ 2001

DONAU CITY ­ A CITY WITHIN A CITY
| DONAU CITY RESIDENTIAL PARK
Eric Steiner, Cufer+Partner (Margarethe Cufer, Peter Balogh, Thomas Bammer), Michael Loudon, Delugan_Meissl (Elke Delugan-Meissl, Roman Delugan), 1996 ­ 1999

| MISCHEK TOWER
Delugan_Meissl (Elke Delugan-Meissl, Roman Delugan), 1997 – 2000

URBAN RENEWAL AND URBAN EXPANSION
| WIMBERGERGASSE APARTMENT AND OFFICE BUILDING
Delugan_Meissl (Elke Delugan-Meissl, Roman Delugan), 2000 ­ 2001

| WIEDNER HAUPTSTRASSE APARTMENT COMPLEX
ARTEC (Bettina Götz, Richard Manahl), Rüdiger Lainer, s&s architekten (Cornelia Schindler,
Rudolf Szedenik), 2000 ­ 2003

| FRAUENFELDERSTRASSE APARTMENT COMPLEX
henke und schreieck Architekten (Dieter Henke, Marta Schreieck), 1991 ­ 1993

| WIENERBERG CITY DEVELOPMENT COMPETITION
Cuno Brullmann, Delugan_Meissl (Elke Delugan-Meissl, Roman Delugan), 2002 ­ 2004;
Helmut Wimmer, 2002 ­ 2004; Günter Lautner, 2000 ­ 2003; Coop Himmelb(l)au (Wolf D. Prix,
Helmut Swiczinsky + Partner), 2002 ­ 2004

| AM HOFGARTEL 16/PAULASGASSE 13
Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler (Kinayeh + Markus Geiswinkler), 2001 ­ 2003

| LINZERSTRASSE 421A
Nasrine Seraji, 2002 ­ 2003

| HUSTERGASSE 3 ­ 7
Hermann & Valentiny & partner (Hubert Hermann, Francy Valentiny), 2003 ­ 2004

| SATZINGERWEG HOUSING COMPLEX
Jean Nouvel, 1994 ­ 1998

| TOKIOSTRASSE 7
Adolf Krischanitz, 2001 ­ 2003

| MEISSAUERGASSE 21 ­ 23/KOMZAKGASSE 21
gerner°gerner plus (Andreas + Gerda Maria Gerner), s&s architekten (Rudolf Szedenik, Cornelia Schindler), 2004 ­ 2006

| KASERNGASSE 3
RATAPLAN (Rudolf Fritz, Susanne Höhndorf, Gerhard Huber, Martina Schöberl, Friedl Winkler),
2003 ­ 2005

A NEW PARADIGM
| DEVELOPMENT COMPETITION: PASSIVE HOUSE – FIRST CLIMATE COMFORT HOME
s&s architekten (Rudolf Szedenik, Cornelia Schindler), Hermann Kaufmann & Johannes Kaufmann,
2004 ­ 2005

| KABELWERK
Architektengruppe Kabelwerk: Hermann & Valentiny & Partner, Schwalm-Theiss & Gressenbauer, Mascha & Seethaler, Martin Wurnig, pool Architektur, Werkstatt Wien Spiegelfeld, Holnsteiner & Co, 2003 ­ 2007