At the Az W: Better Housing for the Majority — but how?

The Bruno Kreisky Prize for Socio-Ecological Housing 2024 goes to the book ‘Cooperative Conditions. A Primer on Architecture, Finance and Regulation in Zurich’ by Anne Kockelkorn, Susanne Schindler and Rebekka Hirschberg. The focus for the evening is on a discussion of the conditions for the success of non-profit housing in a comparison between countries.

Which paths lead to fairer and more communal living — and what are the hurdles to be overcome? For the awarding of the Bruno Kreisky Prize at the Architekturzentrum Wien, the prize-winners take selected projects from Zurich to provide insights into the conditions, instruments and potential of non-profit housing. In conversation with the author of ‘Dach über dem Kopf’, Nikolaus Dimmel, and the co-curator of ‘Better Living’ at the Austrian pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, Sabine Pollak, there is a subsequent discussion of models for social housing and better homes in an international comparison.

The Bruno Kreisky Prize for Social-Ecological Housing and Communal Living has been awarded annually since 1922 in a cooperation by the Karl Renner Institute with the Verein für Wohnbauförderung (association for the promotion of housing development) in the spirit of Bruno Kreisky’s life’s work. The prize stands for freedom, equality, justice, solidarity, democracy and the freedom of art.

Welcome Address:
Angelika Fitz, Director Architekturzentrum Wien
Hannes Swoboda, President S&D Group of the European Parliament, ret., Chair of the jury
Michael Gehbauer, Chairman Verein für Wohnbauförderung

Congratulations: Director Architekturzentrum Wien

Lecture by the Prize-Winner

Panel discussion:
Nikolaus Dimmel, Sociologist
Anne Kockelkorn, Susanne Schindler, Rebekka Hirschberg, authors
Michael Gehbauer, Chairman Verein für Wohnbauförderung
Sabine Pollak, Architect

Moderated by: Maik Novotny, Architecture journalist and author
Your host for the evening: Michael Rosecker, Deputy Director of the Karl Renner Institute