City Dialogue in the Az W

The City of Vienna’s Position on Architecture and Urban Development

Over the past few years the City of Vienna has been working on a series of concepts, programmes and guidelines geared towards increasing the quality of the planning and architecture produced. These represent the basis for key decisions in the various planning instances.

In The Vienna Architecture Declaration (Wiener Architektur Deklaration), and building on the existing concepts, the position adopted by the City of Vienna on the key issues in the city’s future development, on architecture, planning and building, is to be discussed and outlined in more emphatic detail.

The more precise formulation provided and the impulses gleaned from the discussion are to be worked into The Vienna Architecture Declaration (Wiener Architektur Deklaration) for publication, and then put into practise.
The commitment of all the key protagonists and a regular dialogue with experts and in the public realm are the prerequisites for quality in architecture, and so for the quality of life in the city as well as for Vienna’s ranking as a location in an expanded Europe.

The Panel

Jakob Dunkl, architect
Josef Matousek, Head of the MA 19 (Department for Architecture and Urban Design)
Kurt Puchinger, Chairman of the Advisory Panel on Town Planning and Urban Design, Town Planner
Rudolf Schicker, Executive Councillor for Urban Development and Traffic
Robert Temel, Chairman of the ÖGFA
Silja Tillner, architect
Moderated by: Ute Woltron, journalist
In collaboration with Stadtplanung Wien.