Opening Discussion
The Terrassenhaus: An Urban Dream?
To accompany the exhibition 'The Terrassenhaus. A Viennese Fetish? / SammlungsLab #1'
Town Musicians of Bremen, Artec Architekten
© Architekturzentrum Wien, Collection, photograph: Margherita Spiluttini
Urban density and a closeness to nature made the Terrassenhaus a hit. What's needed for a revival?
At the Opening of the exhibition an intergenerational panel discussion engages with the question of why, in the architecture discourse at least, the Terrassenhaus is currently experiencing a revival despite having been discontinued as a type of housing in the 1970s. How would guidelines have to change to make the Terrassenhaus easier to realise again? And to what extent can the Terrassenhaus be regarded as a Viennese phenomenon?
Guests:
- Hermann Czech, architect
- Michael Gehbauer, CEO of WBV-GPA
- Bettina Götz, Artec Architekten
- Friedrich Kurrent, architect
- Michael Pech, ÖSW board of directors
- Anna Popelka, PPAG Architects
Moderated by Lorenzo De Chiffre, curator of the exhibition