Sixth Vienna Architecture Congress

After the congresses on “Urbanisation” of the last few years the 6th Viennese Architecture Congress lays its focus on the various aspects of housing. It intends to initiate a critical and historical survey to analyze the residence issue in the many cultural strata it involves: urban planning and architecture, private images of life and media, technology and building industry, economy and the changing working world. A kind of “attack of interdisciplinarity against existing architectural structures”.

PROGRAMM
Day 1 – Friday, November 13th 1998

3:00 p.m.
Opening: Dietmar Steiner, Director of the Architekturzentrum Wien

3:30 p.m.
“Subtenants in third space”
Georg Schöllhammer, art critic, editor in chief of springerin. Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, Vienna

5:00 p.m.
“Refugees don’t dwell”
ARGE Baustop. randstadt

6:30 p.m.
“Roaming Living”
Alfons Dworsky, Architectural theorist, professor at the Technical University Hannover

8:00 p.m.
“Rooms to play in. On the power and the making of film-images”
Toni Lüdi, Production designer, Head of the film- und tv-scenography program at the Technical University Rosenheim

Day 2 – Saturday, November 14th 1998

2:00 p.m.
“Beautiful New Disneyworld. The City as Themepark”
Anette Baldauf, Cultural critic, Research Assistant at the New School for Social Research, New York

3:30 p.m.
“Media House”
Beatriz Colomina, Architectural theorist, historian, professor at the Architecture Department at Princeton University, N.Y.

5:00 p.m.
“Gender, Houses, Cities”
Ann Forsyth, Professor in the Regional Planning program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

7:00 p.m.

Panel-Discussion
Rem Koolhaas, Architect, OMA Rotterdam, and participants of the congress
Moderation: Georg Schöllhammer, Dietmar Steiner
Reception: Bernhard Görg
Vice-mayor of the City of Vienna, Councellor for Planning and Future

Day 3 – Sunday, November 15th 1998

1:00 p.m.
“House rules”
Kari Jormakka, Architect, Professor for Architectural Theory at the Technical University Vienna

2:30 p.m.
“Glasgow 1999 – Homes for the Future”
David Page, Architect, Glasgow

4:00 p.m.
“Gradations”
Finn Geipel, Architect, LABFAC Paris

5:30 p.m.
“Conditions of architectural production”
Dietmar Eberle, Architect, ARGE Baumschlager / Eberle, Bregenz

7:00 p.m.
“Recent Projects”
Winy Maas, Architect, MRVDV Rotterdam

8:30 p.m.
“Some Places to Live (happily)”
Anne Lacaton, Jean Philippe Vassal, Architects, Bordeaux

Translation into German and English
Between the lectures discussion and coffee brake
Congress-cafe and bookshop open daily 2.00 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.
Tickets: 100.- ATS/day, 250.- ATS/ 3 days
Advance booking: Architekturzentrum Wien

Venue:
Architekturzentrum Wien
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna
Austria
Organisation:
Isabella Marte
T ++43 1 522 31 15 Ext. 13
F ++43 1 522 31 17
e-mail: congress@azw.at