Vintners and the Building Buzz

Over the course of the last 20 years the functional demands for the creation of high-quality wine have changed. These changes have often rendered new buildings a necessity. Astonishingly, though, winemakers have increasingly been turning to famous architects with these commissions in the small communities between Ehrenhausen and Deutschkreuz instead of working with local building companies. The reasons behind this phenomenon are many, with the production and presentation of wine being subjected to a veritable building buzz.

A circle of architecture and wine experts traces the phenomenon of WineArchitecture and attempts to outline a trend for the future.

The Panel

Otto Kapfinger, architecture critic
Fred Loimer, vintner
Anton Mayerhofer, architect
Michael Thurner, Österreichische Weinmarketing GmbH (Austrian Wine Marketing Board)
Karin Tschavgova, architecture correspondent
Ute Watzlawick, Wine & Partners
Moderated by: Christian Seiler, journalist

Otto Kapfinger’s guide to architecture in Burgenland is to be presented in the course of the discussion, providing comprehensive coverage of the building activity in this prospering region of Austria.