Subliminal seduction
Critical examination of shop design and shopping behaviour
The design and architecture of shops plays an important role in shopping behaviour – is a shop very inviting or perhaps is the design so…
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Excursion for children and young people
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Excursion for children and young people
Housing – social and individual
From Stuwerviertel to Nordbahnhof
In the 1920s unemployment and a severe housing shortage led Red Vienna to erect housing blocks and developments that are still internationally acclaimed. Architects today…
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Barrier-free Excursion
Kabelwerk
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
A new City District has been developed on the grounds of the former Kabelwerk factory in Wien-Meidling on the basis of what is a unique…
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Workshop
How do animals live?
Learning from nature
A housing shortage on the floor of the ocean, a subterranean living room, a bedroom in the middle of a river or with their home…
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Workshop
Floating houses
Living on the water
Have you ever thought about living on the water? About moving ‒ always by water ‒ from city to city, along with your entire home?…
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Standard Excursion 7
A City Under Development
Around the New Vienna Central Station
The restructuring of the grounds around the former Südbahnhof has allowed for the large-scale development of a new city district. The face of Vienna has…
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Standard Excursion 5
Campus WU and Surroundings
Studying, Working and Accommodation
The campus of Vienna’s University of Economics and Business offers the most compact mix of spectacular architecture imaginable. Zaha Hadid’s Library and Learning Center is…
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Barrier-free Excursion
MuseumsQuartier
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
Summer can hardly be imagined today without the MuseumsQuartier and all of its museums, dance and youth theatres and pavement cafés. This has not always…
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Bookable workshop
Land Use — let the grass grow!
The consumption of land continues to rise. On community outskirts, where land is even cheaper, new shopping centres and supermarkets with large car parks are…
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Workshop
The profession of the architect
Planning, drawing, building
What exactly do architects do? What is the difference between an engineer and an architect? And how can one become an architect? We offer insights…
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Workshop
Bridging the Gap
Constructing, building and testing
Bridges shape the face of our landscapes and cities. Arched bridges, chain bridges, suspension bridges, monkey bridges, cable-stayed bridges or body bridges – in the…
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Standard Excursion 8
Red Vienna
More than just Housing Developments
100 years after the Social Democrats won the first municipal elections following the accession of voting rights for men and women, Vienna is still known…
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Excursion for children and young people
Studying and working on campus
The new WU
On the new WU campus, six international architects have realised their vision of a university building. These new buildings shimmer through the Prater park’s trees,…
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Standard Excursion 2
Vienna City Walk: Architecture & Design
From Loos’ American Bar to Hollein’s Haas House
This tour provides an expedition through the history of design and architecture in Vienna. Beginning with the American Bar by Adolf Loos it leads, via…
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Barrier-free Excursion
Donau City
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
Donau City is situated directly above a freeway. It was roofed over with concrete slabs so that buildings could be erected here. In some places…
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Bookable Guided Tour
Hot Questions – Cold Storage
The Architekturzentrum Wien offers individual tours of its permanent exhibition “Hot Questions – Cold Storage” in German or English on the days you choose. Minimum…
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Bookable Guided Tour
Europe’s best Buildings
Mies van der Rohe Awards 2024
The Architekturzentrum Wien offers individual tours of the exhibition “Europe’s best Buildings” in German or English on the days you choose. Cancellations and changes to…
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Barrier-free Excursion
Gänsehäufel
Excursion for blind and visually impaired poeple
The approx. 150 year old riverside bathing facility, converted in the 1940s, is situated on an island on the Alte Donau. The architects Max Fellerer…
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Workshop
At Your Own Risk!
School workshop for secondary schools to accompany the exhibition 'Form Follows Rule'
Do regulations and standards safeguard our lives? In any case, they do impact on our behaviour and the image of our towns and cities, and…
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Tailor-made Excursions
Vienna individually
We are happy to advise you with planning tours and selecting projects along suitable routes. Walks, half-day or whole day tours, either by bus or…
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Standard Excursion 1
Vienna City Walk: Architectural Scandals
What upsets the Viennese: from MQ to Looshaus
The Viennese have often reacted to changes in their city with vehement resistance and ridicule. The Secession got its “golden head of cabbage”, the uncompromising…
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Barrier-free Excursion
The Vienna Ringstraße
Excursion in easily understandable language
The aim of the tour is for participants to get to know the city, exchange ideas and be open to new subject matter, come closer…
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Bookable workshop
More than Flight Shame and Train Pride
The consequences of tourism
Travel is now closely associated with our western lifestyle: in addition to a summer holiday, there’s a quick city break or a weekend trip for…
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Workshop
Adventure City
The functions of a city
The Architekturzentrum Wien is converted into a mini-city in which we ourselves become architects, town planners, builders of bridges or roads. At the same time…
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Barrier-free Excursion
Gasometer
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
In 1896 the City of Vienna built the gasometers in the style of industrial architecture – a gasometer is a gas storage tank. They have…
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Standard Excursion 3
Vienna City Walk: Dawn of Modernism
Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos and contemporaries
The start of the 20th century was a time of upheaval and renewal in Vienna. Personalities like Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos left their stamp…
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Workshop
Building with clay
Loam – clay – earth
Clay has long been one of humankind’s most important building materials. People built with clay 9000 years ago. What are the constituents of clay and,…
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Barrier-free Excursion
Karl-Marx-Hof
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
Karl-Marx-Hof is, with a length of 1.2km, one of the largest and most famous buildings in Vienna. As an icon of Socialist Vienna’s housing developments…
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Birthday-Party
Adventure City
The functions of a city
The Architekturzentrum Wien is converted into a mini-city in which we ourselves become architects, town planners, builders of bridges or roads. At the same time… -
Standard Excursion 6
The way we live
New social housing concepts at the Nordbahnhof
The quality of life in Vienna is one of the highest in the world! The high living standard goes hand-in-hand with a historically developed culture…
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Birtday-Party
Bridging the Gap
Constructing, building and testing
Bridges shape the face of our landscapes and cities. They are an important part of the built environment. Arched bridges, chain bridges, suspension bridges, monkey…
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Standard Excursion 4
The Wiener Werkbundsiedlung
Living and housing concepts of modernism
Vienna in the early ’30s, the proponents of the Garden City movement realized, under the leadership of Josef Frank, a model settlement of modernity: the…
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Birthday-Party
Building in space
Space stations and distant planets
Haven’t you always wanted to move to an alien planet, or at least to the moon – and to feel the endlessness of space at…
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Excursion for children and young people
The Vienna Ringstraße
Parade ground of the bourgeoisie
With a length of 5.3 kilometres the Ringstraße in Vienna provides the setting for numerous monumental buildings that were erected during the historicist era from…
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Bookable Workshop
We Visit Europe’s Best Buildings
The exhibition ‘Europe’s Best Buildings’ presents outstanding architecture projects from Europe that reflect, among other things, the search for forward-looking approaches to existing buildings. After…
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Workshop
Building in space
Space stations and distant planets
Haven’t you always wanted to move to an alien planet, or at least to the moon – and to feel the endlessness of space at…
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Birthday-Party
Floating houses
Living on the water
Have you ever thought about living on the water? About moving ‒ always by water ‒ from city to city, along with your entire home?…
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Excursion for children and young people
Look at that!
Image-bolstering with architecture
We visit representative buildings along the Danube Canal and look at the ways in which individual firms and institutions present themselves: open and flooded with…
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Bookable Workshop
Hot Questions
Finding Answers
What can architecture contribute in a context of the climate crisis? How do we want to live in the future? And, what is the impact…