Press images: The Az W Programme, 2025

Aerial view of Levittown, 1949 William Levitt (1907–1994) was considered the largest developer in America and declared his company to be the “General Motors of the housing industry.” The first of half a dozen suburbs he developed – Levittown on Long Island – had 60,000 residents. At the height of production, a house was built every fifteen minutes.
© Photograph: Levittown Public Library

Bill Owens: Cleo and James Pruden, 1972 In 1973, Bill Owens’s photo book Suburbia was published. The unusual and captivating photographs show the complexity of the American middle-class landscape.
© Photograph: Bill Owens Archive, Milano

Ed Templeton: Contemporary Suburbium, 2017 The Contemporary Suburbium series is a photographic meditation on life in the suburbs around Huntington Beach, California, in their mix of hip beach culture and urban sprawl.
© Photograph: Ed Templeton

Kate Wagner: Observations from McMansion Hell, 2023 Kate Wagner is the author of the viral blog McMansionHell, in which she explores the ugliest houses in the world from top to bottom while also informing people about architecture and design.
© Photograph: Kate Wagner

Poster, Austrian Productivity Center, 1952 In 1950, the Austrian Productivity Center was established using funds from the Marshall Plan with the aim of putting material, intellectual, and moral forces at the service of increasing the productivity of the Austrian economy.
© ÖNB Image Archive, poster collection

The use of terracotta elements for roof structures saves on steel and cement. Anupama Kundoo: Wall House, Auroville, 2000
© Photograph: Javier Callejas

The production of architectural elements made of terracotta generates new income for potters.
© Photograph: Andreas Deffner

At this library in Puducherry, a delicate thin concrete slab roof sits on the walls made of locally produced bricks. Anupama Kundoo: Library Nandalal Sewa Samithi, Puducherry, 2018
© Photograph: Javier Callejas

Az W Architekturzentrum Wien: Jahrespressekonferenz (111.12.2023) Foto: eSeL.at - Lorenz Seidler
© Foto: eSeL.at - Lorenz Seidler