Bernard Rudofsky
On his 100th Birthday
If he had still been alive today, the architect Bernard Rudofsky (*19.4.1905 Vienna, 12.3.1988 New York) would have celebrated his…
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Symposium Fri 15.04.2005 – Sat 16.04.2005
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Panel Discussion Wed 06.04.2005
19:00-21:00Stadtdialoge Vienna Dialogues at the Az W
From Kaerntner Strasse to SCS and Back: Shopping Surfaces in Vienna
Concentrated shopping areas in the form of shopping centres are no longer being developed exclusively on the urban periphery. Valuable…
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Presentation Wed 30.03.2005
19:00-21:00[film]show: Pessac. Leben im Labor (Living in the Laboratory)
A Film by Claudia Trinker and Julia Zöller, Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
When is a House also a Home?In 1924 the then hardly known architect Le Corbusier received the commission to complete…
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Panel Discussion Wed 16.03.2005
19:00-21:00Awarding Architectural Commissions
General Planning Consortia, Planning and Financing Consortia and Other Practises
The Az W and the BIG (Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft) are to be playing host to regular public discussions twice a year at…
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Symposium Sun 13.03.2005
15:00-00:00How To Become a Star
Symposium Accompanying the Exhibition "The Roof (in Mexico) 96°13'W 16°33'N"
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Symposium Sat 22.01.2005
16:00-23:59SocióPolis
Positions
"My house is my neighbourhood, my neighbourhood is my house". This sentence forms the leitmotif for 12 international teams of…
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Panel Discussion Wed 15.12.2004
19:00-21:00North-South-East-West
The Railway and Vienna
Bahnhof Wien – Europa Mitte (Vienna Station – Europe Central) is to replace Vienna's south and east stations in the…
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Presentation Mon 13.12.2004
Daily 10:00 AM - 07:00 PM, Wednesdays until 09:00 PMAll the Best. A Walk 2004
On the Way to SocióPolis. A modern search for shelter in the Architekturzentrum Wien exhibition
The first documented population census was held in the year 0, and was the reason why Jesus' birthplace was a…
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Panel Discussion Wed 01.12.2004
19:00-21:00virtual dschungle 3
Shopping – The Precise Control over Seduction and Indulgence
The formerly unified urban interface linking the act of shopping with the town is expanding visibly. Just as there used…
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Congress Fri 12.11.2004 – Sun 14.11.2004
12th Vienna Architecture Congress
Intelligent Regions
For a few years now the architects, the planners, the social scientists and the economists have been focussing with interest…
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Panel Discussion Wed 03.11.2004
19:00-21:00125 Years of Birkhäuser Verlag (publishing house)
ARCHITEKTUR:CONSULTING. Skills/Synergy/Interfaces
Consulting has always been a part of architecture and civil engineering. Professional investor-consultants are increasingly coming to shape the dialogue…
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Panel Discussion Wed 20.10.2004
19:00-21:00Stadt des Kindes
Paneldiscussion
Oliver Österreicher, architect, 'The Chronology of Stadt des Kindes'Followed by a discussion:Moderated by: Christian Kühn, Architekturstiftung Österreich* Michaela Mischek-Lainer, Mischek…
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Presentation Wed 13.10.2004
19:00-21:00a_[film]show 2
Supplementary programme for a_show
a_[film]show 2: a further evening dedicated to the architecture film is to accompany the exhibition a_show. With a special focus…
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Long Night of the Museums at the Az W Sat 09.10.2004
18:00-01:00Long Night of the Museums at the Az W 2004
For night people interested in architecture: a_show is staying open until 1am at the Architekturzentrum Wien as part of the…
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Lecture Wed 06.10.2004
19:00-21:00Lecture by Dominique Perrault
Otto Wagner Städtebaupreis 2004
Dominique Perrault, chairman of the jury, is to mark the fourth Otto Wagner Städtebaupreis with a speech in the main…
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Lecture Wed 22.09.2004
19:00-21:00Work presentation by Wolf D. Prix
Presentation of International Projects
"Coop Himmelb(l)au is not a colour but an idea of having architecture with fantasy, as buoyant and variable as clouds."In…
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Lecture Thu 05.08.2004
19:00-21:00Celebrating Democracy and Creating Identity in Soweto
Lecture by Pierre Swanepoel (studioMAS), Architect, Johannesburg held in English
The architects studioMAS are a relatively young and very active operation based in Johannesburg and Capetown. Since its founding in…
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Panel Discussion Wed 07.07.2004
19:00-21:00Panel Discussion in "The Austrian Phenomenon"
The emergence of new tendencies in Austria in the 1960s is marked by discontinuity, and can be seen as a…
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Panel Discussion Wed 23.06.2004
19:00-21:00virtual dschungle 2
Continual Forms – Networked Building
Computer design has the aura of great freedom. The reverse side of this freedom is a certain element of randomness.…
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Party Sat 05.06.2004
18:00-20:00kiosk – the premiere
A particular highpoint of the Architekturtage 2004 is provided by the presentation of the first completed architecture Kiosk, the winning…
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Lecture Fri 04.06.2004
17:30-20:30Le Nouveau Réalisme
The New Generation of French Urbanists
An international event on the programme for the Architekturtage 2004 is provided by an Architekturzentrum Wien presentation of five French…
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Panel Discussion Wed 02.06.2004
19:00-21:00China's Building Boom
Opportunities for young Austrian architects
It is no secret that they have been building a great deal and quickly in China over the past few…
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Panel Discussion Wed 19.05.2004
19:00-21:00Schwarzenbergplatz. The Past and Future of a Public Space
Lecture and Panel Discussion in German in Cooperation with the Wien Museum
Site Dynamics. On the history of the development of SchwarzenbergplatzLecture by Bernadette Reinhold, art historianCreated by the building of the…
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Lecture Fri 14.05.2004
19:00-21:00Catherine Mosbach, Landscape Architect
Behind the Scenes of Inscribing the Landscape – Project Lecture in German
Catherine Mosbach, a prominent landscape architect from Paris with a pan-European reputation, is presenting her approach along with selected projects.…
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Lecture Wed 28.04.2004
19:00-21:00Françoise-Hélène Jourda
Project Lecture in German
Françoise-Hélène Jourda has been head of the Institut für Raumgestaltung und Entwerfen at Vienna University of Technology since 1999. Alongside…
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Presentation Wed 17.03.2004
19:00-21:00a_[movie]show
Ab Evening of Architecture Films and the Genre's Development in the 20th Century
To launch the rich and varied accompanying programme to a_show, a specially compiled evening of films (curator: Helmut Weihsmann) is…
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A Green Christmas Sun 21.12.2003
17:00-21:00An Evening Together
da capo
da capoWith Deputy District Chairperson Madeleine Reiser 7. Bezirk
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A Green Christmas Sat 20.12.2003
11:00-21:00F & C Junior Company
What's cooking F&C?
What's cooking F&C?Feasting for the VinziDorfStudents from the hotel and restaurateur college are to be spoiling their guests with tasty… -
A Green Christmas Fri 19.12.2003
17:00-21:00ÖGFA
ÖGFA_Lola & Bolek
ÖGFA_Lola & BolekArchitecture & Politics 6: Vinyl From the Prefabs Visuals: Andreas Rumpfhuber"It's only just starting" – Lola and Bolek… -
A Green Christmas Thu 18.12.2003
17:00-21:00Kammer der Architekten und Ingenieurkonsulenten
Chamber Flickering
Chamber FlickeringThis glitzy evening is being organised by the Chamber of Architects and Engineering Consultants for Vienna, Lower Austria and… -
Az W by Moonlight Wed 17.12.2003
18:00-21:00Alles Gute. A Walk 2003
An Az W Fixture
A contemplative architectural open-air reading as part of 'Alles Gute. A Walk' at around 06:00 pm with warm Glühwein and… -
A Green Christmas Tue 16.12.2003
17:00-21:00Architecture in Progress & eisvogel
Hot Christmas
Hot ChristmasBetter to eat fire than go curlingBetter a burning Christmas tree than cold feetBetter glowing wine than frozen beer… -
A Green Christmas Mon 15.12.2003
17:00-21:00IG Architektur
Punch Panel
Punch PanelThe final plenum of 2003 in the form of an informal conversation with Glühwein and sounds by Herr Norbertwww.ig-architektur.at -
A Green Christmas Sun 14.12.2003
11:00-21:00F&C Junior Company
What's cooking at the F&C?
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A Green Christmas Sat 13.12.2003
17:00-21:00nextroom – Architektur im Netz
nextroom opens its doors
nextroom opens its doorsThe virtual architecture platform is at last showing what's behind it.Finest Glühwein architecture. With music.www.nextroom.at -
A Green Christmas Fri 12.12.2003
17:00-21:00noncon:form & synn
beswitched
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A Green Christmas Thu 11.12.2003
17:00-21:00The Green Party
The Greens' Green Christmas at the Az W
The Greens' Green Christmas at the Az WDJ line and discussions on building with Eva Glawischnig and Christoph Chorherrwien.gruene.at -
A Green Christmas Thu 11.12.2003 – Sun 21.12.2003
A Green Christmas at the Az W
The Xmas season is opening on December 11 in the Architekturzentrum Wien courtyard. But as the weather forecast for the… -
Panel Discussion Wed 10.12.2003
19:00-21:00Architecture and Art
A Confrontation
The exhibition 'How to Build? The Modernist Book' provides an introduction to the history of Modernist architecture in the 20th…
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Presentation Wed 03.12.2003
19:00-21:00wednesdays 48
ST/A/R Volksfest at the Az W
Presentation of the newspaper ST/A/RStädteplanung/Architektur/Religionpublisher/editor: Heidulf Gerngross, Thomas RedlST/A/R is a newspaper to promote the direct cultural discourse – a… -
Panel Discussion Wed 19.11.2003
19:00-21:00wednesdays 47
virtual jungle 1
Andrea Palladio's ideal image of the architect as Uomo Universalis finds itself on even more unreal terrain today: Digital media…
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Congress Fri 14.11.2003 – Sun 16.11.2003
11th Vienna Architecture Congress
Intelligent Realities. What to build on in the 21st Century?
"It is generally conceded that a democratic society should not be in the hands of the institutions within it; it…
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Panel Discussion Wed 05.11.2003
19:00-21:00wednedays 46
"The book will kill the edifice"
"The book will kill the edifice" conjectured Victor Hugo in his 1831 novel Notre-Dame of Paris. In the 20th century… -
Panel Discussion Wed 29.10.2003
19:00-21:00wednesdays 45
Height X Width: Learning from San Gimignano and Los Angeles
"High-rise buildings are still considered to be intruders or alien elements in European cities. Towers have a historic right to… -
Presentation Wed 15.10.2003
19:00-21:00wednesdays 44
The Austrian Contribution to the 5th Architecture Biennial in Sao Paolo
Since September 2003 the 5th Architecture Biennial in Sao Paolo has been showing a combination of international thematic exhibitions and,… -
Panel Discussion Wed 24.09.2003
19:00-21:00wednesdays 43
rien ne va plus! all over? Vienna and the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site
Cities don't fall from the heavens, they are continually evolving. The resulting diversity and heterogeneity form a city's character! What… -
Long Night of the Museums at the Az W Sat 20.09.2003
00:00-23:59Lange Nacht der Museen im Az W 2003
A special programme of guided tours and events to accompany the exhibitions 'Lacaton & Vassal. Beyond Form' and 'GO EAST…
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Lecture Wed 10.09.2003
19:00-21:00wednesdays 42
GO EAST [Vienna meets Sarajevo]
An architecture guidebook and new housing development concepts, both for Sarajevo, have been completed over the past few months as… -
Panel Discussion Wed 23.07.2003
19:00-21:00Building In Vienna
Panel discussion to accompany the exhibition "5,000,000 m3 Vienna"
To accompany the opening of the exhibition: '5,000,000m3 of Vienna. The New Large-Scale Projects', in which 16 buildings/complexes are to…
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Party Fri 27.06.2003
19:00-21:00Programme
Architekturzentrum Wien
10 years Architekturzentrum Wien. It has been an adventure laden with uncertainty that began ten years ago. In the meantime…