Current Events Lecture Wed 03.05.200019:00-21:00wednesdays 06Klaus Kada - Portraits of Austrian Architects / Volume 4Bookpresentation:In a series of portraits of Austrian architects the Architekturzentrum Wien… Lecture Wed 26.04.200019:00-21:00wednesdays 05Architecture.Politics 1Guests: Gerhard Buresch, Arnold Klotz, Martina Kögl, Johann PadutschThe current political situation unleashes virulent discussion on the relationship of architecture… Lecture Wed 12.04.200019:00-21:00wednesdays 04"hintergrund"Introduction by: Dietmar Steiner, Otto Kapfinger, Isabella MarteOvalhall, Main Entrance Museum Quarter, Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 ViennaThe new monthly magazine is… Lecture Wed 05.04.200019:00-21:00wednesdays 03Wagner Church at Steinhof - the RenovationGuests: Otto Antonia Graf, Eva-Maria Höhle, Monika Keplinger, Peter MikolaschThe financial prerequisites for the salvation of the Otto Wagner Church… Lecture Wed 22.03.200018:00-00:00wednesdays 02Recents ProjectsLecture by: Sir Norman FosterMunicipality of Vienna, Geschäftsgruppe Planung und Zukunft, Österreichische Postsparkasse und Architekturzentrum Wien.Sir Norman Foster, an excellent… Lecture Wed 08.03.200019:00-21:00wednesdays 01Praha ILecture by: Klaus Spechtenhauser / Monika PlatzerAs preparation for the Tour 53 to Prague on March 11-12, in which the… Congress Fri 12.11.1999 – Sun 14.11.1999Seventh Viennese Architecture CongressThe Future of Cities - Learning from AsiaCorrelating with key words such as globalisation, international networking and rapid growth, the Asian metropolis has crystallised out of the… Lecture Tue 13.07.199919:00-21:00Tuesday Architecure 04IdentityPanel discussion with: Wolfgang Kos, Friedrich Achleitner, Boris Podrecca, Günther Lausch, Walter Chramosta, Tuesday Architecure 04Theme: IdentityThe Stadtbauamt was an… Lecture Tue 29.06.199919:00-21:00Tuesday Architecture 03Continuitieslectures by: Klaus Steiner, Irene Nierhaus, Roland Rainer, Siegfried MattlTuesday Architecture 03Theme: ContinuitiesAcross political rifts the centrally employed tenured civil… Presentation Fri 18.06.199919:00-21:00expressed - Speeches on architectureOtto Kapfinger"........ and if you should come across a tramway loop in Vienna, you would not have to think about it… Symposium Sat 29.05.199914:00-19:00SYNWORLD - playwork:hyperspace - The SymposiumModeration: * Faith Wilding(Artist and Theorist, Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University) 14:00 Opening 14:00-14:45 * John Casti(System theorist… Lecture Wed 13.01.199919:00-21:00Bibliotheque Nationale de FranceLecture by: Dominique PerraultDominique PerraultBibliothèque Nationale de FranceOn July 14, 1988, President Francois Mitterrand announced that he wanted to build the most modern… Presentation Fri 18.12.1998 – Wed 23.12.1998Book presentation - Christmas book-daysIn the field of tension of sound - space - time and structural buildingOpening: Thursday, December 17, 1998 at 7 p.m.Opening: Hannes Pflaum, Architekturzentrum WienEdelbert Köb, KUB - Kunsthaus Bregenz / vorarlberger architektur… Congress Fri 13.11.1998 – Sun 15.11.1998Sixth Vienna Architecture CongressWhere do we live? Where will we live?After the congresses on "Urbanisation" of the last few years the 6th Viennese Architecture Congress lays its focus on the… Presentation Sat 27.06.199817:00-00:00Fifth anniversarySummerfest - "Schnitt im Raum"The "Architekturzentrum Wien" is celebratingAt the fifth anniversary of the "Architekturzentrum Wien" the future of the presence of architecture will… Symposium Fri 19.06.1998 – Sat 20.06.1998The case of the Wittgenstein HouseAn international symposium on preservation of modernist monumentsBuildings of classical modernism - resulting from an attitude of radical innovation and a denial of traditions- are (provided that… Presentation Tue 26.05.199819:00-21:00Josef Frank and the housing todayBook presentation and discussionAlthough the architect Josef Frank is one of the most remarkable representatives of the Austrian modern architecture, until nowadays his… Lecture Wed 26.11.199719:00-21:00NO EN TRANSLATION Lecture Fri 07.11.199718:30-00:00"What ever happened to Urbanism?"The Pearl River Deltalecture by: Rem Koolhaas"What ever happened to Urbanism ?"was the question, the Architekturzentrum Wien addressed to the Dutch architect Rem… Congress Fri 07.11.1997 – Sun 09.11.1997Fifth Vienna Architecture CongressHEARTS OF EUROPE - Bypasses, Implants and Magnets for the CitiesThe Fifth Vienna Architecture Congress does not only intend to uncover the strategy behind the creation of a new city… Presentation Sat 25.10.1997 – Sat 01.11.1997Jan TurnovskyThe Beauty of the DetailEvent - Book presentation - Minimal exhibitionJan Turnovsky was a highly committed and unorthodox assistant at the Institute for Housing… Presentation Thu 09.10.199719:00-21:00(un)planbarWIEN, die letzten 10 JahreVisions of city architecture and what remains thereof:stunted realty - lush real estateBook PresentationWilhelm Kainrath>>Die Bandstadt<< - Vision of city… Congress Fri 15.11.1996 – Mon 18.11.1996Fourth Vienna Architecture CongressAgglomeration - European SprawlAs an introduction to the 4th Vienna Architecture Congress, urban and regional planners from various Austrian universities as well as… Seminar Sat 17.08.1996 – Sun 08.09.19967th Viennese Seminar on Architecture"Der Gürtel: city space - traffic zone"opening: September 17, 1996, 7 p.m. 5 project groups with the architects:- Max Dudler, Berlin- Carlos Gomez de Llarena, Caracas-… Presentation Mon 03.06.1996 – Thu 31.12.1998Visionaries in ExileA cultural journey from Austria to AmericaCD-ROM Presentation Visionaries in Exile is the first CD-ROM production focusing on Modern Architecture. It recalls the history of twenty… Presentation Tue 19.03.199619:00-21:00BauArt 4 / "Regionalismus und das Fremde" (German only)Buchpräsentation / Diavortrag"Raum denken"Die vierte Nummer einer Schriftenreihe, deren Beiträge sich mit Architektur, Städtebau, Grafik, Design und Kunst befassen. Der Themenbogen der… Presentation Tue 19.12.199519:00-21:00"Heinz Tesar"Book presentationThe presentation of the first volume of the series "Portraits of Austrian Architects" (Springer Verlag Wien New York), the presentation… Congress Thu 02.11.1995 – Sun 05.11.1995Third Vienna Architecture CongressCommon Places - Conventional Thoughts in the CHAOS of EUROPEopening: Thursday, November 2, 1995, 7:30 p.m. Scientists, experts, writers, and journalists diagnose a multi-facetted image of "general chaos" and… Lecture Mon 02.10.199519:00-21:00"The architecture of Herzog & de Meuron"lecture by: Jacques Herzog"The architecture of Herzog & de Meuron"The two architects from Basel have built significant and mysterious objects in the past… Symposium Fri 01.09.1995 – Sun 03.09.1995"THE Public Space"Symposiumopening: August 30, 1995, 7 p.m. Continuous attempts to organize the city as perfectly and functionally as possible has deteriorated… Seminar Sat 26.08.1995 – Sun 17.09.19956th Viennese Seminar on Architecture"THE public space"opening: September 26, 1995, 7 p.m. 6 project groups with the architects:- Mariano Bayón, Madrid, E- van Berkel, Amsterdam, NL-… Presentation Wed 28.06.199519:00-21:00Österreichische Architektur im 20. JahrhundertBook presentation -and summer festVolume III/2 on the 13th - 18th districts of Vienna, published by Residenz Verlag was presented to the public, and… Symposium Sat 25.02.1995 – Sun 26.02.1995"Visionaries in Exiles"Symposiumopening: February 25, 1995, 10 a.m. The symposium took place on the occasion of the exhibition with the same title… Congress Fri 04.11.1994 – Sun 06.11.19942nd Vienna Architecture CongressEuropean Architecture Todayopening: Thursday, November 04, 1994, 7:00 P.M. "There is New Architecture in Europe" was the title of the preface to… Presentation Mon 19.09.199419:00-21:00Architecture Examples EternitBook presentationOn the ocassion of the book presentation, the Eternit company handed over a cheque in the amount of 100.000,- Schilling… Seminar Sat 20.08.1994 – Sun 11.09.19945th Viennese Seminar on Architecture"Architecture of the Empty Space - Landscape Architecture"opening day: September 20, 1994, 7 p.m. The urban and peripheral open spaces of a city form part of the… Symposium Fri 01.07.1994 – Sun 10.07.1994"BildRaum" - "Survey of New York"Filmweek and Retrospectiveopening: June 30, 1994, 7 p.m. The city seen through the eye of a camera: no focus on the city… Symposium Tue 26.04.199419:00-21:00"Architecture and Tourism"SymposiumThrough lectures and positive examples, this symposium focused upon the "historical conflict" between tourism and contemporary architecture. This event was… Symposium Wed 20.04.199419:00-21:00"City in Profile" - "The Long Night of City Planning"SymposiumOn the occasion of the presentation of the book "Stadt im Durchschnitt" with texts by Leopold Redl, a "moderated examination"… Congress Thu 11.11.1993 – Sun 14.11.1993First Vienna Architecture CongressEuropean Architecture TodaySince the move of the 90-ies was a period of transition a panel of european experts will review past achievements… Symposium Wed 27.10.199319:00-21:00"West meets East"Panel discussionPanel discussion on the exhibition "West meets East"A confrontation of the states Vorarlberg and Burgenland. The topics were: urban sprawl,… Lecture Wed 06.10.199319:00-21:00"The backward oriented Utopia: Motor of Viennese progress in architecture?"lecture by: Prof. Friedrich Achleitner"The backward oriented Utopia: Motor of Viennese progress in architecture?"This lecture, opening the symposium "Fischer von Erlach and the Viennese… Symposium Wed 29.09.199319:00-21:00"Oaks & ArollasPanel discussionPanel discussion on the exhibition "Oaks & Arollas"For each of the two confrontations of states a panel discussion was organized… Seminar Sat 21.08.1993 – Sun 12.09.19934th Viennese Seminar on Architecture"Living and Culture"opening day: September 21, 1993, 7 p.m. In continuation of the themes of the 3rd Viennese Seminar on Architecture 1992,… Newer Entries