Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo
What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? The exhibition “Abundance Not Capital” presents the work of Indian-born architect…
Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
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Opening of the exhibition Wed 17.09.2025
19:00-22:00
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Lecture & Discussion Thu 04.09.2025
18:00-20:00"You Can't Build Clouds"*
Ranjit Hoskote sees utopia as "a leitmotif of modern architectural thinking." How do built utopias live up to their expectations?…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025 Wed 20.08.2025
20:30Get together! Models of Togetherness
Film nights in the Az W courtyard
Bürger*innenKRAFTwerk — the story of an energy community, AT 2024, 8:00 min, ov with English subtitles, D: Yilmaz Vurucu, Bahanur…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
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Workshop (7–12)
Booked up Mon 18.08.2025 – Fri 22.08.2025
08:00–17:00Oases in the City
Sommerakademie
Plants, trees and green spaces in the city are enormously important to us for recreation, cooling and for protection from…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
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Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025 Wed 13.08.2025
20:30From the Front Garden to the Motorway
Film nights in the Az W courtyard
Split Lives, HK 2021, 5:23 min, ov with English subtitles, D: Joshua Bolchover, John LinIn China today, urbanisation and standardised…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
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Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025 Wed 06.08.2025
20:30Peak Oil — To the Last Drop?
Film nights in the Az W courtyard
Nenets vs Gas, FR/BE/FI/NO 2023, 52:00 min, ov with English subtitles, D: Sergio GhizzardiThe Yamal Peninsula in the heart of…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
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Guided tour by the curators Tue 05.08.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025 Wed 30.07.2025
20:30American Dreams
Film nights in the Az W courtyard
Tupperware, an American marketing phenomenon, US 2003, 58:33 min, Eov, D: Laurie Kahn-LeavittTupperware: a plastic product, a company and a…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
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Filmfestival Wed 30.07., 06.08., 13.08., 20.08.
from 20:30Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025
Suburbia. From the American Dream to Peak Oil
The thirteenth edition of the international film festival invites all you film and architecture buffs to drop in, hang out,…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard -
Guided tour by the curators
Booked up Tue 29.07.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Workshop (6–10) Wed 02.07.2025
at 10:00 or at 13:00LEGO städtchen drumherum
Sommerferienspiel
We visit the suburbs in the exhibition 'Suburbia. Living the American Dream'. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Exhibition guided tour Tue 01.07.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Workshop (6–10) Tue 01.07.2025
at 10:00 or at 13:00LEGO städtchen drumherum
Sommerferienspiel
We visit the suburbs in the exhibition 'Suburbia. Living the American Dream'. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium -
Workshop (6–10) Mon 30.06.2025
at 10:00 or at 13:00LEGO städtchen drumherum
Sommerferienspiel
We visit the suburbs in the exhibition 'Suburbia. Living the American Dream'. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium -
Workshop (0–99) Sun 29.06.2025
11:00-17:00LEGO construction site
On the first Sunday of the school holidays there is space at the Az W for the big LEGO building…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
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Excursion
Booked up Fri 27.06.2025
15:00-17:00Intermissions in Heaven
In order to meet today's safety requirements and technical standards, the auditorium and stage house of the Theater an der…Location: Theater an der Wien
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Lecture & Discussion Wed 25.06.2025
18:00-20:00House Europe! Power to Renovation
How Can a Shift in Approach to Building Be Successful in Vienna, Austria and Europe?
As of today, 25% of buildings in Europe have been renovated. The annual renovation rate of 1% would have to…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Guided tour in dialogue Tue 24.06.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia. Living the American Dream
With Barbara Perfahl, housing and architectural psychologist, Linz
Are People Really Happier Living in a House?Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Presentation & Discussion Wed 18.06.2025
18:00-20:00Kharkiv – Vienna: Conversations on the Productive City
Owing to the Russian incursion, the 2023 Kyiv Biennial was hosted in Vienna. In this context, the IG Architektur launched…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Guided tour by the curators Tue 17.06.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Lecture & Response Wed 11.06.2025
18:00-20:00Built Role Models
To accompany the exhibition 'Suburbia'
The architect Jan Engelke describes the detached house as a "sexist form of housing". The lecture and response shed light…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Exhibition guided tour Tue 03.06.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Guided tour in dialogue Tue 27.05.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia. Living the American Dream
With Andreas Novy, Socio-Economist at the Vienna University of Economics and Business
There's Enough Living Space — It's Just Badly Distributed.Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Excursion Fri 23.05.2025
15:00-18:00A Place to Harvest the Sun
A new urban quarter with an educational campus, apartments and an intergenerational centre was built along the Westbahn in 2022,…Location: Deutschordenstraße 4
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Excursion
Booked up Fri 16.05.2025
15:00-18:00Living in the Vienna Woods Clearing
The Other Suburbia: The Doktorberg housing estate by Carl Auböck and Harry Glück was already celebrated by the press when…Location: Doktorberg
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Lecture & Panel discussion Wed 14.05.2025
18:00-20:00Living in Suburbia
How the American Dream Came to Austria — To Stay
Since the corona pandemic, living in the suburbs has once again become increasingly popular: having your own house in the…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium -
Guided tour by the curators Tue 13.05.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Workshop (9–99) Sa 10.05., 12:00 & 15:00
Static Phenomena
Archikids
Sometimes it makes sense to turn things upside down. For example, Antoni Gaudí develops complex structures with the aid of…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Exhibition guided tour Tue 06.05.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Event Thu 01.05.2025
10:00-19:00Open Door at the Az W
Free admission all day
As guests of the Architekturzentrum Wien Architecture Lounge, on 1 May admission is free for everybody interested in architecture. The…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
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Guided tour by the curators
Booked up Tue 29.04.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Excursion
Booked up Fri 25.04.2025
15:00-17:00The Housing Complex as Path and Place
Spatial diversity, experiential space and intimacy with large-scale construction projects and high density requirements are something of a speciality of…Location: Breitenfurter Straße 233
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Talk Show Wed 23.04.2025
18:00-20:00Club Architektur #15
The Heat Stress Test. Survival Strategies for Climate Change in the City
High temperatures put stress on us all. According to experts, heat presents the greatest risk to health among the impacts…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Guided tour in dialogue Tue 22.04.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia. Living the American Dream
With Bernadette Redl, Journalist, Der Standard
Bernadette Redl, who has conducted extensive research and published widely on the subject of single-family houses appreciates that, "for many…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Workshop (6–99)
Booked up Sat 12.04.2025
15:00-17:00LEGOhouse for the Simpsons
Archikids
The Simpsons live in a single-family house on a greenfield site in a typical American suburb. Is it really that…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Vienna Elections 2025 Wed 09.04.2025
18:00-20:00Developing the City of The Future
A discussion of urban redevelopment policy in Vienna
Before the Vienna Council elections in 2025, the representatives of the different Parties discuss their concepts for the development of…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Exhibition guided tour Tue 08.04.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Award ceremony, lecture and discussion Tue 01.04.2025
18:00-20:00At the Az W: Better Housing for the Majority — but how?
The Bruno Kreisky Prize for Social-Ecological Housing and Communal Living
The Bruno Kreisky Prize for Socio-Ecological Housing 2024 goes to the book ‘Cooperative Conditions. A Primer on Architecture, Finance and…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Presentation & Discussion Wed 26.03.2025
18:00-20:00When the Kids Move Out
The Future of the Single-family Home
A single-family house is the dream home and the everyday experience for most Austrians. The majority of the 1.53 million…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Exhibition guided tour Tue 25.03.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Excursion
Booked up Fri 21.03.2025
15:00-18:00Sargfabrik Atzgersdorf new
The City of Vienna has developed a new, dense urban quarter with cooperatives and a private real estate company on…Location: Breitenfurter Straße 176
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Guided tour in dialogue
Booked up Tue 18.03.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia. Living the American Dream
With Lena Schartmüller, Barbara Steinbrunner; Institut für Raumplanung, TU Wien
In Austria, people's dream home is still a freshly built, free-standing house for the family. This idea persists even though…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Workshop (6–99) Sat 15.03.2025
15:00-17:00LEGOhouse for the Simpsons
Archikids
The Simpsons live in a single-family house on a greenfield site in a typical American suburb. Is it really that…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium -
Guided tour by the curators
Booked up Tue 11.03.2025
17:30-18:30Suburbia
Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Opening of the exhibition Wed 05.03.2025
19:00-22:00Suburbia
Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien -
Workshop (6–12)
Booked up Sat 08.02.2025
10:00–12:00 oder 13:00–15:00Dream Holidays Built of LEGO
Semesterferienspiel
More and more people are traveling more often, further and for shorter stays. But it is the journey to and…Location: Kulturgarage
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Workshop (6–12)
Booked up Fri 07.02.2025
10:00–12:00 oder 13:00–15:00Dream Holidays Built of LEGO
Semesterferienspiel
More and more people are traveling more often, further and for shorter stays. But it is the journey to and…Location: Kulturgarage -
Guided tour Tue 14.01.2025
17:30-18:30Europe’s Best Buildings
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Mies van der Rohe Awards 2024
The EUMies Awards Prize, endowed with 90,000 euros in prize money (60,000 Main Award / 30,000 Emerging Architecture Award), is…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2
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Workshop (6–12)
Booked up Fri 03.01.2025
10:00–12:00 oder 13:00–15:00Let’s Build Europe’s Best LEGO Buildings
Winterferienspiel
There are many different uses and forms to be found in the exhibition ‘Europe’s best Buildings’, including a mystical garden…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Workshop (6–12)
Booked up Thu 02.01.2025
10:00–12:00 oder 13:00–15:00Let’s Build Europe’s Best LEGO Buildings
Winterferienspiel
There are many different uses and forms to be found in the exhibition ‘Europe’s best Buildings’, including a mystical garden…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium -
Call for Films: Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025 Thu 12.12.2024 – Wed 22.01.2025
Suburbia. From American Dream to Peak Oil
NEW Deadline for submissions: 22.01.2025
For the 13th edition of the international open air architecture film festival in the courtyard of the Architekturzentrum Wien in…
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Talk Show Wed 04.12.2024
18:00-20:00Club Architektur #14
Quo vadis, A City of Two Million? How Do We Want to Live and Who Do We Want to Be?
Vienna has two million inhabitants (again), since last year. But what does being a cosmopolitan City Entail?Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Guided tour Tue 03.12.2024
17:30-18:30Europe’s Best Buildings
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Mies van der Rohe Awards 2024
The EUMies Awards Prize, endowed with 90,000 euros in prize money (60,000 Main Award / 30,000 Emerging Architecture Award), is…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Event Series Wed 27.11.2024
18:00-20:00Use That Empty Space!
Opportunities for the activation of vacant space in Vienna
A series of three events held at WEST, Alte WU, with one evening dedicated to vacant space in residential buildings,…Location: WEST. Alte WU, Festsaal
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Symposium Fri 22.11., 15:00–20:00, Az W Podium & Sat 23.11., 09:00–13:00, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Anatomiesaal
Ambivalences of Modernity
The Architect and Urban Planner Roland Rainer Between Dictatorship and Democracy
How did modernist architecture interact with political systems? And how can biographical gaps in architectural archives be explained and filled?…
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Workshop (6–99)
Booked up Sat 16.11.2024
15:00-17:00Archikids: Let's Build Europe's Best LEGO Buildings
There are many different uses and forms to be found in the exhibition 'Europe's best Buildings', including a mystical garden…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Lectures & Discussion Wed 13.11.2024
18:00-20:00Best of Austria – Best of Europe
Award meets award! An evening presenting the latest edition of the publication 'Best of Austria', drawing attention to the achievements…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Collection for All Mon 11.11.2024
17:30-18:30Hot Questions – Cold Storage
Guided tour of the permanent exhibition, for blind and visually impaired people
A guided tour of the permanent collection, for the blind and the visually impaired. Feeling models and various surfaces with…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 1
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Event Series Fri 08.11.2024
18:00-20:00Use That Empty Space!
Opportunities for the activation of vacant space in Vienna
A series of three events held at WEST, Alte WU, with one evening dedicated to vacant space in residential buildings,…Location: WEST. Alte WU, Festsaal -
Excursion
Booked up Fri 08.11.2024
15:00-17:30Studio Visits
As part of the Vienna Art Week
A visit to two architecture firms that take the liberty, in different ways, of defining their profession and working methods…Location: Rüdigergasse 8
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Symposium Thu 07.11.2024
16:00-20:00Long Live the City!
Circular building upon the Existing
This news is not new, while it is alarming: Construction releases large amounts of CO2, destroys biodiversity, consumes non-renewable resources…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Guided tour Tue 05.11.2024
17:30-18:30Europe’s Best Buildings
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Mies van der Rohe Awards 2024
The EUMies Awards Prize, endowed with 90,000 euros in prize money (60,000 Main Award / 30,000 Emerging Architecture Award), is…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Exhibition hall 2 -
Closing event „Out of the Box“ Mon 04.11.2024
17:30-19:00Let’s talk Design
With Veronika Müller, architectural historian, assistant professor, culture of building / cultural heritage at the KU Linz and Harald Gründl,…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Opening of the Collection Depot & Research Center Thu 31.10.2024
17:00-20:00Back to the Future
The NEW Az W Collection Depot
Risk a glance inside the belly of our knowledge repository!Location: Az W Sammlungsdepot & Research Center, Werk Möllersdorf
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Event Sat 26.10.2024
10:00-19:00Open Door at the Az W
Free admission all day
As guests of the Architekturzentrum Wien Architecture Lounge, on 26 October admission is free for everybody interested in architecture. The…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien
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Event Series Wed 23.10.2024
18:00-20:00Use That Empty Space!
Opportunities for the activation of vacant space in Vienna
A series of three events held at WEST, Alte WU, with one evening dedicated to vacant space in residential buildings,…Location: WEST. Alte WU, Festsaal -
Out of the Box ‒ a discussion series Wed 16.10.2024
17:30-19:00Let’s talk Home Ambience
With Eva Badura-Triska, art historian and curator at WAM (Vienna Actionism Museum) and Thomas Fillitz, social and cultural anthropologist, inhabitants…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
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Event Sat 05.10.2024
18:00–01:00ORF The Long Night of Museums
Once again the Az W is participating in the ORF nationwide event for museums, The Long Night of Museums. Night…Location: Architekturzentrum Wien