The Permanent Exhibition at the Architekturzentrum Wien from 03.02.2022, daily 10:00-19:00 Adolf Krischanitz, Otto Steidle, Herzog & de Meuron: Pilotengasse housing estate, 1220 Vienna, 1987–1992, model of the elements by Krischanitz © Architekturzentrum Wien,...
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Suburbia: Living the American Dream
Suburbia traces the history of an ideal of life that – starting in the US suburbs – conquered the world and is incessantly reproduced by popular media. At the same time, the exhibition analyzes the contradictions of this model and its social and ecological...
Architekturzentrum Wien: Toourism
The exhibition sheds light on key aspects of tourism, such as mobility, city tourism, interdependencies with agriculture, climate change, the privatisation of natural beauty and the change in accomodation typologies, and explores the question of whether and how tourism development is planned.
Sculpting Harmony
The digital exhibition features more than 150 models, sketches, and archival photographs documenting the concert hall’s development.
Power
The exhibition and accompanying program challenges viewers to consider how contemporary infrastructure relates to everyday life across intersecting concerns, including political institutions, citizen participation, geopolitics, energy transition, and climate justice.
Stones Between the Fronts: Anti-Fascist Monuments on the Territory of Former-Yugoslavia
Once standing for solidarity among the populations of the republics and autonomous provinces, now the monuments are a testament to political and social disunity. Disputes and wars have made differences visible in the new nation states, contributing to conflicts based on ethnicity, nationalist sentiment and religious allegiance.
German Colonial Building Cultures in 100 Primary Sources
The exhibition explores how print media of the time – from colonial daily newspapers to specialist architectural journals, from travel reports and guidebooks to (auto)biographies by/of German colonists – put German colonial architecture ‘into words and images’.
A House in Istanbul by Architect Bruno Taut
The exhibition examines Bruno Taut’s self-designed house in Istanbul, which is internationally acknowledged as a shared cultural heritage.
Architects at Play
The exhibition introduces the encounter between two figures: that of the architect and that of the child, and explores a series of worlds imagined through their interaction.
Style Congo. Heritage & Heresy
The exhibition visually chronicles the representation of Congo in international expositions held between 1885 and 1958, using Art Nouveau as its anchor point.
Yasmeen Lari: Architecture for the Future
Yasmeen Lari is Pakistan’s first woman architect. She designed iconic modernist buildings before initiating a zero-carbon self-build movement for the poorest of the poor.
eden-eden. Renato Rizzi
The exhibition presents about two hundred gypsum models related to thirty projects by Renato Rizzi.