MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A FANTASTIC 2021 from Architect and Friends!

After a year that nobody would have expected, we are still positive about 2020! The Modermism Week in Palm Springs in February, a few months in Austria last spring, a relatively relaxed summer in Italy, great projects completed and fantastic new ones started – it wasn’t bad despite everything! We hope that in 2021 many……

Land for us all! Really?

In view of the fact that Austria is one of the largest “wasters” of land in the world, the question arises whether a trend reversal is still possible due to years of exploitation. From fake second homes in the Alps to abandoned, unused industrial areas in the eastern part of Austria to various other “ruins”, everything……

So what’s happening at AzW in Vienna after their big success with SOS Brutalism?

Following SOS Brutalism a great new exhibition will open to the public on Thursday, August 23rd, 2018: Europe’s best Buildings The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Mies van der Rohe Award 2017 What are the best European buildings? Following the years of a boom in museums, for the first time the prizes are being……

New exhibition: Form follows Rule @ Az W Vienna

Architecture is often constrained, dictated or overregulated by building codes and other rules in many different ways but who has ever asked users or inhabitants of today’s architecture and urban development if they really want to spend their lives like this! A new exhibition at Vienna’s Az W brings this overregulation to the fore: Laws,……

In the End: Architecture – Journeys through Time (1959 – 2019)

While in Vienna, Austria a visit at the Architekturzentrum Wien is always a great idea to meet local architects and to get an update of the latest in Austrian architecture.  Last Thursday the exhibition “In the End: Architecture” opened to the public which marks a milestone in AzW’s history honoring it’s retiring founding director Dietmar……