Architekturzentrum Wien — Attraction in Vienna

High quality permanent exhibition, covering a wide range of history to the current state of Austrian Architecture.

The exhibits are extremely well presented and are fully bi-lingual. That being said some of the models felt a bit outdated and or student generated. Nothing wrong with this, but this may be an opportunity to introduce updates with new advances with a focus on region wide energy reduction, a focus on embodied carbon, next generation urban housing plans for Vienna 2050. Might be worth presenting BIM and parametric design and AI in today's industry vs an Apple IIe from 1991.

The rotating exhibition next door (included in ticket) Suburbia was more relevant, and while it provides solutions to existing housing for hyper local Austrian house remodels and splitting units it misses the opportunity to recommend sweeping improvements through reduced regulations, incentives on mixed use development, and even adaptive reuse of malls into community centers, housing, or activy hubs with the intent to bring smart density and even wider societal change to Austria, United States and beyond!

Interestingly as a US citizen I agree with all of the facts and outcomes presented in Suburbia, that being said the examples felt very myopic and almost intentionally sensational. I live in a row house community with an adjacent urban village; library, grocery, light rail, and regional trail network.

Added thoughts; AC was not functioning properly on my visit. Charging more for an audio tour on top of €12 seems excessive. If you only have time for one museum, Wien Museum is far more interesting and 6x larger - although not architecture specific it is very informative and...

The main exhibit focuses on the history of Austrian architecture. It's a modest-sized exhibit that you can go through it within an hour or so. The exhibit is offered in both German and English.

What stole the show was the temporary exhibit about tourism. As tourism has become more accessible than ever, it's a pivotal subject to address. The exhibit went over many aspects of tourism such as transportation, hospitality, waste, etc. The exhibit explores these subjects addressing the problems they create, and potential solutions using examples from around Europe. It encourages the visitor to become more conscious about tourism and the impact it has on the destination. The temporary exhibit is primarily only in German with books available with translations in foreign languages.

Even if you aren't the biggest fan of architecture I would highly recommend researching which temporary exhibit is being offered because it very well may be...

Founded in 1993, the Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) has been located in Vienna's Museumsquartier since 2001 and is run as an exhibition, event and research centre on architecture and building culture. The topics are architecture and urban development of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Az W was managed from 1993 to 2016 by Dietmar Steiner, director, and Karin Lux, managing director. Steiner retired at the end of 2016. He was succeeded by Angelika Fitz in 2017.

The Architekturzentrum Wien is financed by the Federal Chancellery of Austria and the City of Vienna, represented by the municipal departments 7 (Culture) and 18 (Urban Development...