Afshin Koupaei

The Machining PRAXIS in Architecture (MPA) course series explores the applications of computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines and machining technologies in architectural design and fabrication. Each year, a core subject is chosen to define the framework of the course. Core subjects are selected based on their relevance to architectural design and their potential for further investigation in real-scale architectural projects.… 2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Afshin Koupaei

This course emphasises the use of advanced machining technologies in architectural design and making. Utilising machining not only as a method for fabrication but also as a design apparatus is at the core of Machining PRAXIS in Architecture. Students will build upon the knowledge acquired through their individual experiments in MPA-1 to design, develop, and fabricate upscaled installations or mock-ups.… 2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Valerie Messini

SEMINAR DESCRIPTION Does architecture always need to be physical? What ways of spatial expression, notation, extension and new awareness can be achieved and designed through media? And what role could AR play in (re)programming and extending existing spaces, in exhibition design, performance spaces or within the confinements of our own habitat? In this course we will investigate possibilities of virtual… 2026S, Projektarbeit, 2.0 ECTS

Bence Pap

SEMINAR DESCRIPTION Does architecture always need to be physical? What ways of spatial expression, notation, extension and new awareness can be achieved and designed through media? And what role could AR play in (re)programming and extending existing spaces, in exhibition design, performance spaces or within the confinements of our own habitat? In this course we will investigate possibilities of virtual… 2026S, Projektarbeit, 2.0 ECTS

Anja Jonkhans

Vermittlung der theoretischen Grundlagen der Plandarstellung, der Bauvorschriften und Normen sowie des Ablaufs eines Bauvorhabens. Anschließend erfolgt die Planausführung anhand eines kleinen architektonischen Projekts (Einreichplan) für die Baubehörde.   2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Eldine Heep

Die Vorlesung beschäftigt sich mit der Konstruktion von Raum, mit besonderem Fokus auf Innenräume. In einer Kombination aus theoretischen Inputs und Exkursionen zu realisierten Projekten wird der gesamte Entwurfsprozess an der Schnittstelle von Architektur und Design nachvollziehbar gemacht. Vor Ort erläutern die jeweils verantwortlichen Architekt*innen und Designer*innen ihre Projekte und gewähren Einblicke in Konzept, Planung und Umsetzung. Den Abschluss bildet… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Anousheh Kehar

The course engages with practices shaping and reconfiguring worlds through environmental, social, cultural, and aesthetic productions. Thinking with films, poetry, writing and other forms of artistic works across disciplines, the course aims to shift attention to analyses and imaginaries rooted in building and rebuilding (infra)structures “required for living.” This course will take place as a process of collective learning –… 2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 1.5 ECTS

Maja Ozvaldic

The course engages with practices shaping and reconfiguring worlds through environmental, social, cultural, and aesthetic productions. Thinking with films, poetry, writing and other forms of artistic works across disciplines, the course aims to shift attention to analyses and imaginaries rooted in building and rebuilding (infra)structures “required for living.” This course will take place as a process of collective learning –… 2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 1.5 ECTS

Anton Falkeis

The course will continue with the research topic of the previous term. A collection of analyses and climate change adaptation strategies, developed over the course of the year, will be part of a publication. Special Topics in Architecture Design Organized as an experimental studio, the program centers around questions of climate change and its interactions with the built environment. Against… 2025W/2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Wolf Mangelsdorf

First part of the seminar is a compact lecture series, which will provide a fast paced recap and overview of the principles of structural design and its application using well know illustrative examples. Following that, students will, in group work, analyze the structural systems and performance of a suitable built example - We will provide a choice of buildings for… 2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Wolf Mangelsdorf

This year's Structural Design B will focus on the Opel fabrication facility in Aspern and investigate how to adaptively reuse this large structure. With the input from Prof Ute Schneider of TU Wien, the first part of the semester you willfocus on the assessment of the existing building, a 136,000 sqm large former factory, its structural system and capacities and… 2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Andrei Gheorghe

In the following you find outlined what we expect from the integration of structural design into your project and from your submission. Each student is free to give certain aspects of the integration of structural design priority. However, there should equally be consistency in the level of conceptual structural design across the entire project. Structure is a key part of… 2025W/2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Wolf Mangelsdorf

In the following you find outlined what we expect from the integration of structural design into your project and from your submission. Each student is free to give certain aspects of the integration of structural design priority. However, there should equally be consistency in the level of conceptual structural design across the entire project. Structure is a key part of… 2025W/2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Wolf Mangelsdorf

The production of most of our current building materials requires large amounts of energy and produces unsustainable levels of carbon emissions. What are the emerging alternatives? What are the new materials that are being researched and tested? More importantly, what impact do they have on the tectonics of our buildings. What are the structural constraints and opportunities, and what does… 2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Bernhard Sommer

Beschriebung:Die gebaute Umwelt einschließlich menschlicher Aktivitäten stellt ein hochkomplexes System dar. Aufgrund dieser Komplexität existiert kein abschließendes oder allgemein gültiges Bewertungsschema zur Beurteilung der ökologischen Verträglichkeit von Gebäuden oder städtebaulichen Entwicklungen. Stattdessen steht eine Vielzahl notwendigerweise unvollkommener Bewertungsmodelle zur Verfügung, die jeweils unterschiedliche Aspekte von Nachhaltigkeit adressieren. Das Seminar führt in ökologische Bewertungsansätze ein, die für den architektonischen Entwurfsprozess relevant… 2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Clemens Preisinger

In diesem Seminar beschäftigen wir uns mit der Anwendung numerischer Simulationsmethoden und den mathematisch - physikalischen Grundlagen auf welchen diese basieren. Der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt liegt im Bereich der Tragwerksanalyse und Finite Elemente Berechnung. Nach einer Einführung in die grundlegenden Prinzipien der Computerprogrammierung erfolgt die Erstellung selbstgeschriebener Simulationsroutinen. 2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Theory of Arch 1 presents a survey of architectural theory from around 1970ies to this day, with an emphasis on contemporary developments since the nineties. The course will focus on questions of disciplinarity, form, mediums and media, as well as political, environmental and technological issues facing architecture today. In order to trace the transformation of thought, we will discuss each… 2025W, Vorlesung und Diskussion, 2.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Theory of Architecture 2 will focus on the agency of architecture and the role of the architect as producer. How is the discipline of architecture constructed and reconstructed as architects address what is cnsidred to be outside the domain of architecture?  What is the role of the architectural imagination confronting contemporary issues and social problems?  2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Ongoing group and individual discussions for developing the students' individual diploma projects in architecture with a focus on architectural theory.  2025W/2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Andrea Börner

WASTELANDS The course investigates the diverse connotations and contradictory relations of wastelands to living spaces. In lecture, reading and seminar, and by means of individual narrations, we adopt all sorts of possible, and maybe impossible, vantage points of exploration demonstrated by actual situations the world currently produces. 2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Florian Medicus

Introduction into 'Structural Design' as an essential aspect of materialization in general, and fundamental  application within Industrial Design. 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Andrea Börner

The course looks at different scales of urbanized landscapes, questioning the relationship between densely built cores and seemingly supportive hinterlands. In lectures, readings and seminar, and by means of selected examples, common paradigms of spatial organizational principles are critically reflected in order to reassess their relevance  with regard to current dynamics.   2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Andrea Börner

Urban Strategies Integration provides a framework for articulating and deepening an urban / landscape aspect of the pre-diploma project. In group discussions and individual meetings, students are guided through the process of formulating and testing a hypothesis by anchoring their reasoning in related discourses on a relevant focus of their choice. Note: Individual projects do not have to tackle large-scale… 2025W/2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 3.0 ECTS