Baerbel Mueller

[A]FA Tamale Old Airfield | Urban Furnishing(s) This term, the [A]FA Tamale Old Airfield | Urban Furnishing(s) project enters a phase of realization, focusing on (Terrazzo) prototyping and construction development. Building on design work carried out over the previous semester, the lab continues as an ongoing design-build process leading toward the implementation of Urban Furnishing(s) between September and November 2026,… 2026W/2027S, Project-Based Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Baerbel Mueller

Acupuncturing Accra is a metropolitan-scale artistic research, mapping, and archiving project developed with the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Accra (FCA-Ghana), as part of ACCRA—one50 (2026–2027). Over the past term, selected I oA participants, together with Accra-based young architects and artists, collaboratively investigated three urban sites, one in each of three neighborhoods of Accra—Adabraka, Dansoman, and Madina. These open spaces function… 2026W/2027S, Academic Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Baerbel Mueller

[Applied] Foreign Affairs Integration provides pre-diploma students with a framework for incorporating an experimental, artistic, transcultural, and transdisciplinary approach into their (pre-)thesis work. The course is grounded in applied research (situated and outward-looking), encouraging students to leave their disciplinary and personal comfort zones by engaging with sites, situations, experts, local actors, and other forms of knowledge in relation to the… 2026W/2027S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Galo Patricio Moncayo Asan

Experimental Machines Adaptive Strategies is an experimental seminar centered on the conception, design, and fabrication of responsive machines and apparatuses that translate information, forces, or interactions into physical, visual, or sonic experiences. Students investigate how machines can become creative collaborators, capable of sensing, interpreting, and expressing phenomena that would otherwise remain invisible or unnoticed. Rather than designing objects for predetermined… 2026W, artistic Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Daniela Kröhnert

Digitally printed matter is often lacking the irregular, vivid and tactile qualities of analog drawings that are results of a plethora of parameters of the physical world and its materialities (i.a. bleeding or drying of the inkpen, smudges, scratches, humidity changes, etc.)This course intends to give students the possibility to explore the vast potential for unique and individual expression, which… 2027S, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Florian Medicus

2027S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Sophie Luger

This course introduces fundamental principles of sound generation and propagation, enabling participants to analyse and influence acoustic outcomes during the early stages of architectural design. It is intended for students interested in the built environment and its acoustic impact, examining historic and contemporary examples. Emphasis is placed on the interaction between sound, geometry, and materials, including frequency-dependent absorption characteristics and… 2026W, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Armin Hess

The course addresses a range of topics within digital imagery and CG production. Through the introduction of advanced tools, techniques, and productive experimentation, we will also engage with ongoing discussions around the digital realm, image sciences, and the iconic turn. A particular focus will be placed on artificial intelligence as a multimodal and collaborative tool for design, research, experimentation, and… 2026W, Academic Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Sophie Grell-Prix

ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING DESIGN An advanced design seminar that treats light as a spatial and conceptual design tool. Students examine the material, perceptual and psychological dimensions of light in theory and in practice, focusing on how light shapes form, sets atmosphere and gives a space its identity. The course covers lighting concepts from historical developments to current strategies: the evolution of… 2027S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Matthias Moroder

Making an architecture exhibition can be a way of changing the world as much as designing a building. Exhibitions operate in many ways. They can be statements or manifestos, or a means of staking a position. They can take the form of surveys or overviews, consolidating differences and similarities across forms of practice, themes, or periods.Exhibitions may be descriptive, analysing… 2026W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Sam Chermayeff

Studio Sam Chermayeff tests collective living through tensions of comfort and consumption, community and privacy, grid and no‑grid, focusing on urban housing as a place where habits, structures, and social life are constantly negotiated. We are proposing buildings. We work on housing projects in Vienna. How we inhabit, how we construct, how we relate? Architecture, in this sense, becomes a… 2026W/2027S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 15.0 ECTS

Fredrik Hellberg

Architecture as a field is larger than the canon that claims to define it. Through spatial practices that engage buildings and the worlds that surround, extend and reshape them, in this course we address the disciplinary transformation and expansion architecture is going through today. We pursue alternatives towards responsibility and solidarity in the ways we design, build and inhabit our… 2026W/2027S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 15.0 ECTS

Sam Jacob

Architecture as Representation. For architecture, representation is simultaneously a technical, cultural and political question. From drawings through models to buildings and beyond, the semester will explore architecture as a form of media itself. Thinking of architecture as representation allows us to explore its direct relations to culture, material and ideology. And so use work to ask questions about architecture's relationship… 2026W/2027S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 15.0 ECTS

Lara Lesmes

Architecture as a field is larger than the canon that claims to define it. Through spatial practices that engage buildings and the worlds that surround, extend and reshape them, in this course we address the disciplinary transformation and expansion architecture is going through today. We pursue alternatives towards responsibility and solidarity in the ways we design, build and inhabit our… 2026W/2027S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 15.0 ECTS

Matthias Boeckl

Selected episodes from Austrian architectural history in their international context. Topics in winter 2026/27: Modernism in Austria, 1918-1945 Lectures are given in German! Registration (starting 31 August 2026) via BASE required. The lecture course takes place on Zoom: https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/66976100943 Meeting-ID: 669 7610 0943 Images and texts from the lecture course are available at architekturgeschichte.at. Pass word will be conveyed in… 2026W, Lecture, 2.0 ECTS

Petra Gruber

The course Biodesign combines an introduction into biodesign/biomimicry/biomimetics with a design project, using nature as a model for creating innovative solutions. The lecture part contains an introduction into the history, terminology, methodologies and different research fields and activities, including basic principles of design in nature, biological structures and materials, and ecological aspects. The design part is a research-based development that… 2027S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Franz Sam

The lecture imparts expertise on the interplay of building parts in constructions, while taking into account selected building materials. The focus is concepts of “monomateriality” – i.e., one single material is used for creating the volume, the load-bearing structure and the skin of the building. Special attention is also given to the strains having an impact on the building and… 2026W, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Andreas Körner

This seminar investigates the building envelope as a dynamic system: skin, shell, membrane, screen and boundary. Students examine its thermal, structural and ecological functions, with particular attention to its dual role as an ornate boundary and interstitial environment. Relating to ongoing research at the department, the semester theme emphasises the dialectics of decay and decoration: material transformation over time through… 2027S, Academic Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Clemens Preisinger

2027S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Petra Gruber

The course accompanies Architectural Design 5 (the pre-diploma project). According to their individual interests, the students define a construction topic that supports and/or complements the studio's design brief. The architectural design is enriched by technical considerations. Experimental approaches that start from a careful examination of standard building methods and explore unconventional constructions are welcome. Suitable working methods are to be… 2026W/2027S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Franz Sam

The course accompanies Architectural Design 5 (the pre-diploma project). According to their individual interests, the students define a construction topic that supports and/or complements the studio's design brief. The architectural design is enriched by technical considerations. Experimental approaches that start from a careful examination of standard building methods and explore unconventional constructions are welcome. Suitable working methods are to be… 2026W, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Franz Sam

2027S, Field Trip / Excursion, 3.0 ECTS

Michael Wögerbauer

The course will introduce students to office-level project development and BIM (REVIT). Therefore, each student is asked to develop a small-scale project. Each seminar is structured in three parts: The first part consists of a short lecture giving insights into all planning phases, from competition to construction. During the second part, all aspects will be put into the context of… 2026W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Bernhard Sommer

Building physics constitutes a fundamental prerequisite for sound architectural design. Whether it pertains to the development of zero-carbon or energy-positive buildings, the imperative to ensure a healthy and sustainable built environment, or the capacity to complement, reinforce, and intrinsically inform architectural concepts, building physics remains an indispensable component of a rigorous and responsible design practice. The aim of the course… 2026W, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Camille Breuil

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane Goodall The urgent need for a new mindset within the building culture drives the core the Circular Strategies course. As our material world accounts… 2027S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Petra Gruber

„Constructing Worlds“ is a lecture series in Winter semester 2026/27 offered by the Department of Building Construction as a one-off course. The lecture series is about contemporary architecture that focuses on sustainable construction, carried out by offices or teams based in and around Vienna. The intention is to get an overview and allow insight into current practices in building construction… 2026W, Lecture Series with Workshop, 3.0 ECTS

Hans Lechner

2027S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Zeynep Aksöz Balzar

This course explores artificial intelligence as an artistic medium and a process of translation. Rather than treating AI as a black-box technology for generating finished outputs, students investigate how computational systems abstract, translate, and transform information—and how these translations can become part of their own artistic methodologies. Through hands-on experimentation, we will unpack the structures behind AI systems: how data… 2026W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Andrei Gheorghe

2027S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Baerbel Mueller

Ongoing Individual Dissertation ConsultationsExchanges on an individual basis by appointment. 2026W/2027S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Brian Cody

During the 2024–25 academic year, the thematic series “Sustainable … and Architecture” was introduced. Working at different levels of study, students developed conceptual strategies for a range of architectural challenges, e.g the design of patient rooms and nursing facilities. Their projects explored the adaptive reuse of existing office buildings or high-rise structures. Particular emphasis was placed on spatial reconfiguration, energy… 2026W, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Brian Cody

2027S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Bernhard Sommer

Physical and ecological realities permeate our designs and built works. These interdependencies must be understood, both to ensure sustainable construction and operation and to rethink architectural tasks so fundamentally that the typical problems of a growth-oriented economy do not arise in the first place. Never before have the possibilities for streategic thinking about architecture been greater—but also: never before have… 2026W/2027S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Eldine Heep

2027S, Project - bound Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Galo Patricio Moncayo Asan

The course does not focus on the development of the architectural proposal itself, but on the exploration of the methods through which that proposal is investigated, represented, communicated, and critically reflected upon. Working alongside their pre-diploma studio project, students develop an individual approach to architectural representation that supports and enriches their design process. Within the subject group Instrumentarium, representation is… 2026W/2027S, artistic Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Matthias Boeckl

Ongoing individual discussion and guidance of developing diploma thesis / of developing Pre-diploma-integration paper in architectural history. Dates by appointment. 2026W/2027S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Gregorio Lubroth

PART 1: The Street / Third Places The interior offers a unique opportunity to inhabit an encapsulated world, containing within it distilled ideas, fever dreams, hidden desires, mechanisms of control, dissonances, harmonies…a whole world that has been touched (and in turn touches us) through design in almost every way. But what is design? Is it something that we make or… 2026W, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Gregorio Lubroth

PART 2: Domestic Theaters The interior offers a unique opportunity to inhabit an encapsulated world, containing within it distilled ideas, fever dreams, hidden desires, mechanisms of control, dissonances, harmonies…a whole world that has been touched (and in turn touches us) through design in almost every way. But what is design? Is it something that we make or does it make… 2027S, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Matthias Boeckl

The lecture course investigates a selection of key episodes of the history of Western architecture that influenced architectural production until today. The most important innovation steps in their development are presented. The topics range from the "first house" via the consequences of the Copernican Revolution to the digital age. Topic in Summer 2027: Modernism in Austria, 1945-2000 Lecture course in… 2027S, Lecture, 2.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Ongoing individual discussion of for the development of a dissertation.  2026W/2027S, Colloquium, 4.0 ECTS

Matthias Boeckl

Ongoing individual discussion of developing dissertation. Dates by appointment. 2026W/2027S, Colloquium, 4.0 ECTS

Petra Gruber

The Colloquium accompanies Master- and Doctoral Theses in the thematic area of the Department for Building Construction, and serves for mentoring and support of students in the working process and in the elaboration of the contents. The colloquium offers various teaching formats as necessary, from individual discussion to common presentations and discussions across projects.  2026W/2027S, Colloquium, 4.0 ECTS

Wolf Mangelsdorf

One to one colloquium for Master and PhD students to discuss progress and get steerage for their master or PhD studies. The colloquium is tailored to the specific requirements of the studies. Arranged by appointment only.    2026W/2027S, Colloquium, 4.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

2027S, Academic Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Gerald Fuchs

2027S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Afshin Koupaei

Machining PRAXIS in Architecture (MPA) is a course series that explores the application of computer numerical control (CNC) machines, computational methods, and machine-oriented manufacturing techniques in architectural design and fabrication. Each year, the two consecutive MPA courses focus on a specific core subject, through which students engage with the course objectives across two semesters. Core subjects are selected based on… 2026W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Afshin Koupaei

Machining PRAXIS in Architecture 2 builds upon the concepts and knowledge introduced in MPA 1 and provides students with the opportunity to apply a computational and/or machine-oriented technique to their own architectural projects. Utilizing machining and computational technologies not only as means of making but also as instruments of design lies at the core of the MPA course series. In… 2027S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Valerie Messini

2027S, Project Work, 2.0 ECTS

Bence Pap

2027S, Project Work, 2.0 ECTS

Anja Jonkhans

As part of the instruction on the theoretical fundamentals of plan drafting, building codes and standards, as well as the process of a construction project, are discussed. Subsequently, a set of plans (submission plans) is prepared. The basis for the next steps is the collaborative creation of a dimensioning drawing for a specific room. 2026W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS