Program

Denise Scott Brown has shaped the development of architecture over the last 50 years. High time for the world's first extensive solo exhibition on the work of this 87-year-old architect, urban planner, educator, and writer.

2018 is the year of the 200th birthday of Karl Marx (1819–1893). In the series of international reflections on the topical relevance of Marx's ideas we provide a special contribution to the history of his impact on architecture.

‘Downtown Denise Scott Brown’ celebrates Scott Brown’s ideas and impact by creating an ersatz urban environment in the Architekturzentrum Wien’s exhibition hall – a fantasy fountain square with imaginary shops and signs celebrating the wide universe of Scott Brown’s life and work. Exuberant ‘shop windows’ display archival objects, photographs, collages, quotations, plans, and videos.

A film by Adrian Dorschner and Thomas Beyer – To accompany the exhibition "Downtown Denise Scott Brown"

The development of rural space is an urgent global challenge. Best practice examples from China show which strategies the young Beijing architect Xu Tiantian adopts to counter the rural exodus in the region of Songyang.