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Land is our most valuable resource. The Earth has a finite surface. A careless or purely capital-driven treatment of this resource has changed the design and function of our towns and villages in the past decades.

Austrian Architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries at Architekturzentrum Wien.

On their tour, the spatial planner Sibylla Zech and the architect Renate Hammer focus on the challenges and opportunities involved in cooperation between architecture and spatial planning. In doing so they highlight both paradoxical situations and key Austrian land-use planning measures for the future.

The Viennese border is 136.5 kilometres long: a political administrative construct with a far-reaching impact. Why do the strategies of the City of Vienna planning authority (Wiener Stadtplannung) hardly go beyond this line? Why does spatial planning also end in Lower Austria exactly at the border sign, and what are the consequences of this double-blindness for the outskirts of Vienna?

The Az W series Bread & Roses asks, with the Corona Crisis as the background, what we need for a good life, and dedicates the third event in the series to schools. Experts in the fields of architecture, pedagogy and neurobiology shed light on the issue of the free development of young people and the role architecture plays here.