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The new Permanent Exhibition at the Architekturzentrum Wien: Going against the current trend for increasing economic constraints on their collections, the new Permanent Exhibition of the Az W sets standards in the production and sharing of knowledge.

With a total of 80,000 euros in prize money, the EU Mies Award is the premier European architecture prize. It is a seismograph for architectural developments in Europe and even for the inspirational capacity of the transformative potential of architecture.

This year, the popular series of events held in cooperation with the IBA_Vienna is dedicated to the topic of green spaces close to housing, and so to groundbreaking work in landscape architecture.

A cellar for cultivating mushrooms, a farm, schools or homes — there are so many different functions, forms and materiels to be found in the exhibition ‘Europe’s Best Buildings’. What are these funtions, and how are they combined? What are the raw materials used here? Inspired by the exhibition, we build models with our own mix of functions.

School buildings have to meet new requirements, both typologically and pedagogically. What space should and can schools provide today? This event highlights the relevance of educational buildings in the current edition of the Mies van der Rohe Award, and presents two buildings from the shortlist.

Studio urbanek and feld72 are opening the doors to their offices for Vienna Art Week. They provide an insight into their approaches and talk about standardisation and organisation as architectural challenges.

What solutions are available for dealing with the large stock of single-family houses? And what does "single family" even mean in times of patchwork families and diverse lifestyle models? Club Architektur brings the discussion about the supposedly simplest architectural typology to the stage with an interdisciplinary panel.

Exhibitions help establish the accepted cannon by influencing which works are talked about. For the first ever independent architecture biennial, under Paolo Portughesi in Venice, ‘The Presence of the Past’, postmodernism displayed an impressive presence. Hans Hollein’s contribution, which was characterised by stylistic flashbacks, and engaged ironically with the column by challenging its function as a supporting element, was one of the most convincing contributions to what was titled the Strada Novissima. The permanent exhibition at the Az W takes a fresh look at these and other legendary canon-establishing exhibitions, along with some that have been previously underestimated.