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What does methodologically nuanced, pluralistic research in architectural history look like? How does it work in practice? Can only contemporary theories such as gender, queer, and de- and postcolonial studies grasp their approaches? What does the epistemology of modernity nevertheless achieve? Or is the concept of academic research changing – and with it the entire epistemic system upon which architectural history also rests? Do AI models help or hinder this reorientation? And how can these considerations be incorporated into teaching in concrete terms?

These and other questions are to be raised – and perhaps also answered – in the Lecture Series for the 2026/2027 academic year at the Institute of Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Architectural historians from various backgrounds who are engaged with these questions will be invited to present and discuss their research approaches from this perspective.

Theories of Teaching Architectural History
IKA Lecture Series 2026/2027
Curated by Angelika Schnell

17.10, 30.11., 14.12.2026
Schillerplatz 3, Room 211a
Lectures at 19 h each
Language: English

📸Design by Hannah Sakai and Nik Thoenen

@ika.studios.akbild #akbild by @ika.studios.akbild

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3 days ago

Next “What’s Next?” lecture:

30.06.
19:00
R211a & courtyard

Afterwards: DJs and chill party

Paula Strunden is a transdisciplinary artist, architect, and researcher working at the intersection of architecture, XR, and embodied spatial experience. Her practice explores how immersive environments can expand perception and bring together the physical and the imagined. She holds a Dr. techn. in architecture and is currently an ETH Postdoctoral Fellow at Gramazio Kohler Research, following professional experience at Herzog & de Meuron and Raumlabor Berlin. Her work has been exhibited and commissioned internationally, including at MUNCH Oslo, the Royal Academy London, Museum der Moderne Salzburg and Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam. She is the founder of @xratlas, a platform dedicated to feminist perspectives in XR, expanding the field through oral histories of female VR pioneers and dialogue across disciplines.

https://www.paulastrunden.com/

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Music by Lina Bo Bandi

DJs: auch & kk4rbon, Free65

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lecture & concert followed by food, drinks & small party!

image credits:

slide 1…
Collage by Grete Stern
Paula Strunden, Mirrorworlds, MAGAZIN Vienna, Foto: Richard Pobaschnig, 2025. by @ika.studios.akbild

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4 months ago

During their visit to see the works of the legendary Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, BArch4 and MArch students gathered videos and photographs, which they will be exhibiting on 15 June at 7 pm in room 211a at Schillerplatz. The Bachelor’s students have created films presenting Palladio’s architecture in a stylised and analytical manner. Photographs of each of the buildings visited will be pinned up in the screening room. The Master’s students will be showing ten selected images taken during the excursion, which they will present in room 209. Visconti’s film Senso will be shown in room 210.
Food and drinks will be provided.
Join us to make this an unforgettable evening! by @ika.studios.akbild

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4 months ago

Lecture tonight!

Falafel and Hummus, drinks and conversations afterwards

Project: Krater Model - Toward Urban Ecological Regeneration through Culture
Lecture by Krater Collective
Part of the Lecture Series: Hands On - Urban Landscape Practices in Europe II

Monday, June 8th
19:00
Room 211A
IKA - Academy of fine Arts
Schillerplatz 3,
1010 Vienna by @ika.studios.akbild

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4 months ago

Next “What’s Next?” double lecture:

02.06.
19:00
R211a

Penz Gallo is a Vienna-based interdisciplinary design practice by Lisa Penz and David Gallo. Their collective expertise in the fields of graphic design and architecture allows them to take a broad perspective on projects while carefully coordinating and integrating both spatial and visual aspects in their work. This involves questioning the supposed boundaries between media and disciplines and operating beyond them. Their designs are informed by a conceptual approach and place particular emphasis on sensitively coordinated tactile, material, and spatial qualities as well as finely crafted typographic details. Both their close collaborations with clients and self-initiated research projects result in publications, installations, exhibition and spatial designs, websites, and video works.

https://penz-gallo.com/

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Studio Paradox works in collaborations across spatial, image and text practices, at the intersection of art and architecture.
It addresses contemporary political, ecological, and urban conditions through a multidisciplinary approach. The work often focuses on large-scale and hidden infrastructures, looking at their ecological impacts, their role in shaping future urban developments, and their relationship to collective memory. Projects have been presented at the Tbilisi Biennale, the Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, among others.

studioparadox.info

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Music by Tech Rider :
sentient rooms and characters made of transients, phrases and harmonies. shaped by improvisation and recording

@hnsnkls

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lecture & concert followed by food & drinks!
special feature: business card station

image credits:

slide 1….
Collage by Grete Stern
Studio Paradox, Credits Helvijs Savickis
Penz Gallo by @ika.studios.akbild

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5 months ago

Hofbistro invites you to the 2nd dinner !!

this Friday, 22nd of may
in the courtyard of the academy of fine arts.

This time there will be 6 courses, focused on herbs and saisonal, local food.
Meet our guest Matthias, an organic farmer from „Gemüse und Kräuter von Annemarie und Matthias“ in Niederfellbrunn, lower Austria.
As a former art student @akbild he will come back and talk about his work and the ingredients.

The Tickets are limited and at a price of 15,- for 6 courses - you can reserve them
via email • hofbistro@proton.me •
or pick them up
at hof café on Thursday (café opening hours).

We are very much looking forward to eat, drink and talk together in the courtyard.

with love, hofbistro team <3

design by: @louis.frae taken in Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien by @ika.studios.akbild

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5 months ago

Lecture tonight!

Falafel and Hummus, drinks and conversations afterwards
Project: reale/non reale - methods of civil landscape engagement for Westbahnpark
Lecture by Lilli Lička
Part of the Lecture Series: Hands On - Urban Landscape Practices in Europe II

Monday, May 18th
19:00
Room 211A
IKA - Academy of fine Arts
Schillerplatz 3,
1010 Vienna by @ika.studios.akbild

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Next “What’s Next?” lecture:

19.05.
19:00
R211a

Büro Bietenhader Moroder ist the Vienna and Zurich based office of the Swiss Sebastian Bietenhader and the Italian Matthias Moroder. The office works internationally. The practice engages with intentional sameness as a positive formal quality of architecture. Grouped around this are interests for formally legible public architecture and public housing; for emancipatory architecture; for uncreative design processes; for dumb rather than smart architecture; for the relationship between digital and analogue approaches to sameness vs. variation; as well as the interrelation of these themes to the topic of renovation.

@buero.bietenhader.moroder

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aimé is mainly working in sound design and sound installations and has been experimenting with different musical styles over the last years. In their new live setup, expect variations around spectral ambient and field recordings, combined with subtle breaks and live instruments.

@jan___aime

with visuals by @flauxpas_

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lecture & concert followed by food & drinks!
special feature: application photo booth station.

image credits:
slide 1
collage by Grete Stern

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right upper corner: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, House for Four Families, Lʼarchitecture considérée sous le rapport de l’art, des moeurs et de la législation, Paris, 1804, Pl. 29. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
left upper corner:  Viktor Kalmykov, Residential combine out of four stepped houses, 1930, in: Chan-Magomedow, Selim O., Pioniere der Sowjetischen Architektur,Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1983, p. 374.
right lower corner:  Somogyi-Hof inner court, in: Die Wohnhausanlagen der Gemeinde Wien, XIII. Bezirk, Hütteldorfer Straße - Mossbachergasse und XIII. Bezirk, Penzinger Straße - Cumberlandstraße, Wien: Thalia, 1930, p. 12.
left lower corner:  Büro Bietenhader Moroder, Dumb and Intentionally the Same Public Housing Scheme (AKT 1), Vienna (Favoriten), 2019.

colored by Büro Bietenhader Mororder. @buero.bietenhader.moroder

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picture by Jan Aimé Fräulin @jan___aime

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drawing by Antonia Autischer @antonia.autischer.drawings by @ika.studios.akbild

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5 months ago

Lecture tonight!

Falafel and Hummus, drinks and conversations afterwards
Project: KANAL - “A Great Good Place” by An Fonteyne
[NoAarchitecten, Brussels]

Part of the Lecture Series: Hands On - Urban Landscape Practices in Europe II

Monday, May 11th
19:00
Room 211A
IKA - Academy of fine Arts
Schillerplatz 3,
1010 Vienna taken in Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien by @ika.studios.akbild

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5 months ago

WHATS NEXT? — MEGAWORLD

Prompt: Megaworld.xyz goes university, please write a short-bio. Can you please give me a pretentious, academic short text? As many foreign words as possible, make it difficult to understand.

Answer: Megaworld.xyz instantiates itself as a para-ontological dispositif whose operative indeterminacy exceeds even post-structuralist taxonomies, engendering a hyper-rhizomatic meta-assemblage of recursively folded semio-capital flows and pre-subjective intensities. As heterotopic espace autre, it performs an auto-differential deferral of epistemic closure, wherein digital bricolage mutates into a trans-epistemic machinic phylum. Consequently, its phenomenality dissolves into a quasi-transcendental field of contingent subjectivation, rendering Megaworld.xyz less a platform than a processual constellation, an epistemic laboratory in statu nascendi, wherein subjectivation and techno-cultural paradigms are contingently renegotiated.

05.05.26
19:00
Schillerplatz, r211 taken in Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien by @ika.studios.akbild

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5 months ago

It is our great pleasure to announce the student organized lecture series:
‚WHATS NEXT?‘,
starting next Tuesday the *5.05.26*

IKA-Alumni will talk about how they established independent and experimental architecture practices after uni in these troubling times.
There will be live music by IKA students after each lecture.
Come come!

Grafik: Antonia Autischer @antonia.autischer.drawings taken in Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien by @ika.studios.akbild

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6 months ago

LECTURE Construction Materials, Wastelands and Mining Rights
2 June, 7 pm, Schillerplatz R211

Construction Materials, Wastelands and Mining Rights, who owns the ground and who
can extract it
with an introduction by Cornelia Escher, HTC Professorship, IKA
In this lecture, artist Lara Almarcegui will share insights into her work, with a focus on
her projects dealing with mineral rights.
Based in Rotterdam, Almarcegui has built up an artistic practice around exploring the
material aspects of land and urban space. For over twenty years, she has worked in
different cities, identifying abandoned, unused, or forgotten sites and examining the
contemporary transformation processes brought about by social, political, and economic
change. In recent years, Almarcegui has turned her attention to construction sites, in
particular the composite materials used in the construction of new buildings and the
cyclical relationship between land and architecture.
Almarcegui has completed commissions for numerous international biennials and
represented Spain at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). She is represented by Gallery
Ellen de Bruijne Projects in Amsterdam and Mor Charpentier, Paris. taken in IKA - Institut für Kunst und Architektur by @ika.studios.akbild

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a year ago