Best of Austria

Best of Austria

Architecture 2016_17

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The latest survey of oustanding Austrian architecture, featuring award-winning buildings by Austrian architects and realized projects by international architects in Austria in 2016–17.

 

 

Title Information

Edited by Architekturzentrum Wien Az W

1st edition

, 2018

Text English and German

Hardback

260 pages, 254 color and 176 b/w illustrations

21.5 x 29 cm

ISBN 978-3-03860-123-4

Content

The latest edition of Best of Austria, produced by Vienna-based Architekturzentrum Wien, once again brings together 153 projects that have won national and international architecture awards in 2016 and 2017, from public buildings and spaces to offices, educational facilities, and single-family homes. Each entry includes full-color images and a floor plan, section, or elevation, as well as a brief description of the project. Rounding out the volume is a critical essay on contemporary Austrian architecture. All of the country’s major architectural prizes are accounted for in this large and well-illustrated volume, making it a valuable up-to-date survey of contemporary architecture in Austria.

The 2016/17 edition features designs by Ludescher und Lutz Architekten; gerner°gerner plus; Marte. Marte Architekten; studio3 – Institut für experimentelle Architektur, Uni Innsbruck; Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten; Henke Schreieck Architekten, Dietger Wissounig Architekten; AllesWirdGut; Bernardo Bader; Volker Giencke; Dietrich | Untertrifaller; und Rey-Lucquet et associés; and others.

 

Available volumes in the series:

Best of Austria: Architecture 2010_11

Best of Austria: Architecture 2012_13

Best of Austria: Architecture 2014_15

Best of Austria: Architecture 2018_19

Authors & Editors

Klaus-Jürgen Bauer

 1997 doctorate at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Since 1998 architectural office in Eisenstadt. Since 2000 lecturer at the TU Vienna. Member of various design committees, curator, author.

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Robert Fabach

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Barbara Feller

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Eva Guttmann

 is a freelance architecture publicist based in Graz and Vienna and an editor with Park Books.

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Gudrun Hausegger

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Manuela Hötzl

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Anne Isopp

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Gabriele Kaiser

 lives and works in Vienna as freelance architecture publicist, writer, and curator.

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Elke Krasny

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Marion Kuzmany

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Isabella Marboe

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Norbert Mayr

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Astrid Meyer-Hainisch

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Romana Ring

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Robert Temel

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Nicola Weber