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14th Vienna Architecture Congress
Bottom up. Building For A Better World

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Congress: 17 November 2006 - 19 November 2006
Tickets: 1-day ticket: EUR 9.50 / EUR 6.50 reduced, 3-day-ticket: EUR 23.00 / EUR 16.00 reduced

Alejandro Aravena
Architect, Founder of Elementalchile, Santiago, Chile
Recent Projects:
Medical School, Universidad Católica Santiago, 2004
Montessori School, Santiago, 2001
Mathematics School, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 1999
Sculptor’s House, Santiago, 1998
www.elementalchile.org

Steve Badanes
Architect, Founder of Jersey Devil. He cofounded the Design/Build Mexico programme and leads design/build studios at the University of Washington that have focused on community service projects for non-profit organisations in the Seattle area.
www.jerseydevildesignbuild.com

Bryan Bell
Founder of Design Corps, Raleigh, North Carolina, a non-profit agency whose mission is “to provide the benefits of architecture to those traditionally unserved by the profession.” Has also started an internship programme with the AmeriCorps national service programme for youngdesigners interested in the social application of architecture.
www.designcorps.org

Peter Burk
Architect, Chairman of Architects without borders, Stuttgart, Germany
Recent publication: Building-Planner Crisis- and Developing Regions (engl. Editition) Fraunhofer IRB-Verlag, 2005
www.architekten-ueber-grenzen.de

Gareth A. Jones
Senior Lecturer, London School of Economics, Geography and Environment Department
Recent publications:
Culture and politics in the “Latin American” city. in: Latin American research review 41, no. 1,
2006
Children and development: rights, globalisation and poverty, Progress in development studies 5, no. 4, 2005
Housing policy (Mexico), in: Encyclopaedia of social welfare history in North America, Ed. Herrick, J.M.; Stuart, P.H. Sage, 2005
www.lse.ac.uk

Zunaid Khan
Architect and Urban Planner, Johannesburg

Jaime Lerner
Architect, Urban planner and Mayor of Curitiba, Brasilia, 2002-2005 President of the International Union of Architects, Founder of Instituto Jaime Lerner
www.jaimelerner.com

Johannes Porsch
Curator, Architekturzentrum Wien
Exhibitions: Un jardin d'hiver, Ottokar Uhl, The Austrian phenomenon. Konzeptionen Experimente Wien Graz 1958-1973, Sturm der Ruhe. What is Architecture?

Andrea Rieger-Jandl
Technical University Vienna, Institute for
Art History, Building Research and Preservation
Andrea Rieger-Jandl studied in Austria and in the USA. She has a diploma in architecture and a PhD-degree in social and cultural anthropology. Since 2000 she has been teaching and researching at the Institute of History of Art and Architecture, Building Archaeology and Restoration at the Vienna University of Technology. Her research focuses on comparative studies on architecture in a socio-cultural context.
Publications: Building Culture – Towards a „Global“ Architecture, Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Wien, 2006; Living Culture in the Himalayas. Anthropological Guidelines for Building in Developing Countries, Facultas Verlag, Wien, 2005
www.baukunst.tuwien.ac.at

S2Arch is a network, initiated by Christoph Chorherr, of local public institutions, private
non-profit organisations as well as international sponsors. The focus of the initiative is on educational and integrative facilities, kindergartens, schools and day-care centres.
Project Presentations:
Technical Universities Innsbruck, Graz, RWTH Aachen, Institut of Space and Design, Kunstuniversität Linz, Fachhochschule Kuchl
http://sarch.twoday.net


© Dorit Margreiter 

14th Vienna Architecture Congress
Friday, 17.11.2006
Saturday, 18.11.2006
Sunday, 19.11.2006
Short Biographies

Press Release:
Focus At The Architekturzentrum Wien


Gallery:
Impressions from the 14th Vienna Architecture Congress


Links:
Architecture for Humanity

Architects Without Borders

Barefoot Architects

Design Corps

Habitat for Humanity

Rural Studio

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