Werner Skvara new Vice Rector for Infrastructure and Sustainability
Following the position statement of the Senate, the University Council has confirmed Werner Skvara as Vice Rector for Infrastructure and Sustainability. The Academy is pleased about its new Vice Rector, who will take over the supervision and further development of the agendas "Infrastructure and Sustainability".
Werner Skvara , born 1972 in Vienna, studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since 2001 he has been working as a lecturer in the field of digitally supported architectural design at the Institute of Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as well as freelance collaborations with (international) architecture firms. Since 2013, he has been part of the institute management of the IKA with a focus on personnel agendas, coordination of spaces, responsibility in budget preparation, maintenance of the digital and analogue infrastructure. Long-standing member of the senate, works council and curriculum commission. 2018 external lecturer at Studio 3 at the University of Innsbruck. In 2019, he project-managed the research project "Hitze" (Heat) – a cooperation between the Institute of Art and Architecture and the Immobilien Privatstiftung to research climate change in Vienna.