The Competition of Competitions: Summer School 2024
The Summer School will take place from September 5 to 8, 2024 in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology.
For the first time in history, the three architecture schools of Vienna - the IKA, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the I oA, University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Technical University Vienna, - organise a joint experimental September School.
It will take the form of a competition between several multidisciplinary groups of student participants, each supported by a duo of professors/teachers from our institutes. Every group is invited to create a full brief for an imagined international design contest for a specific site in Vienna. For this edition of September School we selected the highly charged site of the Alte Wirtschaftsuniversität (WU). The municipality of Vienna has already scheduled it for demolition: a new university campus - the largest in Austria! - is planned instead on the massive site of Alte WU.
An international committee of professionals is invited to revise all submitted briefs in the evening of September 8. After a collective discussion the jury will award one winning entry, which will be honoured with a prize during the public event on September 9. The results will be broadly publicised and reflected upon in various social media and the press.
Curators: Anastassia Smirnova-Berlin (IKA), Lisa Schmidt-Colinet (IKA), Baerbel Mueller (I oA), Ute Schneider (TU Urbanism)