Team

Sabine Pollak

teaches as a professor for space&designstrategies at the University of Art and Design Linz and runs the architecture firm Köb&Pollak Architektur in Vienna together with Roland Köb. 1996 doctorate and 2004 habilitation in residential construction at the TU Vienna. Sabine Pollak was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and led guest workshops at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the Politecnico Milan, the University of Salzburg and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Sabine Pollak works theoretically (books, essays, an ongoing urbanism blog in the Standard), teaches experimental architecture, the history of housing and architectural theory, researches the topics of housing and feminism, community and urbanism and works with her office as an expert for communal housing in Vienna. Residential buildings by Köb&Pollak Architektur, such as the ro*sa Donaustadt women's housing project, have been exhibited, published, and awarded numerous prizes.

Michael Obrist

born in Bolzano in 1972, is one of the five founding partners of feld72 Architekten in Vienna and university professor at TU Wien. Since 2018, he has been university professor of Housing and Design and Head of the university’s Housing and Design Research Department. He made a central contribution to the creation of the interdisciplinary Centre for New Social Housing, which was jointly initiated by TU Wien and the International Building Exhibition IBA Wien 2022. He has held visiting professorships at Politecnico di Milano and the University of Arts Linz and taught at the Public Art Masterclass of the Salzburg Summer Academy and the Architectural Association Visiting School in Slovenia. Guest Editor (with Christina Lenart and Bernadette Krejs) of ARCH+ "Vienna.The End of Housing (as a Typology)" (Spector Books). Editor (with Antonietta Putzu) of "The Last Grand Tour" (Park Books). The work of feld72 in the areas of housing, educational and office buildings, and urbanism has received numerous awards (including a number of Austrian State Prizes, the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture, and the Architecture Award of the City of Vienna) and has been presented at several biennales, worldwide (Venice 2016, 2011, 2010, 2008, and 2004, Shenzhen/Hong Kong 2009, São Paulo 2007, and Rotterdam 2003).

Lorenzo Romito

is an artist, architect, curator and co-founder of Stalker (1995–). He is a lecturer in space&designstrategies at the University of Arts Linz (since 2022). Together with Giulia Fiocca, he teaches Public Art at NABA Rome (since 2020) and the Stalker module in the Environmental Humanities master’s program at Roma Tre University (since 2016). As Visiting Professor, he occupied the Francesco De Sanctis Chair for Italian language and culture at ETH Zurich (spring 2024) and he was awarded the Prix de Rome in Architecture at the French Academy, Villa Medici, Rome (2000–2001). With Stalker, he has participated in various art and architecture events across Europe and worldwide, including the Venice Biennale (2000, 2008, 2014), Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana (2000), the Rome Quadriennale (2008), the Riwaq Biennale in Ramallah (2006), and the IABR Rotterdam Biennale (2008). He and Stalker were awarded the Curry Stone Prize for Social Design in 2016.

Commissioner

Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, Division IV – Arts and Culture

Curators

Sabine Pollak, Michael Obrist, Lorenzo Romito

Design

Sabine Pollak, Michael Obrist, Lorenzo Romito

Research Team Vienna

Sabine Pollak and Michael Obrist in collaboration with Research department Housing and Design / Institute for Architecture and Design / Faculty for Architecture and Planning / TU Wien (Adna Babahmetović, Tatjana Bergmeister, Peter Fattinger, Sinem Firat, Marie Gnesda, Laura Huber, Michael Klein, Bernadette Krejs, Diego Martinez, Franz Ollertz, Franziska Orso, Lorenzo Vicari, Costanza Zeni) and Anton Krebs, Armin Linke, Carla Lo, Gili Merin, Nikola Miloradovic, Zara Pfeifer, Miriam Pollak, Lotte Schreiber, Paul Sebesta, Veronika Wladyga

Thanks to

Peter Bauer, Katharina Bayer, Carina Bliem, Thomas Bozzetta, Joschka Brangs, Josef Cser, Theo Deutinger, Paulus Dreibholz, Benni Eder, Katharina Egger, David Eisl, Aline Eriksson, Anne Catherine Fleith, Kathrin Gaál, Michael Gehbauer, Julia Girardi-Hoog, Daniel Glaser, Maria Groiss, Dieter Groschopf, Nina Haider, Friedrich Hauer, Gabu Heindl, Kurt Hofstetter, Susanne Kallinger, Winfried Kallinger, Emma Keller, Robert Korab, Roland Köb, Andre Krammer, Theresa Krenn, Christina Lenart, Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau, Max Limbeck-Lilienau, Michael Ludwig, Thomas Madreiter, Materialnomaden, Madlyn Miessgang, Judith Moser, Viktoria Neuber, neunerhaus, Luz Olivares Capelle, Mario Paintner, Markus Pendlmayr, Katrin Pilz, Ulrike Pitro, Planet 10, Gregor Puscher, Bruno Sandbichler, Richard Scheich, Christina Schraml, Milica Simic, Amila Širbegović, Lina Streeruwitz, Katharina Urbanek, Verein Frauenwohnprojekt ro*sa, Bernd Vlay, Viola Wagner, Michael Wallraff, Natascha Weiß, Wiener Wohnen, Wohnservice Wien, Marie-Noëlle Yazdanpanah, Karin Zauner-Lohmeyer, Markus Zilker, Peter Zoderer

Research Team Rom

Thanks to

Landscape Concept

Carla Lo Landschaftsarchitektur

Structural Engineering

Peter Bauer, Werkraum Ingenieure ZT

Project & Production Management

section.a, Vienna

Press / Public Relations

art:phalanx, Vienna

Visual Communication

Bueronardin, Vienna

Programming Website 

Philipp Daun, Vienna

Fiscal Project Management

Georg Geyer, Kanzlei Geyer & Geyer, Vienna

Insurance

Barta M.A.I. (Managing Art Insurance), Vienna