Growing up with architecture: The book “Dječji vrtići i škole u 21. stoljeću”, edited by Borka Bobovec, Davor Mateković and Goran Rako, with a foreword by Maroje Mrduljaš, presents stimulating environments for conducting education, all built after 2000. PPAG architects’ Bildungscampus Sonnwendviertel is featured too: It is presented as belonging to the typology of city/village…and […]
On March 5, 2021 Anna Popelka gave the keynote lecture of the architecture festival TURN ON: “We know a lot about what would be good for everyone.Where we want to develop.It just doesn’t flow into our everyday reality yet.We do not implement the conceivable possible.We do not implement what we can already imagine.The built environment […]
The need for room configurations able to take our diversified life models into account isn’t anything new. But the corona crisis intensifies it and makes it even more evident. The current edition of the Swiss construction newspaper TEC21 shows examples of projected and implemented buildings that make working from home more viable and interesting – […]
Every spring, the festival TURN ON focuses on new and innovative aspects of architecture. In the the lectures, fundamental questions of the architectural field are aimed to be paired with a “building culture”. But how can this mindset emerge? What kind of factors are needed in order to bring construction to the highest level? On […]
Beim Architekturfestival TURN ON stehen neue und innovative Aspekte des Bauens im Mittelpunkt der Vorträge. Grundsätzliche architektonische Themen sollen mit dem Anspruch auf „Baukultur” überdacht werden. Doch wie kann Letztere entstehen? Welche Umstände ermöglichen es, dass sich das Bauen auf höchstem Niveau entwickelt? Am 5. März 2021 hält Anna Popelka um 11h15 mit „Wann, wenn […]
On February 18th between 17:00 and 19:30: opening of the exhibtion STAYING HOME, BUT HOW? at (and in front of) philomena+ project room, Heinestrasse 40 in Vienna’s 2nd district! The show addresses the question of what or rather how we can learn from the COVID-19 crisis, especially in terms of architecture. A glance at architectural […]
Last year the secondary school was “Building Of the Week” on the online platform austria architects. It presented 48 Buildings of the Week in 2020, featuring short Q&As with architects about recently completed buildings.Now it’s your turn to crown a Building of the Year by voting for your favorite. If you like the schools we […]
THE SHOW HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE UNCERTAIN COVID-19 SITUATION. SAVE THE NEW DATE! We will be inaugurating our exhibition Keine halben Sachen [=No Half Measures] Making Space for Possibilities on 19.11.2021 instead of 28.05.2021 at the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin. Save the date! www.aedes-arc.de
We are very pleased to announce that PPAG architects has been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Awards 2022, for our School Building in Längenfeldgasse, Vienna. A further prototype for modern pedagogy, an abstract, vertical city of children in the city. The official European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture is granted every two years […]
At PPAG we believe that every crisis gives us the chance to rise to the challenge. In 2020 we were given enough opportunities to put this theory to the test. For us one thing is certain: what now remains is a positive review of what the PPAG team has put together this year! With the […]
