Architecture Centre Vienna
Architecture Centre Vienna—known locally as Az W and officially Architekturzentrum Wien—was founded in 1993 as a non-profit organization and established Austria’s national museum for 20th- and 21st-century architecture. From the beginning, it grew out of a partnership between Austria’s national government and the city of Vienna, jointly operated through the Federal Ministry of Education, Art and Culture and Vienna’s cultural and urban-development offices. For eight years, the museum worked from temporary exhibition spaces in the Museumsquartier. In 2001, it moved into its present location, where it has around 1,000 square metres of exhibition space. In its first 15 years, Az W organized over 150 exhibitions, 300 events, and 600 architectural excursions, turning architecture into public culture rather than a specialist subject. Its permanent show, “a_schau. Österreichische Architektur im 20. und 21. …
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