Vienna Architecture Summer School (VAS²)

Public Program: Vienna Architecture Summer School (VAS²)

VAS² invites for exchange with local and international participants, young architects, and established experts through a public program of lectures, panel discussion, film screening, and an exhibition presenting the workshop outcomes.

The fifth edition of VAS² aims to create an open learning space and a prototypical infrastructure that facilitate the negotiation of knowledges in architecture and related disciplines with 12 diverse workshops over the course of nine days.

Free of charge, English language

Supported by Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS), City of Vienna, Austrian Business Agency

Sunday, August 23rd, 19.30

Photography as a Tool for Research, Lecture by ZARA PFEIFER 


Monday, August 24th, 19.30
The unlimited within the determined, Lecture by PAUHOF

Tuesday, August 25th, 19.30
Performing Public Space, Panel discussion
with DIE ANHALTESTELLE & DIE RAUMARBEITERINNEN

Thursday, August 27th, 19.30
Form Follows Resource Lecture by GAUPENRAUB +/-

Friday, August 28th, 19.30
All Buildings Are Beautiful, Film screening and discussion
with CHRISTOPH SCHWARZ

Saturday, August 29th, 15.00 - 19.00
Exhibition Opening and Tours with VAS² 2026

Saturday, August 29th, 21.00
Closing Party with Tanja Turner
LOCATION: Club U, Karlsplatz 1010 Vienna

Sunday, August 30st, 13.00 - 18.00
Exhibition and Tours with VAS² 2026