Publisher: Spector Books, Editors: Anh-Linh Ngo, Michael Obrist, Sabine Pollak, Lorenzo Romito, ISBN: 9783959059152, Format: Paperback, 216pp, 23 x 29 cm
The Austrian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale focuses on housing. Curators Michael Obrist, Sabine Pollak, and Lorenzo Romito contrast the top-down model of social housing construction in Vienna with the bottom-up model of self-organisation in Rome’s civil society. What can a system organised at state or municipal level learn from an approach based on informal activism, and vice versa? Could a synthesis of the two models perhaps be a starting point for overcoming the acute lack of affordable housing in our cities? And what does good housing and a better life involve today anyway? In the accompanying issue of ARCH+, the developments in Vienna and Rome are discussed in essays, discussion formats, and numerous infographics.