Events
November 13, 2025
audacity architecture talks 2025, Vol. 3: The Healthy Urban Oasis – Visionary Infrastructures for Urban Healthcare
Heat waves, a lack of green spaces, and insufficient adaptation to climate change clearly show how vulnerable cities have become. The third audacity architecture talk 2025 by Architects Collective is therefore dedicated to the question of how cities can be designed in such a way that they not only enable health, but actively promote it – as social, climate-friendly, and resilient networked living spaces.
Moderated by journalist Michael Kerbler, Johanna Horn (Solve Consulting), Peter Schwehr (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts), Lilli Lička (former head of landscape architecture at BOKU Vienna), and Andreas Frauscher (CEO Architects Collective) discuss the spatial, social, and political prerequisites for a “healthy urban oasis.”
November 13, 2025
Award ceremony! Architects Collective Student Award for Healthcare Architecture 2025 – Health finds a home in the city, dreaming utopias together for a bold vision of new urban infrastructures
On November 13, 2025, the designs and winners of this year's Architects Collective Student Award for Healthcare Architecture, presented for the second time in cooperation with TU Wien, were ceremoniously presented in the Prechtlsaal and awarded prize money totaling 9,000 euros.
As part of the award ceremony, the twenty best design posters were exhibited in the Prechtlsaal of the Vienna University of Technology and presented to an interested audience. This award for healthcare architecture aims to promote human-centered architecture based on the principles of healing architecture and to generate broader resonance for it among students, colleagues, and the wider public.
June 17, 2025
AC Art Experience 2025: David Lieser / Through This Decade
We at AC love art. Because we in architecture can learn a lot from art. So why not create a new format: The AC Art Experience! We believe that art is worth experiencing anew every day – not just in relation to architecture.
We celebrated the successful launch of our new format on June 17, 2025, with the vernissage of artist and long-time employee David Lieser and his exhibition "Through This Decade". In our office in Vienna’s Ungargasse, eleven works by David Lieser, created between 2015 and 2025, can be viewed by appointment until further notice.
April 25, 2024
Award Ceremony: Architects Collective Student Award for Healthcare Architecture 2024 – The Heart for Healthcare Architecture Beats Strongly!
On April 25, 2024, the winners of the first Architects Collective Student Award for Healthcare Architecture, in collaboration with TU Wien, were ceremoniously presented in the Prechtlsaal and awarded prize money totaling 7,000 euros.
Healthcare Architecture is far more than the planning of individual typologies such as hospitals or nursing homes. It begins much earlier in the prevention of illness or the need for care and must start much sooner in urban and spatial planning to promote community and health. The healthy city, the healthy community – these are topics that also lie within the responsibility of architects as designers of society and the world – and they require and deserve support in research, teaching, and practice.
October 5, 2023
audacity architecture talks 2023: Do You Care? Do We Really Care? How and Where Do We Plan Living Spaces for People with Care Needs?
The need for places and spaces where people can be cared for in an ethical, health-promoting, and affordable way, enabling them to live with dignity, will grow rapidly and significantly in the coming years.
Where are the people? Placed in a nursing home on the outskirts of the city – where, if they’re lucky, they might occasionally be visited? Or perhaps right in the middle of the city or community, where they have the opportunity to participate in public life despite their limited daily routines? And what about young or younger people who need care in the short, medium, or long term?
October 14, 2021
audacity architecture talks 2021: The Hospital Organism Post-Covid-19
What will the clinic of the future be like? A protected, sterile place with maximum flexibility based on the lessons of the pandemic? An open space for social interaction and the well-being of all people as a green marketplace and central hub in urban planning?
Conclusion: Healing Architecture is a sustainable investment in the healthcare system. It endures for a long time, is often overlooked, must be explained in the broader discourse of societal policy, and returns tenfold to the healthcare system as a sustainable investment in the spatial well-being of patients. It requires a new culture with an awareness of creating and ensuring beneficial encounters and interactions in healthcare buildings, fulfilling the ethical mission of healing while aligning with economic goals.
November 30th, 2022
Studio Shooting Marc Goodwin
We are delighted to be chosen by Marc Goodwin for one of his Viennese Studio Shootings. It is a privilege and a great pleasure for us to contribute to his architecture photography work.