Lecture Series by Hermann Czech: Design Issues

Programme

• 1 October 2025 – Introduction to Vienna
• 17 October 2025 – Separation of Spaces
• 7 November 2025 – Relation to Body Measures
• 28 November 2025 – The Role of Structure
• 19 December 2025 – Design Process
• 9 January 2026 – Generation and Destruction of Form

The lectures are open to all. They take place from 6–8 pm at The Square, 1st Floor, Institute of Architecture, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna.

Hermann Czech ranks as one of Austria’s most acclaimed architects and is a profound voice in the current discourse. His diverse architectural work spans urban planning, residential, school, and hotel buildings as well as small-scale interventions and exhibition designs. Early interior designs of cafés, such as the Kleines Café (1970/1973-74) and the Wunder-Bar (1976), have long inscribed themselves in the cultural fabric of the city. Czech sees architectural theory as "thinking accompanying design": His critical writings on the protagonists of Viennese Modernism, on architectural matters such as "remodeling" and "transforming" or on the methodology of architectural production show an increasingly close relationship between the abstract and the concrete, between theory and practice.