Course General Description

Studio Greg Lynn focuses on high performance architecture calibrated to the social and technological situation of contemporary culture. The studio topics include rethinking work, entertainment, leisure, and living through research and innovation in intelligent buildings, dynamic environments, and machine vision. In order to innovate we begin with benchmarks in architectural precedents. The studio remains in dialogue with historical precedents as a means to define a rigorous architectural discipline. Taking advantage of the unique creative and intellectual resources of the Angewandte in Vienna, the studio is open to and in continuous exchange with other disciplines like industrial design, fashion, music, and film.

School General Description

In the heart of Vienna, the capital of the Danube monarchy, the predecessor institution of the current University of Applied Arts, the Imperial Royal Arts and Crafts School, was founded in 1867. It was closely affiliated with the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry (today the MAK), the first Arts and Crafts museum on the European continent. It was established in 1863 following the example of the South Kensington Museum in London, now the Victoria & Albert Museum, and was to serve as a collection of models for artists, industrialists, and the general public. At the time, early-industrialised England played a pioneer role in supporting a reformed Arts and Crafts movement in order to prevent its decline in the Machine Age. In the spirit of Historicism, the aim was to make it possible, also in Vienna, to study the great styles of the past by example of Arts and Crafts objects in the museum and to set up a place of advanced education for designers and craftsmen with the Arts and Crafts School in Vienna. It should train artists and teachers in equal measure to serve the demands of the art industry.