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Urban Design

Plan archive Rudolf Wurzer

The plan archive at the Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Research Unit of Urban Design, which goes back to him and his predecessors, is closely related to the Rudolf Wurzer Library. The archive covers the subjects of urban planning, urban history and spatial planning, and currently combines antiquarian and contemporary historical planning material not only with a special focus on Austria, but also on the whole of Europe. This independent collection comprises a total of around 6000 different national and international maps, plans, town plans, aerial photographs, zoning and development plans. In terms of its function, the archive served on the one hand as documentation of the department's research activities and on the other as an analogue teaching aid. The archive thus documents Rudolf Rozer's life's work as a planner and university lecturer.

As part of a retro-cataloguing process that has not yet been completed, the library of the Technische Universität Wien has been won as a partner with the aim of recording the holdings of this unique archive via the online catalogue and making them accessible again.

Library

The temporary organisational model currently offers students and the review board the opportunity to make an appointment to view books and scan relevant pages on Tuesdays between 16:00 and 19:00. In this regard, as well as for the return of books that were borrowed before the current guidelines were announced, please contact the study assistance of the Research Unit of Urban Design: emil.kranewitter@tuwien.ac.at
The address is as follows: Karlsplatz 13 / Staircase 6 / 4th floor / take the first door on the right after the Research Unit of Building Construction and Design 2.