Archdiploma 2023

Out of more than 600 diploma works developed, submitted, defended and accepted in the last two years, 75 projects were chosen for this year’s exhibition and are displayed at eight different locations across Vienna. They can be seen at underused entrance lobbies, a student workspace, club rooms of public institutions and public interest groups, a neighourhood’s community locale and public space. To some extent therefore it could be argued that Archdiploma 23 opens up the TU Vienna to the city and its urban agencies.

This implies that Archdiploma 23 exposes the work undertaken for academic bravura to an audience much larger than students, researchers, teachers and staff of the TU’s Faculty for Architecture and Spatial Planning combined. Graduates gain the opportunity to share their work with people working in other academic fields, professional practices, private companies, for the interest of public good, grassroot social cohesion or even interested passers-by. Yet it is also because of the ways in which the displayed projects contribute to various fields of knowledge and how they relate to the building spaces they are exhibited in that a multi-faceted story of academic excellence can be told.