Friedrich Hauer
Dipl.-Ing. Mag.phil. Dr.techn.
Visiting Professor
Consultation hours
after prior arrangement via e-mail
Friedrich Hauer studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and history at the University of Vienna. He completed his doctorate in 2019 with a study on the morphological relevance of water and bodies of water in Vienna's urban structure. He researches and teaches on urban morphological and environmental history topics: Urban structures of the 19th-21st century, informal urbanisation in Europe, urban waters, infrastructures (supply and disposal, transport), the city of short distances, etc.
His work has been honoured several times, including the Otto Borst Prize, Pfann-Ohmann Prize, Rudolf Wurzer Prize, Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna for Humanities, Social and Cultural Sciences.
- Current courses
- Research projects
- Publications
- A Techno-river in the Making
- Der instabile Rand
- Taming ‘wild’ Vienna?
- Tracing the informal fringe
- Data description of “building age map, Vienna, around 1920”
- Wasser Stadt Wien
- Wilde Siedlungen und rote Kosakendörfer
- Urban Waters and the Development of Vienna between 1683 and 1910
- Das wilde Wien
- How water and its use shaped the spatial development of Vienna
- Metabolism and Waterscape in an Industrializing City
- The long-term evolution of urban waters and their nineteenth century transformation in European cities
- Die Versorgung Wiens 1829–1913
- 6 Strategien für den ländlichen Raum