Lecture by Wolfgang Tschapeller

Wolfgang Tschapeller is an architect based in Vienna. Born in Dölsach, East Tyrol, he was initially trained as a carpenter and later studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at Cornell University in New York State. Wolfgang Tschapeller has taught as a visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria, and the State University of New York at Buffalo, among others. In 2004 - 2005, he was a McHale Fellow at the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 2005 to 2023, he is Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and from 2012 to 2023, he was the Director of the IKA, the Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy.

Major projects include the BVA 1 to 4 series, the design for a guesthouse in the garden of the Schwarzenberg Palace in Vienna, the project for a European Cultural Center between the Palatine Chapel and the City Hall in Aachen, the administrative building of the municipality in Murau, Austria, the St. Joseph House, the project for the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Center for the Promotion of Science in Belgrade, and the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York State.

Part of the FORM SPACE ENVIRONMENT – Towards New Correalisms Lecture Series at the Institute for Art and Architecture (IKA) in Winter 2024-25, curated by Hannes Stiefel

We build. And we will need to build. And: it can be a responsible pleasure to build – building for desirable futures. We need to find ways to build differently, to accommodate new lifestyles that anticipate and adapt to radically changed conditions, and vice versa, to provoke them. New and other Correalisms are to be developed: constructions and aesthetics that are rooted in the dynamics of continuous interactions between humans and their natural and technological environments. The positions presented in this lecture series test different aspects of such New Correalisms in relation to various building practices.

Further lectures include:
20 January 2025 Barbara Buser / baubüro in situ