Concluding Austria With a Trip to Graz

View from the "needle" inside the Kunstmuseum, Graz

I also made it to Graz (European Capital of Culture 2003) two hours South of Vienna. An architect there, Friedl Prasenc, showed me around Graz and many contemporary architecture sites that rounded off an exciting week in Austria. 

Mur Island (2003) designed by Acconci Studio

  Detail, Mur Island (2003) designed by Acconci Studio

Part of University of Graz

My visit to Austria also included meeting (yet) another female architect, Sabine Pollack who works as an architect in Vienna (Koeb & Pollak Architektur) and teaches architecture at the University of Linz. Of note, she in involved with some very interesting social housing projects for women in Vienna. My eyes were opened up to the social housing tradition in Vienna that seems part and parcel with the city’s progressive approach to public investment and community development.

I was so taken with Austria, I've started German lessons! Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch. Sehr gut! :)