The development of a wide range of new health initiatives and institutions, as well as of innovative care concepts, is currently underway in Austria. Space Anatomy reveals how and where these ideas are being planned and implemented, as well as the impact they have on local cities, communities, and everyday life. Featuring several expert roundtables and contributions by international authors, this book takes an incisive look at the importance of architecture and design on the spatial aspects of health and public health. Numerous successful Austrian projects--from health centers and care homes to results achieved through private initiatives--are provided as examples.
Magdalena Maierhofer works and conducts research at the intersection of healthcare infrastructure, public health, and spatial design, as well as developing new planning concepts for health-related infrastructures in both urban and rural contexts. In doing so, she studies the spaces and practices of formal and informal production in social locations and infrastructures. She has been teaching and conducting research in TU Wien's Research Unit for Local Planning (IFOER) since 2018, and is the project leader for both national and international research projects.
Evelyn Temmel is co-founder of the BELT architecture office, which implements diverse projects spanning city planning, architecture, and intervention. Since 2017, she has also been teaching and conducting research on the reciprocal interactions between health and architecture in the Building Theory and Design Section at TU Wien. Her work there focuses on analyzing building typologies and usage concepts and exploring the ways these adapt and transform in relation to societal change.
Judith M. Lehner works at the intersection of theory and practice in the fields of architecture and urbanism. As an urban planner with a PhD, she explores processes of transformation in societal crises and researches collective housing and social infrastructure in Latin American and European cities. She coordinates the Research Center 'New Social Housing' at TU Wien's Faculty for Architecture and Planning.
Lene Benz is an urban designer and cultural sociologist who works collaboratively at the intersection of city planning and urbanism, experimental design, and architecture. In both her urban design and artistic practice, she focuses on communitization strategies for living and working. Benz has been has worked at the Architekturzentrum Wien since 2018; there, among other things, she curates the Architektur.Film.Sommer project and was the project leader for the "wie wir wohnen" city lab in 2019.
Kathrin Schelling has held a number of teaching positions at TU Wien since 2013. Her research and teaching focuses on the spatial aspects of health and wellbeing. She is a co-founder of the Akt collective, which developed the concept for the 2023 Austrian pavilion at the Eighteenth International Architecture Exhibition in Venice alongside Herman Czech. She worked in a number of different firms both during and after her architecture studies at TU Wien, and currently works at SWAP Architekten.
