12/2/2026, 6.30 – 8 PM
Lecture Series ‘Housing Cooperatives International’: Past and present housing utopias in Vienna
An event organized by B/IAS in cooperation with the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum.
Gabu Heindl provides a concise overview of the development and significance of non-profit and cooperative housing in Vienna. She shows how a highly regulated, non-speculative housing model has emerged that provides affordable living space for broad sections of the population and is deeply rooted in everyday urban life. It also becomes clear how much non-profit housing construction has shaped the architectural and urban quality of Vienna—through carefully planned residential complexes, communal spaces, and architecture that understands social infrastructure as an integral part of living. At the same time, the Vienna model also exhibits neoliberal traits and injustices, which Heindl discusses.
Location: S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Steinberg 7, 4051 Basel
Admission: free
Image: Ivo Balmer
29/11/2025 – 19/4/2026
‘Wohnen fürs Wohnen’
A cooperation between S AM and the Association of Housing Cooperatives Northwestern Switzerland.
Basel was one of the early centers of cooperative housing in Switzerland. This exhibition at S AM sheds light on this often-overlooked history and expands the focus to the entire region of Northwestern Switzerland — marking the 100th anniversary of the Association of Housing Cooperatives Northwestern Switzerland. The exhibition also highlights how cooperative models continue to offer innovative responses to today’s housing challenges.LINA platform
LINA, the European architecture platform, is a network connecting prominent cultural players with emerging practitioners and thinkers in architecture. Its goal is to steer the architectural sector towards sustainable, circular and clean practices, to link the existing efforts into a united LINA Architecture Programme, and highlight new and emerging voices, giving them an international platform.
Members
Architectuul*, Atelier LUMA Arles, Architekturos Fondas Vilnius*, Barleti University Tirana, BETA Timișoara Architecture Biennial*, BINA Društvo arhitekata Beograda*, Copenhagen Architecture Festival*, Dani arhitekture Sarajevo*, Design Academy Eindhoven, dpr-barcelona*, Društvo arhitekata Istre*, Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum Tallinn*, ETSAM UPM Madrid, Fakulteta za arhitekturo Univerze v Ljubljani, FAAD Notre Dame University-Louaize, Fondazione MAXXI Roma*, Forecast Berlin*, Fundacio Mies van den Rohe Barcelona, HDA Haus der Architektur Graz*, Irish Architecture Foundation, Kosovo Architecture Foundation*, Oslo Architecture Triennale*, S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum*, Tbilisi Architecture Biennale*, TU Wien Gebäudelehre und Entwerfen, Theatrum Mundi Paris*, Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa*, VI PER Gallery Praha*
*Previously members of the Future Architecture platform
