HB2

department of building construction and design
institute of architecture and design
vienna university of technology

Karlsplatz 13 / 4.Stock
1040 Wien

library

Mo – Do 10:00 – 15:00

administration

Mo – Do 10:00 – 15:00

sekretariat[at]hb2.tuwien.ac.at

team

professor

secretary

Maria Ribar

academic staff

Michael Seidel
Michael Seidel > TISS

Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.
Teaching Focus:
  • Supervision of design exercises – Studio Building Construction, Design
  • Supervision of Building Systems in Construction
  • Lectures – Module Building Construction, Building Construction 2

Research Focus:

  • Lightweight structures in building construction
  • Design and function-relevant, constructive conception
  • Joining and detailing principles
  • Requirements for assembly, disassembly, and flexibility

See: Staff Publications

Education and Professional Experience:

  • 1978-1982: Vocational training as an electrical engineer
  • 1983-1984: Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
  • 1986-1988: Vocational training as a construction draftsman
  • 1990-1998: Architecture studies at TU Wien (Diploma under Helmut Richter)
  • 2002-2005: Doctoral studies at TU Wien
  • 2006: Civil engineering license exam

At the Department of Building Construction 2 since 1998

Contact:

Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger
San-Hwan Lu
San-Hwan Lu > TISS

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn.

Teaching:

  • Lecture: Hochbau 2
  • Supervision of design exercises

Research:

  • High-rise construction solutions in an international context
  • Comparative study of the state of the art in different cultural circles: high-rise construction details and solutions as expressions of societal demands on building culture.
  • Standards, regulations, and certifications for sustainable building
  • Comparison of international sustainability certifications based on their legal frameworks
  • Investigation of the relationship between standards, building regulations, and certifications, their origins, and relevance in the socio-cultural context
  • Technology development and cultural context
  • Comparative study of social, cultural, and historical frameworks and their role in the divergent genesis of building cultural developments in different cultural circles.

Contact Information:

Silke Fischer
Silke Fischer > TISS

Univ. Assistentin Dipl.-Ing.

Interests and Research:

  • Structural qualities and logical arguments in architecture
  • Construction interfaces
  • Drawing as a language and the factor of fear in the construction process
  • Systemic questions and historical action sequences
  • Socialism as a real existing experience
  • The extreme edges of architecture and fringe phenomena that only appear to be such

Practical Focus Areas:

  • Residential construction
  • Renovation of anonymous post-war mass construction, exemplified by a school project
  • Industrial construction
  • Conflict of interest on construction sites

Education and Professional Experience:

  • Born: 1979 in Meiningen, Germany
  • 1997-2004: Studied architecture at Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany, and Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles, CA. Diploma thesis at the Chair of Design and Residential Construction at Bauhaus University Weimar under Prof. Walter Stamm-Teske: “Residential Construction in Havana.”
  • 2005-2015: Practical experience in Vienna, ranging from competition to execution, baseboard to urban planning. Completed the civil engineer examination in 2013.
  • Since 2015: At the Department of HB2

Contact Information:

Patrick Krähenbühl
Patrick Krähenbühl > TISS

Personal Profile

I am an architect, designer, and artist living in Austria, born in May 1968 in Zurich, Switzerland. After completing an apprenticeship in carpentry with Matura at WSH Felbertal, I studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna.

Architectural Professional Experience as a Freelancer:

  • 2006 – Present: PK-Studio
  • 2011 – Present: Project partnership with Stiefel & Company Architects

Architectural Professional Experience as an Employee:

  • ArchitekturConsult (Domenig/Eisenköck/Peyker)
  • BUS-Architektur, Vienna
  • Coop Himmelb(l)au
  • BWM-Architekten
  • Ortner & Ortner Baukunst
  • Reinberg Architektur (Solar Architecture)

Artistic Professional Experience:

  • 2003 – 2012: Member of the artist collective Assocreation, focusing on public art
    • Group and solo exhibitions in Brooklyn (USA), Fabrica Gallery in Brighton (UK), the Bienal de Valencia (Spain), the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz (Austria), Istanbul 2010 – European Capital of Culture, and on the streets of New York, Warsaw, Zurich, Copenhagen, and Paris.
  • Since 1998: Freelance object artist, specializing in ready-mades and art installations

Academic Professional Experience (Teaching):

  • 2009 – 2011: Technical University of Vienna, Institute for Architecture and Design, University Assistant (WS 2009/10, SS 2010, WS 2010/11)
  • 2012/13: University of Liechtenstein, Institute for Architecture and Spatial Development, Critic and Lecturer
  • 2012/14: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Institute for Architecture and Art (IKA), Critic and Lecturer

Journalistic Professional Experience:

  • 2013: Archithese (co-authorship with Hannes Stiefel)
Markus Planteu
Markus Planteu > TISS

Architekt DI Markus Planteu

Senior Lecturer

  • Teaching since 2021: At the Institute of Architecture and Design, specializing in Building Construction, Structural Design, and Architecture.
  • Self-Employed Architect since 2014: Licensed and sworn civil engineer.
  • 2011: Civil engineer examination.
  • 2002-2013: Project leader at Zaha Hadid Architects, London.
  • 2004: Tisch Scholarship recipient.
  • Architecture Studies: Technical University of Vienna.
  • 2002: Diploma at the Institute for Building Construction II under Prof. Helmut Richter.

Contact Information:

Daniel Schürr
Michael Wildmann

external teachers

 Maximilian Abele
Thomas Ausweger
Margot Fürtsch-Loos
Petra Friedl
Adele Gindlstrasser
Duks Koschitz
Siegfried Loos
Cornelius Peter
Rita Pirpamer
Christoph Pichler
Irene Prieler
Josef Saller
Ruper Siller
Hans Schartner
Christian Schütz
Andreas Treusch
Friedel Winkler

student tutors

Lisa Blenk
Diana Boborodea
Mara Fehn
Batja Ferch
Fabian Fröhlinger
Sofiya Lukyanchenko
Markus Rupprecht
Flora Tamm

former visiting professor

Myrto Vitart
IBOS VITART

former staff

Ralitsa Danailova
Johannes Martin Fandl
Laura Farmwald
Marlies Forenbacher
Bianca Gamser
Alexander Hagner
Eldar Hajdarevic
Laura Hannappel
Phelan Heinsohn
Elisabeth Hofstetter
Christoph Kaltenbrunner
Hannah Kienast
Rafael Kopper
Klaus Krec
Jasmin Krickhaus
Vera Kumer
Franz Loranzi
Kadri Muzaqi
Mire Neumann
Matthias Oltay
Lukas Ortner
Polina Petrova
Simon Pichler
Markus Planteu
Eugen Popa
Julia Puchegger
Robert Riegler
Belinda Rukschcio
Irene Schindl
Olivia Schrattenecker
Rupert Siller
Laurenz Steixner
Michel Strümpf
Matthäus Wasshuber
Elisabeth Weiler
Christian Wittmeir
Markus Zimmermann

former external teachers

Peter Bauer
Ernst Beneder
Alfred Berger
Sylvia Boday
Eva Ceska
Hermann Czech
Raphael Eder
Michael Felder
Wolfgang Feyferlik
Andreas Frauscher
Petra Friedl
Susanne Fritzer
Katharina Fröch
Willi Frötscher
Kinayeh Geiswinkler–Aziz
Gerda Gerner
Feria Gharakhanzadeh
Martin Haferl
Alexander Hagner
Melanie Hammerschmidt
Otmar Hasler
Ulrike Hausdorf
Dieter Henke
Waltraut Hoheneder
Christine Horner
Ulrich Huhs
Christian Jabornegg
Clemens Kirsch
Barbara Kolb
Klaus Krec
Werner Krismer
Karl Langer
Christian Lichtenwagner
Nerma Linsberger
Christoph Mayrhofer
René Oberhofer
Michael Ogertschnig
Franziska Orso
Wolfgang Pauser
Rainer Pirker †
Ulrike Pitro
Georg Poduschka
Rudolf Prohazka †
Iris Reiter
Peter Resch
Max Rieder
Alexander Runser
Ulrike Schartner
Michael Schluder
Ulrike Schneider
Martina Schöberl
Peter Johannes Schütz
Rupert Siller
Walter Stelzhammer
Norbert Steiner
Hannes Stiefel
Much Untertrifaller
Andreas Vass
Renate Vedral
Sandrine von Klot
Susanna Wagner
Klaus Wailzer
Michael Wallraff
Friedel Winkler
Christian Wittmeir
Alexa Zahn
Susanne Zottl

former  professors

Hemma Fasch
Gerhard Steixner

Helmut Richter †
Ernst Hiesmayr †

former visiting professors

Studio MUOTO
Marlies Breuss
Maria Flöckner
Siegfried A. Fruhauf
Rainer Köberl
Claudia Larcher
Patrick Lüth
Hermann Schnöll