The Institute for Art and Architecture (IKA) believes that architecture is an intellectual construction of ideas tied to its socio-economic and political context. Architectural production needs to be alert and inquisitive, at the same time innovative, inventive and critical. Consequently, we educate/encourage our students to experiment with ideas through research, test their credibility and viability through making and project their implementation in practice. If you are interested in architecture as a domain in which you exercise your intellectual capacity, where you tirelessly pursue arguing for a better world, where you insist on making a difference in how we inhabit the environment, and if you are interested in dialogue and debate, the IKA at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is the right choice. We are looking for students who are interested in investing in the future of architecture.

Architectural education at the Institute for Art and Architecture is based on five research platforms. They provide the foundation for a new type of architectural education, in which students and teachers alike can focus on a particular interest and yet connect to all of the other topics that are essential to understand the complexity of the discipline of architecture:

Analogue Digital Production (ADP) / Construction Material Technology (CMT) / Ecology Sustainability Cultural Heritage (ESC) / History Theory Criticism (HTC) / Geography Landscapes Cities (GLC).

Online registration for the academic year 2022/23:
Master: 19 April – 6 May, 2022
Bachelor: 23 May – 10 June, 2022

All international applicants are highly welcome. Please take into account that you have to prove proficiency in the German and in the English language on the level B2 in case this is not your first language.

More information on the application process, as well as updates regarding the Corona situation, is available here:
www.akbild.ac.at/ika
www.akbild.ac.at/portal_en/studies/study-programs
www.akbild.ac.at/portal_en/studies/general-study-information
www.akbild.ac.at/Portal/studium/student-welcome-center