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Architektin, Mag.Arch., M.Arch.II
Certified civil engineer

Member BIG architectural advisory board
Member advisory board for architecture, City of Linz
Board member ÖGFA

Architectural concepts and realisations of public cultural and social buildings as well as urban research
projects and publications.
Publications in architectural journals like JAE, Umbau, Volume, dérive, et al.; Books: Arbeit Zeit Raum.
Bilder und Bauten der Arbeit im Postfordismus (turia+kant, 2008), position everyday – architecture in the
context of everyday life (HDA Verlag, 2009). Since 2007 lecturer at the Institute for Art and Architecture,
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, before at TU Graz, TU Delft, at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and at
Princeton University.
From 2001 to 2003 design architect at Diller + Scofidio in New York and at de Architekten Cie. in
Amsterdam.
Studies of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, at Geidai University in Tokyo and Postgraduate
Master Studies (Fulbright Scholarship) at Princeton University, USA.


Profile (english) World Architects
Profile (german) nextroom


PROJECTS (Selection)

High-School Zehnergasse
School extension in Wiener Neustadt, invited competition, 1st prize, 2010
currently: design phase

Outside in prison
Art with architecture in the county prison in Krems, invited competition, 1st prize, 2010
currently phase of realisation

Wild Translation
A projekt by trafo.K & Gabu Heindl
in the context of the exhibition "Utopia and the Everyday"
Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, 2009

Venice: Pavilion
Art Biennale Venice 2009
A space-within-the-space in the Austrian Pavillon for the film-installation „Pavilion“ of Dorit Margreiter
completion 2009

Der Bau (the building): Amidst Us - Deconstruction of a Façade
Bridgeheadbuilding, Linz. Based on the historic research about forced labor, displacement, and
annihilation around the construction of the Brückenkopfgebäude.
Exhibition design and architecture of façade. With Hito Steyerl, for Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture
completion 2009 (deconstruction: summer 2010)

Austrian Film Museum inside/out
Österreichisches Filmmuseum Wien, Albertina Museum
Museum entrance / Film-Bar / façade conversion
completion 2008

Kindergarten Rohrendorf
Low energy extension of existing Kindergarten
Invited competition: 1st prize
completion 2008

brut bar and theatre foyer
brut, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
with Manfred Hasler, konstantin gabel
completion 2007


ONGOING PROJECTS / RESEARCH / COMPETITIONS (Selection)

School-Buildings
Evangelian high school Donaustadt, invited competition, 1st Prize
Extension High-School Zehnergasse in Wiener Neustadt

Kindergarten-Buildings
New building for a Kindergarten in Amstetten, invited competition
New building "Kindergarten im Stadtpark" Vienna, open competition
Kinder Gärten Bauten (Kids Gardens Buildings) in Lower Austria, symposium in Rohrendorf/Krems

Public Cultural and Social Buildings
Conversion entrance Silberkammer, Hofburg Vienna, invited competition, 3rd pize
Buildings for supported life and work for handycapped people, Burgenland

Filmmuseum Labor, study for the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna

Park_our_park, sculpture and designing of a public open space (Kulturbezirk), St. Pölten (since 2009)

Boardinghouse Vienna, invited competition, 2nd prize


BOOKS

position alltag. architecture in the context of everyday life
Markus Bogensberger, Gabu Heindl (eds.), german/engl.
HDA Verlag, Graz 2009

Arbeit Zeit Raum. Bilder und Bauten der Arbeit im Postfordismus
Gabu Heindl (ed.), german, turia + kant, Vienna 2008
Awarded as one of best designed books in Austria 2008


AWARDS and STIPENDS

2011
- 1st Prize with feld72 and Numen / for use, invited competition "design guidelines Donaukanal"
- 1st Prize, invited competition "Evangelisches Realymnasium Donaustadt"

2010
- Recognition Prize for Architecture of Lower Austria
- 40 under 40 – Europe’s emerging young architects and designers
- 1st prize, invited competition for art with architecture for a county prison in Krems, Lower Austria
- 3rd prize, invited competition “conversion of the entrance area of the Silberkammer”, Hofburg, Vienna
- Yo.V.A.3 - Young Viennese Architects
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Scholarship

2009 – 1995
- Award for „Arbeit Zeit Raum. Bilder und Bauten der Arbeit im Postfordismus” as one of Austrias best
_designed books
- 1st prize, invited competition for a kindergarden extension in Rohrendorf/Krems. Realization: 2008
- JAE Best Design Article Award 2005/2006, ACSA Philadelphia
- 2nd prize, invited competition „Boardinghouse Vienna” (with Rataplan, S.Valla)
- 2nd prize, „Hausbacken – Appetit auf Architektur”, with D. Robnik
- 1st prize and Jury recommendation for “Pink Trash” realisation of a public awareness project
_about trash, Vienna
- The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative Award, Mentor: Alvaro Siza
- Honorary Mention for „ATON´s EYE”, international competition, New Archeological Museum Kairo
_(with P. Achhorner / F. Winkler)
- Butler Travelling prize for „Sublime Excretions“, Princeton University, USA
- Fulbright Scholarship, Fulbright Commission, Vienna
- Tuition Grant, Princeton University, USA
- Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky prize for „Waste City“, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
- Bunkacho Fellowship, Ministry of Education and Science, Japan



PUBLICATIONS / LECTURES / EXHIBITIONS

2011
- "SOLIDARITY - How do democratic spaces occur?", curator of the main focus theme of the Ögfa 2011
- "Utopian Visions", in the context of the exhibition "Envisioning Buildings", MAK Vienna
- "16. Berliner Gespräch: Was soll Architektur?"(16th Berlin Talk: What's Architecture about?),
_Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAZ, Berlin
- "500 Meter Stadt am Ufer: Standort mit Potenzial, Aktuelle Pläne und Projekte",
_in the context of "Platz für die Stadt", Wien Museum, Vienna
- "Urbandrifters", Cooperation Willi Dorner with Gabu Heindl
- "Stadt forschen - forschen für die Stadt", in the context of urbanize! 2011, Architectural Center Vienna
- Pecha Kucha in the context of the Vienna Design Week, Vienna
- "Just City", lecture and workshop in the context of the exhibition "Compact City",
_4AM Forum for architecture and media, Brno
- "Out in prison", participation exhibition "On Your Marks - Sports and Society",
_Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden
- contribution "Kindergarten Rohrendorf" in: "ORTE | Architektur in Niederösterreich 2002 - 2010 Band 3"

2010
- lecture at the Institute for Architecture Science/Department for Architecture Theory
_in the context of the course “Contemporary Architecture”, TU Vienna
- „Was bleibt ist Arbeitsnorm - Vom Zeichensaal zur Kreativlounge“, lecture in the context of the symposium
_"Was bleibt von der Grazer Schule?", IAKK Institute for Architectural Theory, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, TU Graz
- 2010 NECS conference URBAN MEDIATIONS in Istanbul: film screening of
_"Mock-Ups in Close-Up - Architectural Models in Cinema 1927 – 2010"
- “Offener Kindergarten. Raum- und Materialpädagogik“, publication in: Zuschnitt 37, Vienna
- Artists' discussion Gabu Heindl with Willi Dorner, Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna
- “Sprechen über Architektur” (“Talking about architecture”), lecture in the context of the
_lecture series of the ZV - Zentralvereinigung der Architekten Österreichs, Vienna
- "Some Ideas for Better Cities", lecture at the symposium organized by raumlabor berlin, gallery NoD, Prague
- “New Frontiers. Experimental tendencies in architecture.” Exhibition participation,
_Design Factory Bratislava, Slovakia and Zumtobel Lichtforum, Vienna
- "Yo.V.A.3 - Young Viennese Architects", exhibition participation in the Kunsthalle Wien, project space
- “Wild translation”. A project by trafo.K & Gabu Heindl in the context of the exhibition
_"Utopia and the Everyday", Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Suisse
- “Tribute to Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky”, lecture, symposium "Beruf Architektin",
_Frauenmuseum, Hittisau/Vorarlberg

2009
- BYOB + Detour Pecha Kucha, 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture
- “Mock-ups in Close-up - Architectural Models in Cinema 1927 – 2009”, film screening and lecture
_(with D. Robnik), 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture
- "Walls and Work Turned Inside/Out. Relational Architecture and the Postfordist Condition",
_lecture at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty for Architecture
- „Mock-Ups in Close-Up“, film screening and lecture at Architekturfilmtage, Munich
- „Architektur als Medium des Erinnerns/Vergessens“, lecture at „The Material of Memory“,
_Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna
- „Who has built the Bridgehead Buildings? Deconstructing a construction job“, project presentation
_at Kepler Salon, Linz
- „Macht und Modell“, Webnote for Diagonale Film Festival
- „Das Leben in Zellen“, publication in: dérive 34, Vienna

2008
- presentation of „brut“: Architekturtage 2008
- „The Mighty Model“, publication in: Volume 16, Archis 2008 (with D. Robnik)
- „Schattenzeiten oder: Lob der Pause“, publication in: Kuckuck.
  Notizen zur Alltagskultur - Heft 1/08 „Raum-zeiten“, Graz
- „Cleaning up for tourism”, lecture at symposium “Tourism and Architecture”, TU Berlin
- „brut gebaut: Performativer Raum durch diagrammatische Materialität“, lecture at
  AG Architektursoziologie der DGS, TU-Darmstadt
- „Following Maps. Strolling before map24“, group exhibition „zoomandscale“, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- „Mock-Ups in Close-Up“, film screening and exhibition at Storefront for Art and Architecture,
  New York, USA (with D. Robnik)
- „Architecture displayed and displaced: extracting models from movies“,
  lecture at Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA

2007
- „Kitchen, Housework, Feminism“, artist talk Gabu Heindl with Gitte Villesen: „Ich bin keine Küche“,
_Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
- „Positions in exchange“, international symposium, concept and organisation (with M. Bogensberger), HDA Graz
- „Architecture 24/7 – an everyday relationship”, exhibition and program curator (with M. Bogensberger),
  HDA / steirischer herbst 2007
- „Wohnbau anderswo”, lecture at “Macht Wohnen arm?”, Graz
- „Architecture of relations”, lecture,Geidai University, Tokyo, Japan
- „Bitte sprechen! Postfordistische Arbeitsräume im theatralen Setting”, in: „Skizzen des Verschwindens”,
  Bosse/Nägele (eds.) revolver, Frankfurt/M.
- „ArbeitsZeitRäume”, international symposium, concept and organisation, IWK Vienna

2006
- „Inbetween: Diverse Activities”, Co-curater and exhibition architect
  (with C. Slanar), Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
- „lobby 4 lecture: Gabu Heindl recent works”, TU Graz
- „Work – exhibition and program curator (with M. Bogensberger), HDA / steirischer herbst 2006
- „and how flexible is your workspace?” exhibition/publication, GAM 03, Springer Verlag

2005
- „Bin City Las Vegas”, peer reviewed publication in: JAE 59/2, MIT Press, Nov. 2005
- „bar control”, interactive media installation, Long Night of Science Vienna (w. Alex Haw)
- „Bin City Las Vegas” at International Biennale Istanbul 2005
- „Wien between: Bratislava, Branding und Simmering”, lecture, Tanzquartier Wien
- „Gabu Heindl - recent projects”, lecture and workshop at Dep. of Architecture, Univ. of Liechtenstein

2004
- „PINK WALL”, installation, Bremer Zentrum für Baukultur
- „Bin City – the ultimate themepark“, lecture at exhibition opening of „Tourist City“, Bremen, Germany
- „Gabu Heindl – feedback #1“, lecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
- „Slow Space and Pink Trash“, lecture, Arch. School Bergen, Norway

2003
- „Highway time“, publication in: „Fast forward, a driving perception“, Indesem TU Delft 2003
- „Take off your shoes! - floors, flows, health and hygiene in R.M. Schindler‘s architecture“, publication in:
  „La Culture hygiénique: métaphores et allégories“, Lausanne

2002
„Öffnungen zum Aussen: Der Entwurf des Diagramms bei Deleuze und das Diagramm des Entwurfs bei OMA,
Eisenman und UN Studio“ (with D. Robnik), publication in: Umbau 19, Vienna