ABSTRACT
Paolo Baratta, president of the Venice architecture Biennale, recalled “that time seems to be characterized by increasing disconnection between architecture and civil society.” Many projects presented at the 2016 Architectural Biennale in Venice showed another picture. They gave hope for inspiring societal, spatial, programmatic, material and aesthetic alternatives, for a re-imagination of the professional self-image and for extended occupational profiles of architects. Peter Staub, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of University of Liechtenstein, explicitly: sees all goals relevant for the work of the architect because in all the mentioned fields the architect can be active. The architect is very versatile, in the sense that he or she adapts to conditions and possibilities of a given context and can contribute with imaginative (architectural) solutions. The architects developed the idea together with the land owners. It is the “Smart City Project” in Graz, a whole urban quarter with 130.000 m2. It was the architects who first wrote and proposed the programme.
