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2025 Research and Science Awards to IKA graduates

2025 Research and Science Awards to IKA graduates Ferdinand Klopfer, Waltraud P. Indrist, and Lisa Penz

As part of the Federal Chamber of Civil Engineers' program to promote emerging architects, the Federal Section of Architects presented its Architecture Research Award. On October 16, 2025, the 2025 Research and Science Awards for particularly innovative theses in the field of architecture were presented at the Architekturzentrum Wien. We congratulate the award winners.

Research Awards 2025:
Ferdinand Klopfer, Das Ried. Archē and Archives in a Bog between Borders (2021-2024)
Lisa Penz, Unsteady Ground (2024)

Science Award 2025:
Waltraud P. Indrist, Performative Architectural Photographs. The Relationship between Architecture, Media, and Politics in the Work of Hans Scharoun between 1933 and 1939.