Founded in March 2018, MAGAZIN is a nonprofit exhibition space for contemporary architecture located in Vienna, Austria. It showcases the work of local and international architects through solo exhibitions specially conceived for its venue on Rembrandtstrasse, complemented by related lectures and discussions. Committed to presenting a diverse range of architectural perspectives, MAGAZIN challenges conventional views of the architectural profession. It seeks to amplify the visibility of projects that lie outside the production of commercial architecture and supports the continued exploration of these ideas by funding the creation of new work. The 2025–26 program features solo exhibitions by Lesia Topolnyk / StudioSpaceStation (Rotterdam), Paula Strunden (Vienna), Bahar Avanoğlu (Istanbul), and Daryan Knoblauch (Berlin/London).

Bahar Avanoğlu is an architect-researcher with an interest in architectural drawing in relation to esoteric practices, engaging with artistic research methods. She received her PhD from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) with her thesis “Un-Claiming the Experience of the Ends of the Projected Image: The Loss and the Survivals of Architectural Drawing in the Shadow of Projection” (2024). She holds a bachelor’s of architecture and master’s of science from ITU, and a post-professional master’s of architecture from The Cooper Union. She teaches design and drawing studios at Istanbul Bilgi University and MEF University. She initiated DrawingConstructions as an experimental project in 2017. Both her own artistic research works and collective drawing projects have been exhibited internationally, including Versus Art Project (2024); WAAC (Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, 2023); Centre de Design de l’UQAM (2021); and  Nordic Embassies Berlin (2021). She is the coorganizer of the exhibition Unbuildings (Versus Art Project, 2024).

Daryan Knoblauch is director of the eponymous Berlin/London-based architecture studio using space as an infrastructure to stage, observe, and challenge the classical notions of the profession. Interested in the feedback loop between contemporary movements, the environment and invisible structures that constitute daily life, research is undertaken through built design. His approach is articulated in form of cultural centers, ephemeral pavilions, and devices for artistic performances. Daryan Knoblauch teaches as a studio master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and is an associate lecturer at the Royal College of art in London.

Paula Strunden is a transdisciplinary artist with a background in architecture. She has worked with Herzog & de Meuron and Raumlabor Berlin and completed her doctoral thesis on multisensory perception in extended reality models (xRM), which was awarded the prize for best research work 2023–24 by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her xRM have been nominated twice for the Dutch Golden Calf film award and presented internationally at institutions such as the Royal Academy of Arts London, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and Ars Electronica Linz. She also researches the role of women in virtual technologies, founded the platform xr-atlas.org, and has taught at leading architecture and art universities in Europe, including as a visiting professor for Emerging Technologies and Design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.

Lesia Topolnyk is an architect, artist, researcher, and film director based in the Neth­erlands, working internationally. Raised in a constantly changing political environment and educated as an architect, she explores how different realities superimpose on human behavior and manifest in physical space. Through dialogue with various disciplines and mediums, spatial design becomes a language that shapes the crucial interaction between visible and invisible processes, bridging global and local concerns. Topolnyk founded Studio Space Station to respond to urgent societal and planetary issues, operating across architecture, politics, and art. She has received numerous Dutch and international awards, including the prestigious Prix de Rome.

Jerome Becker is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven (Brussels), and codirector of MAGAZIN, an independent exhibition space for contemporary architecture in Vienna. He earned his master’s degree in architecture from TU Wien, where he later worked as a teaching and research assistant. In addition to his involvement in editorial projects such as ADATO and dérive, Becker is an organizer of the Vienna Architecture Summer School. His PhD research, funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund, explores the politics of time in Vienna’s municipal housing program and the temporal dispositions of domestic space.

Matthias Moroder studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, art history and philosophy at the University of Vienna, and history and theory of architecture (MAS) at the Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule Zurich / Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). Since 2015, he has been working with Sebastian Bietenhader at Büro Bietenhader Moroder (Vienna/Zurich). In 2018, he cofounded MAGAZIN, an independent exhibition space for architecture in Vienna. He is a PhD candidate at the Department of Art History of the University of Vienna working on a thesis on the architectural theory and architecture of Viennese architect Hermann Czech. In 2022, Moroder also cofounded the Vienna Architecture Summer School. He has been teaching architecture as well as architectural history and theory at various (non)institutions.

MAGAZIN is a nonprofit exhibition space for contemporary architecture in Vienna, Austria. MAGAZIN presents the work of local and international architects in solo exhibitions specifically conceived for its spaces on Rembrandtstrasse, accompanied by corresponding lectures and discussions. The exhibition space is dedicated to showcasing a broad spectrum of distinct architectural perspectives that challenge normative understandings of the architectural profession. MAGAZIN aims to increase the visibility of projects situated outside the realm of commercial architectural production and to support the further development of these explorations by funding the creation of new work. Since its founding, MAGAZIN has produced 32 solo exhibitions, featuring, among others, Space Popular (Oviedo), TAKK Architecture (Barcelona), Marc Leschelier (Paris), feminist architecture collaborative (New York), Christine Bjerke (Copenhagen), Nana Biamah-Ofosu (London), Nina Kolowratnik (Vienna), Takayuki Bamba (Tokyo), and Comunal (Mexico City).