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Exhibition Tour with Dr. Wolfgang Forster, curator of The Vienna Model

June 28, 2017

$15

Time: TBC

Förster will lead participants through the exhibition as he discusses sustainability, public housing models and the central strategies of The Vienna Model.

Wolfgang Förster (PhD) is the coordinator of IBA-Vienna (the 2020-2022 international building exhibition on New Social Housing). Wolfgang works in his own company PUSH-Consulting (Partners on Urbanism and Sustainable Housing). Since 2001 he has been Head of the Vienna Housing Research. He is a Delegate of Austria to the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management, and Chair of this Committee since 2009. Wolfgang also chairs the EUROCITIES Working Group on Housing and has been coordinator of several EU-projects. In 2013 Förster suffered a stroke which interrupted his professional career for two years. In 2015, he received the honorary Medal for Achievements for the Federal State of Vienna. Förster studied architecture, planning and political sciences in Vienna and Graz.

Details

Date:
June 28, 2017
Cost:
$15
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Website:
http://www.museumofvancouver.ca/programs/calendar

Venue

Museum of Vancouver
1100 Chestnut Street
Vancouver , BC Canada

Organizer

Museum of Vancouver
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