Frauen-Werk-Stadt
Frauen-Werk-Stadt is a housing estate in Floridsdorf, Vienna. It turns up in Can Urban Design Have a Gender? In This Vienna District, the Answer Is Yes. - The New York Times (Valeriya Safronova): It is the prototype that led to the later approach realized in Seestadt.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can Urban Design Have a Gender? In This Vienna District, the Answer Is Yes. - The New York Times | Valeriya Safronova | turning point | Kail’s first big experiment: an apartment complex designed by four female architects. |
Can Urban Design Have a Gender? In This Vienna District, the Answer Is Yes. - The New York Times — Valeriya Safronova (2024)
Source: Can Urban Design Have a Gender? · Original · Readwise highlight
In 1997, she unveiled Frauen-Werk-Stadt (Women-Work-City), a 357-unit apartment complex designed by four female architects to address what they felt were the needs of women at the time.
- Role: turning point
- In the article: Kail’s first big experiment: an apartment complex designed by four female architects. Its lessons (spacious well-lit storage and laundry rooms, naturally lit stairwells, playgrounds) became assessment criteria for Vienna’s housing investment, and resident surveys showed high satisfaction. The text does not say where in Vienna it stands.
- Why it matters: It is the prototype that led to the later approach realized in Seestadt. The article gives no street location; the coordinates come from German Wikipedia (Donaufelder Strasse 99, Floridsdorf), not from the text.