Michael Fürst
born 1981, Vienna, Austria
education/research:
1999-2009 Studies of Architecture on Technical University Vienna, ETS Architecture and School of Fine Arts
Seville, Spain
2006 three months of research in the suburban ger-district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia,
2009 graduating from TU Vienna, obtaining the ‘Diplom-Ingenieur‘ aquivalent to ’Master of Architecture’
2010 free resarch grant TU Vienna: ‘informal settlements’ in Jakkarta and Ulaanbaatar.
projects:
2004 Design and construction of a loadbearing strawbale bungalow for touristic use in Cadìz, Spain
2007 Founding of the association ‘in the name of architecture’
2008: organisation of a one week event: architects - Gemeinde Wien city planners - students of the three
viennese architectural universities was given space to confront each other in discussions a.o. about the
future of architectural education. www.itnoa.org
2008 Plan for appliance for the first multi-storey strawbalehouse in Vienna. (execution in progress)
2005-2009 work on various open competitions
2010 Artist in Residence in Pori, Finland. Participation at ‘The Bare House Project, Rotterdam - Pori - Ulaan
baatar’ (www.poriartmuseum.fi)
lecturing:
2007 Summer lecturer at the Mongolian University for Science and Technology
2008 Teaching students in a self organized design class with the goal to develop , energysufficient dwellings for
the austrian ecovillage. (www.oekodorf.or.at)
2009 Assistence at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna. Institute of Structural
Engineering.
2010 Lecture at Pori art School , Finland
