Bruno Kreisky Prize for the book "Cooperative Conditions – A Primer on Architecture, Finance, and Regulation in Zurich"

On April 1, the Austrian Karl-Renner-Institut awarded the Bruno-Kreisky Prize to the book “Cooperative Conditions – A Primer on Architecture, Finance, and Regulation in Zurich,” written by Prof. Anne Kockelkorn, Dr. Susanne Schindler, and Rebekka Hirschberg.

The Bruno-Kreisky Prize for Political Literature has been awarded since 1993 by the Karl-Renner-Institut, the political academy of the Austrian Social Democratic movement. In 2023, the prize was expanded to include the category of “social-ecological housing and living together,” highlighting the importance of housing questions for social-democratic politics in the present.

We are very proud that this book, written by two researchers from our Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, has been selected as the jury’s 2024 laureate. It is a special honor that the award ceremony took place at the Architecture Museum in Vienna, the European city with the most longstanding practice of “Gemeinnützigkeit” in housing governance.

Anne Kockelkorn brings her expertise in the field of housing to the department, for instance, through her survey lecture on Urban questions in historical perspective: housing. Susanne Schindler is a Research fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. Rebekka Hirschberg has been pursuing her PhD research on the Architecture of Gemeinnützigkeit in Vienna at our department since 2023.

Learn more about the jury’s decision here or look at some pictures from the award ceremony by photographer Astrid Knie.