Study projects

News & Projects

The aim of the interdisciplinary approach in the study programme is to provide students with application-oriented, integrated approaches to urban development and to apply appropriate technical skills and methods. This page shows some results from the “Study Projects” in the first and second semeter, news and events related to the studies.

The "Study Projects" in the first and second semester, which is interdisciplinary in nature and where students practice their acquired skills on current topics with the guidance of professors. The study project focuses on a specific problem solution and combines scientific analysis methods with design and creative skills. The students' teamwork skills are promoted through collaboration in international teams. 

News & Projects

IUDD graduates win Europan 18 competition 2025

Agustín Azar (graduate M.Sc. IUDD), Egor Gaydukov (graduate M.Sc. IUDD), Uliana Zhomnir (graduate M.Sc. Architecture), and joint contributor Nicolás Schusterman (Bachelor student in Architecture at Torcuato Di Tella University / University of Buenos Aires) are winners of the EUROPAN 18 competition 2025.

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Study project: RothNEUsiedl - Planning process for a future-oriented urban development

The Study Project worked on an area located in Vienna: the “RothNEUsiedl.” This urban development aims to support the city’s urban growth with its future-oriented goals. The district is to be created as a role model not only in terms of climate resilience and adaptation but also in the promotion of social and cultural diversity. The students seeked to further develop the winning concept by worked on certain topics, one of which was urban agriculture.

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Excursion to Vienna

Excursion to Vienna between the 20th and the 23rd of May 2024 for the students in the study projects "Adaptive urban masterplans for Pidzamche in Lviv" and "RothNEUsiedl – Planning process for a future-oriented urban development".

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Research and Study Trip to Ethiopia 2023

As part of the IUDD Study Project „Integrated Urbanism - Adaptive Planning Strategies for Rural-Urban Transformation in Ethiopia“ and Research Project "INUMO" a group of 12 IUDD master students and one teacher made their way to Ethiopoa for a research and study trip from 07.-14 Mai 2023.

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Revitalizing cities through placemaking - symposium

With the focus of placemaking in Gera, Thüringen, the symposium presented collaborative processes of placemaking by which communities shape their public realm to create shared value, providing beneficial outcomes of urban adaptation through strategic design, social inclusoin, economic development and partcipatory democracy.

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Students honoured at the Global Schindler Award 2015

Two of our students, Hoai Phuong Tran and Xuan Duong Bui, received an honourable mention for their design work for the Global Schindler Award in Shenzhen (China) on 30 April 2015. The competition, which was endowed with 150,000 US dollars, aimed to develop sustainable planning concepts for the rapidly growing Chinese metropolitan region of Shenzhen.

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