Announcement

The MSL Centre has a new director!

Ulrike Matzer has headed the Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Center since October 2024. She is an art historian, cultural scientist, author and critic. Her focus is on photography, the history of modern architecture, gender studies and visual culture.
 
In 2019, she completed her doctorate at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and her dissertation on early Viennese professional female photographers was awarded the Johanna Dohnal Prize in 2021.

The architectural and cultural history of Vienna, photography and feminism are at the heart of Ulrike Matzer's publications: She is one of the authors of the book Finding Ella Briggs. The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect and the Global Quest to Find Her (2025) and editor of Marianne Strobl, “Industrie-Photograph‘’ 1894-1914 (2017).
As part of the preparation of the Conservation Management Plan for the Villa Rezek, Vienna (2021) and the monumental analysis of the Otto Wagner Areal (2024), she was also increasingly involved in questions of building research and monument preservation.

“I am delighted to take on this exciting task and would like to work with our team to convey Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's life, work and social commitment in an accessible way."

Christine Zwingl, the founder and previous director of the MSL Center, will continue to work for the MSL Center as head of research on Architektur Pionierinnen.

 
Photo © Julia Bertermann
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