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The exhibition brings this essential backdrop to light and asks what we can learn from temporary structures.<br>The fascination with temporary functional buildings has been a constant for the members of KOSMOS Architects ever since their student days. Over many years, they have collected examples of this ephemeral architecture \u2013 built for a limited time and yet full of lightness, precision and strength. This passion has given rise to a body of research that takes the temporary seriously as a distinct architectural category. They refer to these anonymous technical infrastructures as \u2018tektures\u2019, as the \u2018built environment itself\u2019 beyond \u2018author-driven\u2019 architecture. What can we learn from temporary structures? Conventional construction methods are often too slow and too inflexible to respond appropriately to changing challenges \u2013 whether social, economic, political, ecological, technological or climatic. Temporary structures arise from specific needs. They are functional, readily available and designed to be easily assembled, adapted and dismantled. This is precisely where their quality lies: they respond immediately to change and reveal what is truly needed in a given situation. As snapshots of reality, they are a direct reflection of societal demands \u2013 and a laboratory for an architecture that is learning to engage with resources, time and conditions in new ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Temporary. Structures of Necessity<\/strong><br>05.11.2026 \u2013 05.04.2027<br>Architekturzentrum Wien<br>Museumsplatz 1<br>1070 Vienna<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azw.at\">https:\/\/www.azw.at<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05.11.2026 \u2013 05.04.2027 Scaffolding, covers, etc. \u2013 so-called temporary layers \u2013 form a largely overlooked part of urban infrastructure. 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