Image: Taiyo Watanabe. Installation view. Zara Pfeifer, “El Archivo”, 2022.

Imaging: Architectural Photography with Zara Pfeifer is a workshop where participants are invited to share their photographs and work in a convivial space. Learn about Zara’s practice and connect with other students who are exploring architecture through photography. 

Open to architecture students of all levels, artists and photographers whose work is concerned with architectural topics. Please fill out this short registration form since there is limited space. Bring an image, series or questions to discuss with the group. 

Zara pfeifer

Zara Pfeifer is an artist based in Vienna and Berlin whose work is concerned with the social phenomena of large-scale infrastructure. Her documentation of the modernist housing project Alterlaa (“Du, meine konkrete Utopie,” 2013-17) and her series on truck drivers (“Good Street!,” 2018-2022) involves extended periods of immersion in the day-to-day life of her subjects. She has worked with institutions, including the MAK Center in Los Angeles and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Berlin. Her publications include Monocle, ZEITmagazin, and Monopol, and she has received a studio grant at ISCP New York from the Austrian Federal Government. Her book ICC Berlin was published in 2022 by Jovis Verlag. Pfeifer studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and photography at the Friedl Kubelka School for Artistic Photography in Vienna. She holds lecturing positions at the Technical University Vienna and the Technical University Berlin.