Michael Obrist is one of the five founding partners of feld72 Architekten in Vienna and a university professor at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). Since 2018, he has been Professor of Housing and Design, holder of the chair, and Head of the Research Department for Housing and Design at TU Wien.
Since 2025 he is also the Head of the Institute for Architecture and Design at TU Wien.
Visiting professorships: Politecnico di Milano, University of Arts Linz, Master Class Public Art at the Salzburg Summer Academy, Architectural Association Visiting School in Slovenia.
Previous teaching appointments: TU Graz, Bergen School of Architecture, Norway.
Together with Sabine Pollak and Lorenzo Romito, he was the curator of the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2025.
He has numerous publications, including guest editor of ARCH+ 244: “Vienna – The End of Housing (as a Typology)” (English version with Spector Books, 2024), ARCH+ „Agency for Better Living: Vienna / Roma“ (Spector Books, 2025) and “The Last Grand Tour” (with Antonietta Putzu), Park Books, 2023.
The work of feld72 has, since the firm’s founding in 2002, operated at the intersection of architecture, applied urbanism, and art. The team of 35 members, led by partners Anne Catherine Fleith, Michael Obrist, Mario Paintner, Richard Scheich, and Peter Zoderer, has realized numerous projects of various scales in both national and international contexts, ranging from masterplans and buildings to urban strategies and large-scale interventions in public space.
The work of feld72 has received numerous awards (including several Austrian State Prizes, the City of Vienna Prize for Architecture, as well as the Gold Medal of Italian Architecture) and has been presented multiple times at various biennials (Venice 2025, 2016, 2011, 2010, 2008, 2004, Shenzhen–Hong Kong 2009, São Paulo 2007, Rotterdam 2003) as well as in museums worldwide.