DI Katharina Keimelmayr

I completed my architecture studies at the Vienna University of Technology in 2015. I then gained valuable experience in several architecture practices, working on projects of very different scales. The years I spent in housing shaped me particularly strongly.

In 2026 I passed the Austrian chartered architect examination and took the step into self-employment. With my own studio I can realise my ideas of good architecture — guiding projects personally, individually and with great commitment, from the first idea to completion.

My view of architecture has been shaped by housing projects. It is with large housing developments that the quality of good planning becomes most visible. It is not the size of a room that makes it worth living in, but the way it can be used by the people who live there.

The challenge of achieving the greatest possible quality of living, functionality and atmosphere within a limited area still fascinates me. For me, good architecture emerges through intelligent floor plans, a coherent sense of space and a deliberate approach to light, materials and proportion.

I love beauty, but beauty alone is not enough. My aim is to create spaces that are functional, timeless and individual — spaces that reflect the personality of the people who use them and create an atmosphere of their own.

Because to me, architecture has succeeded when it is more than mere design. When spaces emerge that feel right and fit the people who use them.