Gabu Heindl

Gabu Heindl is an architect, urban planner, and activist in Vienna as well as professor and head of the department Architecture Cities Economies | Building Economy and Project Development at the University of Kassel. Her office, GABU Heindl Architecture, focuses on public space, public buildings, common-ownership, and non-market housing as well as collaborations in the fields of history, politics, and critical artistic practice. From 2013 to 2017 she was chair of the ÖGFA – Austrian Society for Architecture.

Gabu holds a doctorate and studied architecture in Vienna, Tokyo, and Princeton University. She has taught at Sheffield University, TH Nuremberg, and the Architectural Association. She lectures frequently and has published numerous articles and books including (as co-editor) Building Critique, Architecture and its Discontents (Spector Books 2019), Stadtkonflikte. Radikale Demokratie in Architektur und Stadtplanung (Mandelbaum 2020), and (with Drehli Robnik) Nonsolution (adocs 2024).