Gabu Heindl
Gabu Heindl, Vienna, 10 November 2025
“It’s just not right that housing shortages are being exploited for profit.”
“We’re sitting here in the middle of ‘Schlor – Schöner leben ohne Rendite’ [– Better Living without Yield].” As the location for this video portrait in the Viennese district of Simmering, architect and architectural theorist Gabu Heindl has chosen a particularly striking example of her recent work. Heindl, who also teaches in Kassel, is known for projects that counter free market dynamics by establishing the right to people-centered urban planning in spaces where conflicts can be allowed to play out. She speaks about her years of mentorship with Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, about an essay on productive non-solutions co-written with Drehli Robnik, and about how it’s often precisely those projects that didn’t come to fruition—along with their attendant questions—that remain as current as ever.
“It’s just not right that housing shortages are being exploited for profit.”
“We’re sitting here in the middle of ‘Schlor – Schöner leben ohne Rendite’ [– Better Living without Yield].” As the location for this video portrait in the Viennese district of Simmering, architect and architectural theorist Gabu Heindl has chosen a particularly striking example of her recent work. Heindl, who also teaches in Kassel, is known for projects that counter free market dynamics by establishing the right to people-centered urban planning in spaces where conflicts can be allowed to play out. She speaks about her years of mentorship with Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, about an essay on productive non-solutions co-written with Drehli Robnik, and about how it’s often precisely those projects that didn’t come to fruition—along with their attendant questions—that remain as current as ever.