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The state of Lower Austria is awarding a financial contribution totaling 160000 euros for the ORTE architecture network of Lower Austria for the years 2022 and 2023. This decision was recently made at a meeting of the Lower Austrian state government on the initiative of the governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner. The ORTE architecture network makes a valuable contribution to the research and communication of model buildings and thus takes on a demanding educational mandate within the framework of the architecture days in our state says Governor Mikl-Leitner with satisfaction.The association ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Niedersterreich is one of the nine architecture houses in Austria that strive to improve the quality of the regional building culture and fulfill an important educational and socio-political mandate with lectures and other mediation programs.The respective annual program includes different focal points such as lectures panel and public discussions with and by experts on the task of architectural criticism as well as symposiums on housing and the role of municipalities in settlement policy. Proven formats such as the Lower Austrian housing breakfast are supplemented by guided excursions and construction site visits to research and communicate model buildings and their locations in Lower Austria.Specially developed free workshops for all school levels in Lower Austria are offered by ORTE as a significant contribution to the communication and understanding of Baukultur developments in the individual regions. In addition ORTE oversees the AIR program Lower Austria in the architecture section the collection of Lower Austrian architecture in the building database NEXTROOM and the Walter Zschokke library.
