'Women build the city': Vienna's space for female architects

Schechtner (left) and Czaja, curators of the architecture exhibition "Women build the city", at Vienna's suburb Seestadt in Austria. Photo: Joe Klamar/AFP

Women may hold up half the sky, but when it comes to designing the public spaces and buildings in which they live, their voices have too often been silenced.

A visionary project in Vienna aims to turn that notion on its head, with a suburb in the Austrian capital designed by and for women.