Max Utech is a licensed architect based between Vienna, Berlin and Paris, working in urbanism, architecture and art. His focus lies on the inclusive and affordable development of our urban habitat towards a transformative, caring and empowering environment.
He currently teaches and researches at the Institute of Housing and Design at TU Wien and was among others guest reviewer for the AA London, ENSA Belleville Paris, ESA Paris, ENSA Versailles and Politecnico di Milano.
He was awarded the Schütte-Lihotzky and Hans-Hollein scholarships by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art and Culture. He has been a resident at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, at the ZK/U - Centre for Art and Urbanism in Berlin and was a fellow of LINA - the European Architecture Platform for Emerging Practitioners.
Together with Bernadette Krejs he is founder of Palace of Un/Learning - an artistic-activist intervention, that is exploring, inventing, negotiating and sharing counter-hegemonic design strategies providing un/built structures for a most possible diverse (queer-feminist) urban society. In 2023 they were able to collaborate with Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona, Oslo Architecture Triennale, Irish Architecture Foundation Dublin, Design Academy Eindhoven, Viper Gallery, UMPRUM Prague and Archfondas Vilnius.
Magdalena Steininger