The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st Century City was an exhibition of Vienna's extraordinary public housing achievements since 2007. The exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, highlights how about 60% of Vienna's population lives in municipally built, owned, or managed housing—a stark contrast to the U.S. private market approach. Rather than focusing solely on architectural design, the curators emphasized the communal components of Viennese housing such as kindergartens, swimming pools, and meeting rooms, while incorporating artistic perspectives from Vancouver and Vienna-based researchers Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber.

Located in the extraordinary home of the Austrian Cultural Forum, the only built work of architect Raimund Abraham, the exhibition displayed a combination of data displays, architectural drawings, and photograph mounted on 20mm cardboard panels and affixed to a typical New York city scaffolding system. The installation spanned three floors of the building.