Last month, associate Professor David Lieberman was invited to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as an external reviewer for two of the graduate programs in architecture: Kathrin Aste's Geography, Landscape, Cities and Hannes Stiefel's ​Ecology, Sustainability, Conservation. The studios addressed the evolution of the discourse and discipline as evidenced by the spatial development of models of architectural education.

During his visit, Lieberman conducted Master Class seminars and workshops on compositional strategies in response to the political, cultural, and technological issues of architecture in the anthropocene. Vienna has been critical to the development of David Lieberman's work and was foundational to his education.

Said Lieberman about his visit:

​This trip is a tribute to Hans Hollein for introducing me to Wittgenstein as a thinker and to exposing me to the theatricity and range of practice, to Swi and Prix of Coop Himmelblau who gave me the confidence to dream and to pursue my imagination, to Raimund Abraham who taught me to draw and of whom I think of each time I pick up a pencil, to Bernhard Leitner for his work on Wittgenstein and for the pleasure of debate on architecture, music, and acoustics, to Martin Riese of Front Inc for the stories of his childhood in the City, to Henny Gestetner who made the most extraordinary sachertorte, to Gustav Klimt and shifting to Berlin, Max Liebermann for showing me that the birch forest of my youth in the Canadian west had other possibilities.