About

Margula Architects

Itai Margula is an architect, designer, exhibition designer and freelance curator with an office in Vienna. With his team he develops exhibition formats for museums, publications and art books as well as individual design solutions and architectural projects.

Itai Margula studied at the Vienna University of Technology, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Slade School of Fine Arts in London.

He received great attention in 2018/2019 with his scenography for the exhibition "Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and other Treasures" curated by Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, which was also on view at the Fondazione Prada in Milan in 2019/2020.

Itai Margula developed the furnishings for the Generali Arena in Vienna (together with Atelier Mauch) and has worked as a designer for the MAK, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Belvedere, Weltmuseum, Jewish Museum Vienna, National Library of Israel and the Secession. For the MAK as well as the Architekturzentrum Wien, Margula also developed different mediation concepts together with the respective departments as well as a catalog for the material library.

At the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale, Margula's work on visible and invisible urban realities was exhibited and published. At Michael Embacher's office, he was responsible for the realization of numerous exhibition designs for permanent and temporary shows in international museums. Since 2017 he has been developing design solutions for museums and private clients with his architectural practice Margula Architects. In 2024 he had a guest professorship at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Klasse Fotografie Gabriele Rothemann.

Photo ©David Payr

TEACHING

  • Visiting Professor, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Klasse Fotografie

Exhibition design and architecture

Upcoming

  • Mumok, Nikima Jagudajev

  • Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kunstkammer Neuberger

2024

  • Mumok, Impulstanz

  • National Library of Israel: Exhibition furniture for the temporary exhibition rooms as well as design of the first temporary exhibition.
    (June 2022 – Opening of the new building by Herzog & de Meuron)


    2023

  • Museum am Judenplatz, foyer and cash desk design

  • Heidi Horten Collection, RENDEZ-VOUS

  • Chocolate Museum Bailuwan, technical coordination for Mischa Draxler, China

  • Apartment Vienna, Singerstraße


    2022

  • Belvedere Vienna: Dali – Freud. An Obsession.

  • re:pair Festival, Festival headquarters design

2021

  • Belvedere Vienna: Dürer's Time. Austria at the gateway to the Renaissance

  • Memento Mori Festival: Design of the festival headquarters

  • Loft Vienna: complete renovation and front room design

  • Library: Interior design of a living area in the attic conversion of Embacher/Co.

  • David Promenade Residences Tel Aviv: Conversion residential loft

  • Erdbergstraße: ground floor and facade renovation

  • Shared Office: Design of a shared meeting room

  • Torah shrine: Design of the Torah shrine of a post-war synagogue

  • Weltmuseum Vienna: JUMP!STAR Simmering

2020

  • Jewish Museum Vienna, 100 Years of Wizo (November 2020)

  • Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warschau: Ursula Mayer (September 2020)

  • White House Vienna: Photo School Friedl Kubelka - Anniversary Exhibition 30 Years Photo School (September 2020)

  • Secession Vienna: Verena Dengler (July 2020)

  • Museum of Applied Arts: Bekelit - The Georg Kargl Collection (July 2020)

  • Sconarium: Congress- and Exhibition Hall: Margula Architects, Aterliermauch, Checkpoint Media

    2019

  • Otto Prutscher, MAK Brtnice - Birthplace of Josef Hoffmann

  • Jewish Museum Vienna: Let´s Dance! The Viennese cafetier Otto Pollak

  • Belvedere Vienna: Wolfgang Paalen (1905-59), The Austrian Surrealist in Paris and Mexico

  • Fondazione Prada Milano: Il Sarcofago die Spitzmaus e altri Tesori

  • Museum of Applied Arts / Josef Hoffmann Birthplace: Josef Hoffmann – Otto Prutscher

  • Museum of Applied Arts: MAK Design Lab / Reinstallation in the context of the Vienna Biennale for Change

    2018

  • Generali Arena: Overall furniture planning and FAK Museum: Margula Architects & Ateliermauch

  • Galerie Nächst St. Stephan: Exhibition stand Art Basel / Hong Kong

  • Museum of Applied Arts / Josef Hoffmann Birthplace: Josef Hoffman - Kolomann Moser

  • Weltmuseum Vienna: Out of the Box - Moving Worlds

  • Museum of Art History Vienna: Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and other Treasures

  • Muntean / Rosenblum: Artists Studio and Library

  • Kolomann Moser, MAK Brtnice - Josef Hoffmann Birthplace

  • Revitalization of a square farm and workshop conversion into a residential loft, Tulln

2017

  • Otto Wagner, MAK Brtnice - Josef Hoffmann Birthplace

2016

  • Josef Frank, MAK Brtnice - Josef Hoffmann Birthplace

2015

  • Das Haus Tugendhat, MAK

  • Amie Siegel: Provenance, MAK

  • The private Hoffmann, MAK Brtnice - Josef Hoffmann Birthplace

2014

  • Schwadron Brothers: New Places and Traces, MAK

  • Der private Hoffmann, MAK Brtnice - Josef Hoffmann Birthplace

  • Collegiality and controversy, MAK Brtnice - Josef Hoffmann Birthplace

    2011

  • Apply: Taste Art, MAK

CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS

ONGOING

  • SOIREE BERKSON: die-andere-seite.com

2020

  • Interview with Sheila Hicks (Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts, November 2020)

  • Weißes Haus Wien: Photo School Friedl Kubelka - Anniversary Exhibition 30 Years Photo School (September 2020)

2019

  • UTE MÜLLER: in conversation with Pieternel Vermoortel 

2017

  • KAY WALKOWIAK: in conversation with Verena Gamper

  • KAY WALKOWIAK: Gestimmte Räume I, Requiem of Lost Forms (exhibition and publication)

  • NATHALIE ROZANES: in conversation with Gabriele Schor

  • JULIAN PALACZ: in conversation with Magdalena Stöger

  • SHERINE ANIS: in conversation with Matthias Kaiser

2016

  • ROBERTA LIMA: in conversation with Erika Artaker

  •  JULIA ZASTAVA: in conversation with Philipp Levar

  • KERSTIN VON GABAIN: in conversation with Sebastian Hackenschmidt

  • KATRIN HORNEK: in conversation with Michael Wagreich

  • CHRISTOPH MEIER: in conversation with Peter Pakesch

  • ART N MORE: in conversation with Art n More

2015

  • ULRIKE KÖPPINGER: in conversation with Jenni Tischer

  • ANDREAS GREINER: in conversation with Erich Pucher

  •  JOHANNES WECKL: in conversation with Thea Hoffmann Axthelm

  • SISSA MICHELI: in conversation with Roland Fischer-Briand

  •  JENNI TISCHER: in conversation with Ulrike Köppinger

2014

  • VALENTIN RUHRY: in conversation with Christian Witt-Dörring

  • UNEVEN GROWTH: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Magacities, MAK, Wien

2010

  • IN THE ABSENCE OF RAIMUND ABRAHAM, Editing for the book on the occasion of the Vienna Architecture Conference 2010 at MAK,
    publisher: Peter Növer (MAK) and Wolf D. Prix (University of Applied Arts) 

  • MAK-KARTEI, Establishment of the material library and object registration of the collection at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna