YoVa was established in 2005 as an initiative to support young Viennese architects from the City of Vienna. In addition to a juried application process, participating architects must be under the age of 45, have a practice based in Vienna, and have realized at least one project there.

While the focus of YoVa 1-3 was a series of exhibitions, the results of YoVa 4 will be published exclusively in this publication. For the first time, young Viennese landscape architects were also allowed to apply.
In November 2014, eleven young, Viennese architectural and landscape architectural practices were selected from applications submitted under the jury chaired by Bart Lootsma: Lukas Göbl, einzueins architektur, franz-architekten, zwoPK Landschaftsarchitektur, Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten, architekt günter mohr, idealice, LOSTINARCHITECTURE, miss_vdr architektur, space craft ARCHITEKTUR und bauchplan.