‘New Frontiers, Experimental Tendencies in Architecture’ is an exhibition on emerging Austrian and Slovakian architecture, curated by Florian Medicus and Jan Bahna. It was first shown in Bratislava in March 2010 and will be hosted by ORTE in Vienna later this year. This text is a preface to the catalogue, a special issue of the Slovakian magazine ‘Projekt’. The photograph shows the contribution by the Innsbruck collective Coumbosnext.