In the past year, Hochhäusl was the Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her scholarly work centers on modern architecture and urban culture in Austria, Germany, and the United States, with a focus on the history of social movements, environmental history, and women’s and gender studies. Hochhäusl is the recipient of the Carter Manny Award by the Graham Foundation, the Bruno Zevi Award, and the Clearance Stein Fellowship in Landscape and Urban Studies. She received an MArch from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and an MA and PhD from Cornell University in History of Architecture and Urbanism.