Hans Hollein

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Birth Date:
30.03.1934
Death date:
24.04.2014
Length of life:
80
Days since birth:
32872
Years since birth:
89
Days since death:
3627
Years since death:
9
Extra names:
Ханс Холляйн, Hans Hollein
Categories:
Architect, Designer
Nationality:
 austrian
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Hans Hollein (30 March 1934 – 24 April 2014) was an Austrian architect and designer. In 1985 Hollein was awarded the Pritzker Prize.

Biography

Hollein was born in Vienna, and received a diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1956. During 1959 he attended the Illinois Institute of Technology and then in 1960, the University of California located in Berkeley. Afterwards, he worked for various agencies in Sweden and the United States of America before returning to Vienna, founding his own agency in 1964.

Hollein was a guest professor at Washington University in St. Louis on two separate occasions, the first period was from 1963-4 and the second during 1966. During this period he was also a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture. From 1967 to 76 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. Since 1976 he has been a professor at the The University of Applied Arts Vienna (German: Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien.

Hollein worked mainly as an architect but also established himself as a designer through his work for the Memphis Group and the Alessi Company.

Additionally, he staged various exhibitions, including for the Biennale in Venice. In 1980 he designed the stage for a production of Arthur Schnitzler's drama Komödie der Verführung (Comedy of Seduction) at Vienna's Burgtheater.

Since 2010 he worked with Christoph Monschein at the Hans Hollein & Partner ZT GmbH.

Main works

  • 1964-1965 : Retti candle shop, Vienna, Austria Photo
  • 1972 : Schullin Jewellery shop, Vienna
  • 1972-1982 : Abteiberg Museum Mönchengladbach
  • 1983 : Rauchstrasse in Berlin
  • 1987-1991 : Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main
  • 1990 : Haas-Haus in Vienna
  • 1992-2002 : Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, St. Pölten, Austria
  • 1996-2001 : Austrian Embassy in Berlin Photos
  • 1997-2002 : Centrum Bank in Vaduz (Principality of Liechtenstein) in collaboration with Bargetze+Partner
  • 1997-2002 : Vulcania - European Centre of Vulcanology in Auvergne, France Photos
  • 2001-2003 : Albertina (Vienna) (museum)
  • 2004-2008 : Hilton hotel, Vienna
  • 1996-2000 : Interbank Headquarters, Lima, Peru
  • 1994-2000 : Generali Media Tower Donaukanal, Vienna
  • Guggenheim ('Museum im Mönchsberg'), Salzburg, Austria (planning 1989-)
  • Ganztagsschule, Vienna
  • 1977-1978 : Glass and Ceramics house, Teheran, Iran
  • 1967-1969 : Feigen Gallery, New York
  • 2006-2011 : Pezet 515, Lima
  • 2007: Sea Mio, Apartment-Towers, Taipei, Taiwan

Prizes

  • Reynolds Memorial Award (1966 and 1984)
  • Architecture of the City of Vienna, (1974)
  • Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture (1983)
  • Pritzker Architecture Prize (1985)
  • Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1990)
  • Gold Decoration for Services to Vienna (1994)
  • Grand Merit Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1997)
  • Officer of the Legion of Honour (France, 2003)
  • Honorary Medal of the Austrian capital Vienna in Gold (2004)
  • Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria (2009)
  • Golden Rathausmann (2009)

Source: wikipedia.org

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