Hans Hollein

Hans Hollein
Hollein in 1976
Born	30 March 1934 (1934-03-30) Vienna, Austria
Died	24 April 2014 (2014-04-25) (aged 80) Vienna, Austria
Nationality	Austrian
Alma mater	Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Occupation	Architect

Hans Hollein (30 March 1934 – 24 April 2014) was an Austrian

Hollein's early works were small scale designs, such as the Retti candle shop in Vienna, which notably featured a facade constructed of anodized aluminum.[8]

In 1972, Hollein designed a series of glasses for the American Optical Corps.^[8]

Hollein was a guest professor at Washington University in St. Louis on two separate occasions, the first being 1963–64 and the second in 1966. During this period he was also a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture. He was a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1967 and 1976, after which he became a professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.^[9]

Hollein worked mainly as an architect but also established himself as a designer through his work for the

Hollein achieved international fame with his winning competition designs for the Abteiberg Museum in Mönchengladbach (1972–82) and an underground Guggenheim Museum branch in Salzburg (1989). The later hasn't been built, but his ideas for an underground museum still materialised in the Vulcania European Centre of Vulcanology in Auvergne in France (1997–2002).^[1]

Starting from the late 1990s, Hollein designed large-scale projects, including bank headquarters in Lichtenstein, Spain and Peru.^[1] Starting from 2010 he worked with Ulf Kotz and Christoph Monschein at the Hans Hollein & Partner ZT GmbH.^[9]

Hollein died on 24 April 2014 in Vienna, after a long illness, at the age of 80.^[1]

His son

Main works

• 1964–65 : Retti candle shop, Vienna, Austria
• 1967–69 : Feigen Gallery, New York
• 1972–74 : Schullin Jewellery shop, Vienna
• 1972–82 : Abteiberg Museum Mönchengladbach
• 1977–78 : Glass and Ceramics house,
  Teheran
  , Iran
• 1979–90 : Ganztagsschule, Vienna
• 1983–85 : Rauchstrasse apartments in Berlin, part of the International Building Exhibition
• 1985–90 :
  Haas-Haus
  in Vienna
• 1987–91 : Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main
• 1989 : Guggenheim ('Museum im Mönchsberg'), Salzburg, Austria (unbuilt)
• 1992–2002 : Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum,
  St. Pölten
  , Austria
• 1994–2000 : Generali Media Tower Donaukanal, Vienna
• 1996–2001 : Austrian Embassy in Berlin
• 1996–2000 : Interbank Headquarters, Lima, Peru
• 1997–2002 : Centrum Bank in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, in collaboration with Bargetze+Partner
• 1997–2002 : Vulcania – European Centre of Vulcanology in Auvergne, France
• 2001–03 :
  Albertina
  Museum extension, Vienna
• 2004–08 :
  Hilton
  hotel, Vienna
• 2004–07 : Sea Mio, Apartment-Towers, Taipei, Taiwan
• 2006–11 : Pezet 515, Lima

• 
  Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany, 1972–82
• 
  Haas-Haus

  in Vienna, 1985–90
• 
  Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, 1983–91
• 
  Austrian Embassy in Berlin, 1996-2001
• 
  Soravia-Wing of the Albertina, Vienna, 2001–03
• 
  Car Building,

  Center for Art and Media

  , Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011

Prizes

• R. S. Reynolds Memorial Award endowed by the American Institute of Architects (1966^[10] and 1984)
• Prize for Architecture of the City of Vienna, (1974)^[11]
• Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture (1983)^[12]
• Pritzker Architecture Prize (1985)
• Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1990)^[13]
• Gold Decoration for Services to Vienna (1994)^[14]
• Grand Merit Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1997)^[14]
• Officer of the Legion of Honour (France, 2003)^[14]
• Honorary Medal of the Austrian capital Vienna in Gold (2004)^[15]
• Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria (2009)^[16]
• Golden Rathausmann (2009)^[15]

References

External links

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• Official website
• Pritzker Prize gallery